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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
“ The Bonesetters Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.” Los Angeles Times “TAN AT HER BEST . . . Rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.” San Francisco...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an 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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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. Then Jocelyn's father tells her their family restaurant...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
For readers of Amy Tan's bestselling novel, The Valley of Amazement, and her new memoir, Where the Past Begins, revisit her classic tale of mothers and daughters. Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope,...
Author
Series
Genie Lo novels volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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2022 ALA Youth Media Awards
AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Teens
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Description
When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of being haunted by his family’s past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents’ expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended...
10) Learning to fly
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jason, a recent immigrant from China, makes some bad decisions as he comes to terms with small-town racism while trying to fit in.
11) Girl overboard
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
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.
12) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
c2011
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.
Author
Series
Genie Lo novels volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genies every waking thought. But when she discovers shes a celestial spirit whos powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is shattered. Enter Quentin, a transfer student from China whose tone-deaf assertiveness beguiles Genie to the brink of madness. Quentin nurtures Genies outrageous transformationsometimes gently, sometimes...
16) The dungeon
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Driven by his grief over the loss of his family and by his longing for adventure, Bruce MacLennan sets out from Scotland for China, where he buys a young girl, who tries to ease his pain but instead is caught up in his desire for vengance.
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2009.
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
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
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still,...
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