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Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Amy Wu loves to move, so when she sees Chinese ribbon dancing for the first time, she has to try it out, but first she must find the perfect ribbon.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kathleen Cheng has gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she's back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what's next. She finds her mother has been transformed by love: the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, and planning a wedding to a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur. Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. An...
5) The fortunes
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Inhabiting four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures over a century of our history through the immigrant family experience"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
During the gold rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic self.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie's birthday is tomorrow, but she just cannot wait to find out what her present will be, so she and Pedro follow Katie's parents as they go shopping, but none of the places they stop seem present-worthy--Katie is disappointed, but when she gets home a big surprise is waiting for her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jin Wang starts at a new school where he's the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn't want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he's in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great at basketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee's annual visit is such a disaster that it ruins Danny's reputation at...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
13) Live in infamy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost -- and the promise of a new friend -- help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
17) Summer at Squee
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tween Phoenny Fang attends a Chinese cultural overnight camp where she explores new friendships and first crushes and discovers a deeper understanding of her community.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"When a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese moves to Emma Fong's mining town of La Porte, California, she'll have to rely on her wits and the strength of her people to survive his anti-Asian prejudice and stake her claim as an American in the Wild West"--
19) I Am Golden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
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