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Continental Drifter: A Graphic Novel

by Kathy MacLeod

Between Bangkok and a Maine seaside town

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Between Bangkok and a Maine seaside town

Kathy MacLeod’s graphic novel draws on the contrast between two places that shape its young protagonist’s life: Bangkok, where she spends most of the year, and a small coastal town in Maine, reached after a long family journey each summer. As Kathy navigates her Thai and American backgrounds, the story connects everyday details—local food, landscape, and the experience of standing apart from other children—to questions of belonging and home. Its cross-cultural perspective gives the book a personal frame for exploring what it can mean to grow up between different communities.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Kids ages 9–12 interested in graphic novels about family and identity.
  • Readers curious about Thai American experiences and life across cultures.
  • Children exploring questions of belonging and feeling different from their peers.

Themes

Growing up between culturesBelonging and identityFamilyHome and place

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Book overview

Winner of the American Library Association's Asian Pacific American Award for Children's Literature

A beautifully layered, award-winning graphic novel about growing up between cultures and the search for a place that feels like home. Perfect for fans of Mexikid and Uprooted!

With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer vacation. That's when her family travels for twenty-four hours straight to finally arrive in a tiny seaside town in Maine.

Kathy loves Maine's idyllic beauty and all the exotic delicacies she can't get back home, like clam chowder and blueberry pie. But no matter how hard she tries, she struggles to fit in. She doesn't look like the other kids in this rural New England town. Kathy just wants to find a place where she truly belongs, but she's not sure if it's in America, Thailand...or anywhere.

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