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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
222) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat Taipei volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission...
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
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin'sancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--
"A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.
227) A line in the dark
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death"--
Author
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a picture book biography of Yo-Yo Ma, one the world's most renowned and celebrated cellists who, staying true to himself, performed at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019, proving that it is possible to build bridges between different cultures.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Just before Chinese New Year, Dandan discovers that her family is moving to America, far away from her best friend Yueyue; before they leave Yueyue gives her a stack of red paper and a spool of string so she can share the art of paper cutting with Americans--and when Chinese New Year comes around again Dandan remembers Yueyue's gift and introduces her new friend Christina to this ancient art.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
234) Chasing secrets
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
235) Landed
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After leaving his village in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held at Angel Island, San Francisco, before being released to join his father, a merchant living in the area. Includes historical notes.
237) Child of the owl
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1977]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...
240) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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