In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon; his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything; his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other; he is beginning to notice girls; and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: ethnicity in children, juvenile fiction, jews, united states, chinese americans, families, grandmothers, friendship, ethnicity, fiction, family life, united states, social life and customs, 20th century, juvenile fiction, history, 1945-, fiction, bildungsromans, humorous fiction