Key Player by Kelly Yang review - Mia Tang goes for goal in a timely football drama; Arriving soon after the Lionesses' victory, the fourth book in the Front Desk series has timed its run perfectly, says Alex O'Connell

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  • Author(s): By:Alex O'Connell
  • Source:
    Times, The: Web Edition Articles (London, England), August 13, 2022 saturdayreview, 4pp
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    • Abstract:
      Kelly Yang, a Chinese-American writer, wowed readers with Front Desk , her first book about a girl called Mia Tang, whose family have been hired to manage a motel in California. It conveyed some of the injustices of immigrant life with humour and seriousness and was rightly shortlisted for this year's Waterstones Children's Book prize (although it was first published in 2018)...