Characters use insults such as 'booger,' 'stupid,' 'crap,' 'darn,' 'heck,' 'shut up,' and 'fudge. Jingwen has trouble fitting in at school, and kids make fun of him because he can't speak English. One fight results in a character getting stitches. The brothers use the oven to bake cakes while their mom is at work, and they sometimes fight with each other.

The book delicately handles Jingwen's grief and the sense of guilt he feels over his dad's death while highlighting the importance of communication when coping with loss. In this graphic/prose hybrid novel, 12-year-old Jingwen, his little brother, Yanghao, and their mother immigrate to Australia. The family is Chinese, but the country they've come from is never specified. 1 PIE IN THE SKY by Remy Lai illustrated by Remy Lai RELEASE DATE: Two brothers navigate a new country, a new language, and grief through cake. Parents need to know that Remy Lai's Pie in the Sky is a moving illustrated middle-grade novel about 11-year-old Jingwen's experience moving to a new country and learning English, and his cake-baking adventures with his little brother. Jingwen said that his dad's cakes are cheap and he wanted his family to buy a cake for his birthday party. Fox, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nutella, Honda, and Macca's. In her hilarious, emotional middle-grade debut, Remy Lai delivers a scrumptious combination of vibrant graphic art and pitch-perfect writing that will appeal to fans of Real Friends.Pop culture and brands mentioned include The Little Prince, The Three Little Pigs, Fantastic Mr. As Jingwen and Yanghao bake elaborate cakes, they’ll have to cook up elaborate excuses to keep the cake making a secret from Mama. 2020 Surviving the Wild: Rainbow the Koala. Though repetition of facts and dialogue (including the brothers penchant for calling each another 'Booger') at times thwarts the narrative flow.

The only problem is his mother has laid down one major rule: the brothers are not to use the oven while she’s at work. 'Pie in the Sky is like enjoying a decadent cake.

To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly passed away.

School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn’t speak English, and he’s often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he’s landed on Mars. A poignant, laugh-out-loud illustrated middle-grade novel about an eleven-year-old boy’s immigration experience, his annoying little brother, and their cake-baking hijinks! Sometimes life isn’t a piece of cake.

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