Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs

When his folks host a Vietnamese family that has come to settle in their town, Harvey enjoys Americanizing twelve-year-old Tuan.

Armed with a stack of adhesive labels, he plasters the kitchen with labels so his new pupil can learn English. He renames the boy Tom Win for junior high and feeds vocabulary drills into the basement computer.

At school, Tuan quickly outscores their seventh-grade classmates in advanced math and teaches playground challengers how to shoot marbles. Yet while Harvey pushes hot dogs and local slang, his guest holds tight to his own family memories.

A nighttime prank with toilet paper at the town pig statue brings the local police to the curb, forcing both boys to reckon with the mess together.
Making Friends: When a bathroom mix-up leads Tuan to mistake a common hair dryer for a laser gun, Harvey realizes that welcoming someone from across the globe takes more patience than he expected.Family Dynamics: While Tuan navigates junior high, his grandmother Ba Noi longs for familiar tastes from home, prompting the boys to search through cookbooks for ingredients like lemon grass and fermented fish sauce.Small-Town Community: From carving an unconventional jack-o'-lantern to building an icy yard dragon with a purple scarf, the neighborhood rallies to make their new guests feel welcome in time for Thanksgiving.Also by This Author: Bug in a Rug, It Goes Eeeeeeeeeeeee! and 4B Goes Wild.