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Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Modern Library trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this rediscovered classic of linked short stories set in San Francisco's Chinatown, Sui Sin Far portrays Chinese immigrants as they fall in love, encounter racism, and wrestle with their new Americanized identities-decades before writers like Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. By turns tender and dramatic, Mrs. Spring Fragrance tells of the Chinese women and men as they confront prejudice and forced detention; choose to assimilate or stay true...
43) Grumpy New Year
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned . . ." -- Adapted from Library of Congress.
44) Crouching tiger
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
A sweeping debut spanning from China to Hawaii that follows four generations of a wealthy shipping family whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love--from a young, powerful new voice in fiction.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When their mother Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door--a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder--twins Milly and Billy are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye"--
Author
Series
Front desk volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While visiting family in China, Mia Tang witnesses some of the big changes the country is going through, which makes her think about the changes in her own life that need to be dealt with.
48) Basta de burlas
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Español
Description
The class bully loves to tease Katie Woo until she decides to ignore him.
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Here?for the first time in one volume?are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines her family?s past and her culture?s stories, weaving myth and memory to fashion works of enormous revelatory power."--Amazon.com.
53) Adi?s a Goldie
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
El d?a que mi perrita, Goldie, se muri? fue el d?a m?s triste de mi vida. Llor? y llor?. Luego mis padres y amigos me ayudaron a recordar a mi perrita. Fue bueno poder somre?me otra vez, aun cuando todav?a me sent?a triste.
54) The lies we tell
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"During her freshman year at college, Anna Xu investigates the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter, as she and an old rival have to team up to look into the hate crimes happening around campus"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
Author
Series
Infinity Rainbow Club volume 2
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Violet navigates her OCD while volunteering at the local natural history museum.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At the news of her mothers death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadnt spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Franciscos Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. Shes even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmothers restaurant....
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume Prequel
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Follows perceptive, astute Anna as she strives to grow a perfect garden -- only to realize that the garden she grows with her new friend is more than good enough, weeds and all"--
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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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.
60) The fortunes
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. The Fortunes uses this history from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls to create a portrait of a community...
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