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The Gold-threaded Dress by Marsden, Carolyn is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Gold-threaded Dress about?

A young girl from Thailand finds that there are many shades to being American in this poignant story about longing to belong. In Thailand she was named Oy, but here in America the teachers call her Olivia. Other things are not so easy to change, however. When Oy draws a self-portrait that has brown hair and eyes round as coins, her classmate Frankie makes fun and calls her Chinese. And the popular girl, Liliandra, barely speaks to her, until she learns that Oy has something very a Thai dancing dress from her grandmother, shimmering with pink silk and golden threads that make her look like a princess. Will Oy risk shaming her family to win Liliandras approval - and be part of the club she has envied from afar? With compassion and rare insight, Carolyn Marsden tells a simple tale about a young girl who searches for acceptance in a complex culture, while learning to treasure all that she is.

Author

Marsden, Carolyn

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780763629939

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Juvenile

Rating

3.74 / 5 (176 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14