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1) Siren queen
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill-but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Tou Yang's football team plays the team from his former school, where he was picked on for being small, he struggles to remain focused and use his skills against Darren, who still wants to bully him.
5) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans-a favorite Chinese food-growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Description
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
9) Later, Gator
Author
Series
Teddy books (Laurence Yep) volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother Bobby an alligator for his birthday.
12) A nervous night
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Katie, her parents, and friends celebrate Independence Day with a parade, games, a picnic, and fireworks, the few things that go wrong do not interfere with their fun.
16) The big lie
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.
19) Best season ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history.
1938, China. With the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a beautifully illustrated hand scroll, filled with ancient fables...
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