Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu

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By Maisie Chan

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Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu follows twelve-year-old Lizzie living in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, who is becoming forgetful and distant. Concerned but unsure how to help, Lizzie balances caring for him with school and daily life. Determined to lift his spirits, she plans a trip to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom—a place dear to Wai Gong’s heart where he once danced with his late wife. With help from friends and family, Lizzie hopes to reignite his passion for dancing and support him through his struggles.
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This warmhearted and humorous tale is ideal for children navigating family challenges, especially those interested in stories about intergenerational relationships and overcoming difficulties. Fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and Benjamin Dean will appreciate this engaging narrative.

Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu

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The new novel from the Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author of DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS

Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad, Wai Gong, and he's been acting a little strange lately. He is becoming forgetful, and spends a lot of time talking to his statue of Guan Yin—the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy. Lizzie is worried about Wai Gong but doesn't really know what to do to help him. She's already got a lot on her plate with caring for him, doing the shopping, and everything else on top of schoolwork and the usual trials of being twelve!

Then Lizzie comes up with a madcap plan. She's going to take Wai Gong on the trip of a lifetime, to Blackpool—to the Tower Ballroom, where he always longed to go, to dance with his late wife, Grandma Kam. To rekindle that love for dancing and to see if Wai Gong can find his mojo again. The only problem is—just how on earth is she going to get him there? With a little help from her friends Chi and Tyler, some ingenious costumes, and an older brother with a beat-up Mini, Lizzie might just make it—and maybe she will be able to help Wai Gong get better after all?

A warmhearted, funny, intergenerational story for fans of Frank Cottrell Boyce and Benjamin Dean.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800781610

Publisher: Templar Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Piccadilly Press

Illustration: None

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 172g

Pages: 240

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Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Maisie Chan Young Adult

About the Author

Maisie Chan is a British-born Chinese author. She has written early reader books for Hachette and a collection of fairy tales, myths and legends in Stories From Around the World for Scholastic, as well as many stories for The Big Think: a well-being curriculum based around stories for primary school children. She also started the group Bubble Tea Writers to support and encourage new British East Asian writers in the UK. Originally from Birmingham, Maisie now lives with her family in Glasgow.