Miss Fortune Cookie

Children's Book and Media Review Volume 37 Issue 4 April 2016 Article 16 2016 Miss Fortune Cookie Aylea Stephens Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Stephens, Aylea (2016) "Miss Fortune Cookie," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. 37 : Iss. 4 , Article 16. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol37/iss4/16 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Children's Book and Media Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact . Stephens: Miss Fortune Cookie Book Review Title: Miss Fortune Cookie Author: Lauren Bjorkman Reviewer: Aylea Stephens Publisher: Henry Hold Publication Year: 2012 ISBN: 9780805089516 Number of Pages: 276 Interest Level: Young Adult Rating: Excellent Review Erin desperately wants to be Chinese because of how many Chinese friends she has, so she secretly runs a popular advice blog called Miss Fortune Cookie. When one of her best friends sends a letter to the blog and then acts on the advice, Erin feels like she needs to fix what happens afterward. As she and her friends are dealing with romance, parents, and choosing which college to go to after they graduate, Erin has to learn how to delicately give advice when she herself doesn’t always know the right answers of what she should do. One of the highlights of the book is the challenges of dealing with threesome friendships, especially when some of the friends have had a more difficult relationship in the past. It also talks a lot about the challenges of making college plans and leaving the people you love behind, Chinese culture, and relationships of mothers and their daughters. In many ways, it is a typical high school senior kind of story, but the culture issues, relationships, and humor of the book make it stand out as a sweet, clever story. *Mentions of sex, getting fake IDs to go to a bar (although no one drinks underage). Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016 1  (...truncated)