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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 I’m the Leader Chapter 2 Golden Boy Chapter 3 Grandma Nội’s Gifts Chapter 4 Quick to Act Chapter 5 Mid-Autumn Festival Chapter 6 The Trung Aunties Chapter 7 No Girls Allowed Club Chapter 8 One of the Boys Chapter 9 What’s Wrong with Me Chapter 10 All the Ancestors Are in Me Chapter 11 What’s Really Going On Chapter 12 You Okay Chapter 13 So Special 1 8 16 24 33 40 49 56 65 72 80 89 97
CHAPTER 1 I’m the Leader Now what Liz Rohan Best Friend Ever asks me He grabs a handful of ketchup chips I shrug We’re hanging out in my living room It’s the Sunday before school starts and it’s raining It’s so boring being trapped inside Let’s play Trung Warriors I stand up quickly To practice for our first Taekwondo class 1
