Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu （by Maisie Chan)

描述

12 歲的 Lizzie Chu 與外公 Wai Gong 住在格拉斯哥，外公最近有點怪怪的。他變得健忘，而且花了很多時間跟他的觀音像說話 – 觀音是中國的慈悲、善良和仁慈之神。

Lizzie 很擔心 Wai Gong，但又不知道該怎麼幫他。她已經忙得不可開交，除了要照顧偉公，還要幫他買東西、做其他事情，還要兼顧功課和十二歲時的一般考驗！

Lizzie 想出了一個瘋狂的計劃。她要帶偉功去黑潭，去他一直渴望去的 Tower Ballroom，和他已故的妻子 Grandma Kam 一起跳舞。為了重燃對舞蹈的熱愛，也為了看看偉功是否能找回他的魔力。唯一的問題是 – 她到底要如何把他帶到那裡？

Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, and he’s been acting a little strange lately. He is becoming forgetful, and spends a lot of time talking to his statue of Guan Yin – the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness and mercy.

Lizzie is worried about Wai Gong, but doesn’t really know what to do to help him. She’s already got a lot on her plate with caring for him, doing the shopping and everything else on top of schoolwork and the usual trials of being twelve!

Then Lizzie comes up with a madcap plan. She’s going to take Wai Gong on the trip of a lifetime, to Blackpool – to the Tower Ballroom, where he always longed to go, to dance with his late wife Grandma Kam. To rekindle that love for dancing and to see if Wai Gong can find his mojo again. The only problem is – just how on earth is she going to get him there?

With a little help from her friends Chi and Tyler, some ingenious costumes and an older brother with a beat-up Mini, Lizzie might just make it – and maybe she will be able to help Wai Gong get better after all?