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Front Desk is a middle grade book written by Kelly Yang and published by Scholastic in 2018. Yang's debut book is about ten-year-old Mia Tang and her family who, after a couple years struggling financially, are hired to manage a motel. It is the first book in the 5-part series. The family is hired by the owner of the Calivista, Mr. Yao.
Kelly Yang (born August 29, 1984) is an Asian American writer and author of young adult and children's literature. She won the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature of her novel, Front Desk and the 2018 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal for Fiction for her book Front Desk, a book based on her experiences as a 10-year-old working at her family's motel business.
"Front Desk," the award-winning middle-grade debut novel of Kelly Yang, was reportedly being read aloud in a fifth-grade classroom of the Plainedge School District last week when an administrator ...
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Mr. Sakurakouji (妖の父, Yao no Chichi) Voiced by: Shingo Horii (Japanese); Scott Bailey (English) He is the mysterious father of Yao and doesn't want her to be in the Miami City Police. He'll become angry at Yao from time to time, usually either because of her money problems or because the city is being destroyed because of something she did.
In 1985, Yao played the role of Shinobu Fujiwara in the TV anime series Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God. This is the series that Yao considers most memorable, and he says it was the show that made him understand what it meant to play an anime character. [5] In addition, Shinobu's line, "I'll do it!" (やってやるぜ！, Yatte yaruze!
I. Y. Yunioshi is a fictional character in Blake Edwards's 1961 American romantic comedy film Breakfast at Tiffany's, which George Axelrod adapted for the movie based on the 1958 novella of the same title by Truman Capote.
Marcel Lam as Bernard Yao, an Asian student and Corleone student who bullied Chris, Greg, Caruso and Caruso's friends and beats Caruso and Caruso's friends up using martial arts. Bernard refuses to take Caruso's place as the school bully which causes anarchy in the school. Chris convinces Bernard to fight Caruso again and lose on purpose. Later ...