This Is Just a Test - Hardcover

Madelyn Rosenberg is the coauthor of This Is Just a Test, a Sydney Taylor Honor Book, and Not Your All-American Girl, which she wrote with Wendy Wan-Long Shang; Dream Boy, cowritten with Mary Crockett; and many books for younger readers, including the How to Behave books and Cyclops of Central Park. She writes books, articles, and essays for children and adults, and lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC. You can visit her online at madelynrosenberg.com.
Wendy Wan-Long Shang is the author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, which was awarded the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature; The Way Home Looks Now, an Amelia Bloomer Project List selection and a CCBC Choices List selection; The Secret Battle of Evan Pao, which received multiple starred reviews; Sydney Taylor Honor Book This Is Just a Test, which she cowrote with Madelyn Rosenberg; and Not Your All-American Girl, a Tablet Magazine Best Children's Book, also cowritten with Madelyn Rosenberg. She lives with her family in the suburbs of Washington, DC.

By the time we got back into the kitchen, the table was set. And when I say set, I mean, set with two complete and separate dinners.The left side of the table was clearly Granny M's dinner: turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, spiced apples, homemade bread, sweet potato soufflé, and green bean casserole. On the right side was Peking Duck with plum sauce and handmade wrappers, eggrolls, a whole steamed fish, and a stir-fry of mixed vegetables. That was Wai Po's.Maybe this was going to be my last Thanksgiving dinner ever. Or anybody's last Thanksgiving dinner. If it was in fact my last Thanksgiving, I supposed I wouldn't want it any other way. I just hoped that they would get along, just this once, so I could have a happy memory.Mom sat down at the table last, even though it didn't look like she got to cook anything on her menu. She took off her apron and pushed hair out of her face. "Why don't you say the blessing over the Thanksgiving dinner, David," she said.Granny M didn't miss a beat. "In Hebrew.""The turkey isn't even kosher," I said."It's still good practice," said my grandmother. What I really wanted to say was, Please, God, don't let the Soviets or my grandmothers blow us up on Thanksgiving Day. But I didn't know how to say that in Hebrew.