Each Friday I share the link to a read-aloud preview of a book from SRCSA library. The “First-chapter Friday” selection for May 26, 2023, is The Secret Battle of Evan Pao, by Wendy Wan-Long Shang.
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father’s notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.