"The class is so quiet you can hear Tina\'s hard shoe soles on the floor.
Told in alternating stories and in the innocent voices of two ten year old girls, Honeysuckle House addresses alienation, longing, prejudice, and cultural differences without ever losing touch with the true preoccupations of childhood..
Andrea Cheng has remained true to the hearts and voices of two ten-year-old girls in this moving story about friendship.
But both of them must come to terms with the changes in their lives--whether they are able to overcome their differences or not.
Thrown together amidst a swirl of problems at home and at school, Sarah and Tina are reluctant to forge a friendship.
In fact, even simple communication is hard for them: Tina\'s English is poor, and Sarah doesn\'t speak a word of Chinese.
Sarah is used to being confused with other Asian students at school, but she doesn\'t want people to assume that she and Tina have a lot in common.
The last thing Sarah needs is to be paired with the new girl at school, Tina, who has just arrived from China.
She still waits for her in the backyard just in case she comes back.
Sisters, they are thinking." Ten-year-old Sarah misses her best friend and neighbor, Victoria, terribly.
Everyone is watching us. "The class is so quiet you can hear Tina\'s hard shoe soles on the floor
