Private Label

Written by Kelly Yang

Narrated by Natalie Naudus and David Lee Huynh

The Devil Wears Prada meets Far from the Tree in New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang’s powerful love story about two teens searching for their place in the world.

Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom’s, but for now she’s an intern at her mom’s fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother’s business overnight while trying to figure out what happened with her dad in Beijing. He left before she was born, and Serene wants to find him, even if it means going against her mom’s one request—never look back.

Lian Chen moved from China to Serene’s mostly white Southern California beach town a year ago. He doesn’t fit in at school, where kids mispronounce his name. His parents don’t care about what he wants to do—comedy—and push him toward going to MIT engineering early. Lian thinks there’s nothing to stick around for until one day he starts a Chinese Club after school . . . and Serene walks in.

Worlds apart in the high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian soon find refuge in each other, falling in love as they navigate life-changing storms.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

* Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection *

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
• Release date: May 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9780063250222

Kelly Yang

Kelly Yang is the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk (winner of the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature), Parachutes, Three Keys, Room to Dream, New from Here, Finally Seen, and Finally Heard. Front Desk also won the Parents’ Choice Gold Medal, was the 2019 Global Read Aloud, and has earned numerous other honors including being named a best book of the year byThe Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and NPR. Learn more at KellyYang.com. 

Reviews for Private Label

[Victoria Edelsbrunner · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A good book with some important themes but also quite devastating to read. Don't expect a light and easy read here. Some heavy topics are covered.

[Dri Sloan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was very good you should read it, it is funny sad and someother different amotions