The Garden of Empress Cassia by Gabrielle Wang
01 Mar, by Australian, Australian Asian, Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers
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At school, 12-year-old Mimi Lu is better known as Smelly-Loo because "[h]er parents forced her to drink all sorts of smelly brews" – concocted by her herbalist doctor father – that lingered on her clothes, pigtails, skin, and even her breath. "[Y]ou are Chinese. Be...