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Reader reviewed by Jocelyn

I'm not half Asian, but I am something of a math geek (and one who's not particularly fond of math all the time, like Patty), and, even if you're neither one of those things, you'll be able to relate to this awesome book.

To start the book out, Patty is dragged by her tyrannical Taiwanese mother to a fortune teller who reads not palms, but belly-buttons. This fortune teller predicts, among other things, that there will be a white guy in Patty's future--something that really sets her mother off. Patty is promptly shipped off to Stanford math camp, where, besides math, she has one other school assignment to do. She has to rewrite the "truth statement" about herself that she turned in at the end of the last school year.

Through all of her adventures, including "buildering" (rock-climbing on buildings) with her new friend Jasmine, meeting her Auntie Lu and learning some surprising things about her mother, meeting an Asian guy who STILL isn't what her mother wants for her, and finding out her goody-two-shoes classmate, Anne, is writing a romance novel, Patty learns a lot about herself. She learns even more about herself than she does about other people, which definitely helps a lot with her truth statement.

I really loved this book. It was funny and real, with a main character who speaks to all teenage girls. I definitely reccomend it--read this book!