Kelly Yang

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Kelly Yang

Kelly Yang is the New York Times best-selling author of Front Desk, winner of the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature, Three Keys, the sequel to Front Desk, Room To Dream, and the young adult novel Parachutes. Front Desk also won the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal, was the 2019 Global Read Aloud, and has earned numerous other honors including being named a best book of the year by Amazon, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and NPR. Kelly is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.

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