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Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...
4) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
San Fransisco, 1906. Two women hoping to change their fortunes, have their paths cross, when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, whose collection of Chinese antiques include the legendary Phoenix Crown and whose patronage changes the women's lives. When Henry disappears, their lives are thrown into chaos. But when the crown surfaces five years later, the women are brought together in one last quest for justice.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007.
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
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
12) Land of promise
Author
Series
Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
16) Aftershocks
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco from 1903 to 1908, teenager Jessie Wainwright determines to reach her goal of becoming a doctor while also trying to care for the illegitimate child of a liaison between her father and their Chinese maid.
17) Siren queen
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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...
18) Landed
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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