Pippa Park Raises Her Game

Name: Pippa Park Raises Her Game
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Erin Yun
ISBN: 9781666180084

Author: Erin Yun

Series: Pippa Park Raises Her Game #1

Narrator: Jennifer Sun Bell

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/25/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Sports Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Listeners will cheer on Pippa Park in this wonderful middle school book about friendships, bullying, crushes, and family. In this relatable story, Pippa reinvents herself and discovers who she really is on and off the basketball court.

Life is full of great expectations for Korean-American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look.

When Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself. At school, Pippa juggles old and new friends, a crush, and the pressure to get As and score points while keeping her past and family's laundromat a secret from her elite new classmates.

But when Pippa begins to receive a string of hateful, anonymous messages via social media, her carefully built persona is threatened. As things spiral out of control, Pippa wonders if she can keep her old and new lives separate, or if she should even try.

About Erin Yun

Erin Yun grew up in Frisco, Texas. She received her BFA in English from New York University and is currently pursuing her Masters in creative writing at Cambridge. Erin is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She developed the Pippa Park Author Program, an interactive writing workshop, which she has conducted in person and virtually at schools, libraries, and bookstores. Yes, she used to play basketball as a middle grader!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on September 23, 2024

I'm fairly disappointed with this book in that I was hoping I'd found THE ONE for my niece. But the content is more appropriate for someone older. I also really wished the storyline was framed by something other than the mean girls trope. I really hate that, especially girls so young. We need to be......more

Goodreads review by Kailey (Luminous Libro) on December 11, 2019

When Pippa Park gets a basketball scholarship to a fancy private school, she feels pressured to pretend like she's rich and cool so that she can fit in with her elite classmates. But how long can she keep up the farce, when her Korean family owns a laundromat and Pippa barely has money to buy a slic......more

Goodreads review by Rosemary on August 26, 2019

Korean-American seventh grader Pippa Park's is a juggler: living with her older sister and brother-in-law, rather than her Mom, in Korea, she juggles the weight of their expectations; she juggles her responsibilities at home and school, and she juggles schoolwork with her first love, basketball. She......more

Goodreads review by Darla on February 05, 2020

Pippa Park is a plucky heroine and I love having a new middle grade novel with basketball and Korean culture for readers. Pippa is awarded a scholarship to an elite school with the condition that she keep her GPA at 3.0 and above. Immediately she feels the pressure in keeping up with practice, homew......more

Goodreads review by Karen on November 28, 2019

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Pippa is a likable character, as is her friend Buddy. Her struggles to fit in at a new school are authentic as are the situations she experiences. I liked that some of the students at the expensive private school were portrayed as kind and true friends as well, dispe......more