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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
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.
5) Nine dragons
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Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The murder of John Li, a South L.A. liquour store owner, hits LAPD Detective Harry Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. As he uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad--a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.--his world instantly explodes and the person he holds most dear is taken from him.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Genie Lo is one among droves of Ivy-hopeful overachievers in her sleepy Bay Area suburb. You know, the type who wins. When she's not crushing it at volleyball or hitting the books, Genie is typically working on how to crack the elusive Harvard entry code. But when her hometown comes under siege from hellspawn straight out of Chinese folklore, her priorities are dramatically rearranged. Enter Quentin Sun, a mysterious new kid in class who becomes Genie's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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When Genie Lo learns of a cosmos-threatening force while the Jade Emperor is absent, she leads a party of quarrelsome Chinese gods through multiple planes of reality on a quest that will require sacrifice, not strength.
As a Heaven-appointed Guardian, even the well-being of demons in the Bay Area is Genie Lo's responsibility-- and their numbers are multiplying. Guanyin and Quentin are doing their best to help. The Jade Emperor is AWOL, and Genie...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Overview: Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty,...
10) The star fisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920's.
11) The amah
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Amy finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home.
12) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
13) Girl overboard
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age fable follows Yen Tzu-lu, a child of Chinese immigrants whose grandparents send him to help gunslinger Jack Straw and his rag-tag allies in their attempt to find a stolen treasure and right an old wrong.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: To make it through without dying of boredom, to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram, and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying summer internship, and to prove he has what it takes to become an editor on his school paper. Then Jocelyn's...
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