Continental Drifter – Kathy MacLeod

Winner of the American Library Association''s Asian/Pacific American Award for ChildrenÂ’s Literature With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where sheÂ’s secretly counting the days till summer vacation. ThatÂ’s when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.Kathy loves MaineÂ’s idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she canÂ’t get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesnÂ’t look like the other kids in thisrural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but sheÂ’s not sure if itÂ’s in America, Thailand . . . or anywhere.