02459cam a2200481 i 4500 2141732804 TxAuBib 20250421120000.0 250228s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024006160 9781728493213 hbk. 1728493218 hbk. (OCoLC)1513516844 TxAuBib rda Liu, Jennie, 1971-, author. The red car to Hollywood / Jennie Liu. ©2025. Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, 2025. 245 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Los Angeles, 1924, Sixteen-year-old Ruby Chan considers herself a modern, independent American girl. But when her secret relationship with a white boy implodes- and then is revealed to her very traditional Chinese parents- she's in a tough spot. Horrified that Ruby's reputation is at risk, her parents hire a matchmaker to find her a Chinese husband. Ruby is determined to foil their plans. But how? Meanwhile, Ruby meets the nineteen-year-old film star Anna May Wong, one of her neighbors in LA's Chinatown. The girls quickly strike up a friendship. Anna May defies Chinese convention by working as an actress on the silver screen, and she scoffs at white people's assumptions about her. If she can forge her own path, surely Ruby can too. Not everything is as it seems, though. Danger and betrayal lurk amidst the new possibilities. To build the life she wants, Ruby will have to contend with how others see her--and decide if she's ready to truly see herself. 20250425. Wong, Anna May 1905-1961. Actresses Juvenile fiction. Chinese Americans Juvenile fiction. Chinese Americans Fiction. Families Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Friendship Fiction. Actors and actresses Fiction. Family Life Fiction. Interracial couples Fiction. Interracial couples. Historical. Asian American. Asian Americans Fiction. Asian Americans. Historical fiction 20th Century. Historical fiction. BTCLS