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Making Friends with Billy Wong
- Narrated by: Kate Simses, Todd Haberkorn
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 09-16-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Scholastic Audio
Regular price: $13.29
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A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in 1955 that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South.
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