Navigating Night

2026凱迪克銀牌得主新作。不得不跟著父親送外賣的夜晚，是女孩最厭煩的事。卻也因此有機會了解父親和家族的故事。

每天晚上，小女孩都必須幫爸爸開車送外送，因為她的英文比爸爸好。女孩坐在副駕駛座，一邊研究地圖，一邊用粵語為爸爸導航，指引他前往這家小小家族餐廳的各個送餐地點。
然而她內心其實非常排斥這份工作。她討厭提著沾滿油漬、裝著「蒙古牛」和「蘑菇雞片」的紙盒送到客人家門口；她討厭自己與那些門後的孩子如此不同。

她不停地自問：為什麼我的家人不能像其他人一樣「正常」呢？
直到有一天，爸爸向她訴說了自己青少年時期如何隻身一人移民美國的艱辛往事。那一刻，女孩終於開始理解爸爸的勇氣，並由衷感激爸爸是如何用汗水為她開拓了這段在美國成長的生命可能。

A girl guides her dad on his route delivering Chinese take-out food in this touching picture book, written by an APALA-award winner, that celebrates the unique bond between immigrant parents and their children.

Every night, a girl must help her dad, whose English is not as good as hers, make deliveries for their small family restaurant. Sitting next to him in the car, she studies a map and gives him directions in Cantonese. She helps him get to the places he needs to go.

She hates doing this, though. Hates carrying grease-stained boxes of Mongolian beef and moo goo gai pan to customers' doors. Hates being different from the kids behind these doors. Why can't her family be normal like everyone else's?

But when her dad tells her about how he immigrated, all alone as a teenager, to the United States, she comes to better understand him, and appreciate how he has made her American life possible.