{"id":19149,"date":"2024-10-02T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19149"},"modified":"2025-01-09T08:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:49:28","slug":"emi-pinto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/emi-pinto\/","title":{"rendered":"Emi Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Emi Pinto is an Ottawa-based writer of mixed South Asian and Franco-Ontarian heritage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bee Bakshi and the Gingerbread Sisters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: HarperCollins, 2023.
PZ7.1.P56 B44 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bee wanted to spend the summer reading Betsy Chillers books and exploring the new spooky theme park with her best friend. Instead, she\u2019s spending the summer trapped at Storm Lake with her too loud, too thrifty, and too Indian family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, Bee finds a place to escape her embarrassment\u2014a magical house across the lake that transforms her into the cool girl she always wanted to be. Maybe cottage life isn\u2019t so bad after all! But strange dreams are haunting Bee, and there\u2019s a chill in her bones she just can\u2019t shake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee follows her hunch\u2014and the scent of gingerbread\u2014to Lucas, the dorky boy next door. He thinks there are ghosts in the forest, but new friend Alina tells her what Bee has feared all along: There\u2019s a witch at Storm Lake. And she\u2019s coming for Bee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2024 Jean Little First-Novel Award<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chai Jinxed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: HarperCollins, 2024.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

All it took was one majestic frog and a love brew gone wrong\u2014and faster than you can say ribbit<\/em>, Misha got expelled…again. Things aren\u2019t much better back home. A rival tea shop opens across the street, and rumors spread that the Dayaans’ tea is cursed. Determined to fix her family\u2019s reputation, Misha\u2019s only got one option left: attend the infamous Margaret\u2019s Academy of Tea and Brewing and brew her way to the top of her class\u2014even if it means a little bit of spice sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when Misha finds herself up against the girl from the tea shop across the street and things start going wrong\u2014ghostly tea leaves, living scarecrows, and rumors of missing tea witches\u2014Misha starts to realize the truth: she\u2019s jinxed. And if she can\u2019t turn her luck around, her family tea shop, her classmates\u2014and even all of Margaret\u2019s Academy\u2014will have a fate worse than cold tea. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Emi Pinto personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher HarperCollins Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emi Pinto is an Ottawa-based writer of mixed South Asian and Franco-Ontarian heritage. Fiction (Juvenile) Bee Bakshi and the Gingerbread Sisters New York: HarperCollins, 2023.PZ7.1.P56 B44 2023 Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) Bee wanted to spend the summer reading Betsy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19552,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19149\/revisions\/19552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}