The story follows Ly-Lyan, an eight year old who is soon to be a third grader. Ly-Lyan is a curious girl and loves to know more about the culture and traditions of Vietnam, her grandmother's place.

She is exciting to begin new class with her best friend but it was too soon to celebrate. Cece and Ly-Lyan get different classes and a new girl joins the school who happens to be her seatmate. Then Ly-Lyan dies everything from prayers to writing a letter to the principal however things happens just as it was supposed to happen.

The narrator did a commendable job in bringing out the emotions of the characters. The author's writing style and creativity is definitely mesmerizing. The themes of friendship, creativity, warmth, comfort, new changes and happiness are well explored. Ly-Lyan's character will definitely resonate deeply with the children who have similar feelings like having your best friend who has other best friends, decisions and actions of new beginnings and other.

"The more the merrier." That's the moral of the story.

This Christian-based story is about the perserverance of a young Vietnamese girl. I loved how they intertwined the languague into the heart of the story. Super sweet, and a wonderful story for kids.

The narrator was also very bright voiced and refreshing.