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  • Super Boba Café (Super Boba Cafe #1)

Super Boba Café
(Super Boba Cafe #1)

Author
Publication Date
October 24, 2023
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
Super Boba Café (Super Boba Cafe #1)

Description

First in a series, Nidhi Chanani's Super Boba Café is a sweet and magical middle-grade, full-color graphic novel about a secret teashop, an earthquake-causing monster, and an unforgettable summer.

In the fog-laden hills of San Francisco sits a sleepy independent boba café. Run by Jing Li and guarded by her kitty, Bao, it comfortably fades into the background. But inside the boba café, there's a secret. Jing is the keeper of the monster of San Francisco. Each day she prepares one giant boba for nine hours to feed it.

When Jing's granddaughter, Aria, comes to stay with her for the summer, she makes it her mission to turn the café around. Aria is quickly aided by Bao, who gives birth to eight perfect kittens. Aria spreads the news of the boba cat café on social media and overnight it is overrun with excited customers. Each day Nainai Li (Grandma Li) finds reasons to close the café, but the demand only increases.

When she opens, the hill monster is left hungry and small earthquakes begin to plague the city. When Aria secretly follows her nainai to the hill monster's cave, she isn't sure what awaits. Will Aria be able to reason with the monster, or will she become its new favorite meal? Or might she disturb its underground existence and cause the Big One?

Publication date
October 24, 2023
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781419759574
Publisher
Amulet Books
Series
Super Boba Café
BISAC categories
JUV037000 - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic
JUV011020 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Asian American
JUV008070 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Fairy Tales, Folklore, Legends & Mythology

Kirkus

Refreshing and filled with charm.

Nidhi Chanani
Nidhi Chanani likes to dream kind and creative dreams. She's the author of the graphic novel Pashmina and the bilingual board book Shubh Raatri Dost/Good Night Friend, as well as the illustrator of the picture book I Will Be Fierce. Nidhi draws and dreams in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, child, and cat. Find more of her work at everydayloveart.com.