Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream, 4th grade

Clara Lee and the Apple Pie Dream
by Jenny Han

Clara Lee.
First and last name.
Everytime.
Everyday.
By everyone at school.

Clara Lee is Korean American and lives with her parents, Korean grandfather and sister.  Grandpa calls Clara, Clara-yah, because in Korean when you add the 'yah' it is like saying--hey there Clara...showing how close you feel to someone.  It is very evident Clara has a close connection to her grandpa.  You learn that whenever Clara has an interesting or scary dream she tells her Grandpa before anyone else, because her Grandpa is a dream genius. 

So when she dreams that her Grandpa dies, she is afraid to tell him the dream...afraid it may come true.  Because of her little sister she is coerced to share the dream--and thankfully she does, because she discovers that a death dream is actually good luck!

And what good luck she discovers!! So much that she decides she will enter the Little Miss Apple Pie contest...but does she win?
Read the book to find out!