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61) 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...
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Amy loves craft time at school, but when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don't think it's a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right--none of them feels like hers"--Publisher marketing.
63) Grandpa grumps
Author
Publisher
little bee books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Daisy's grandfather, Yeh-Yeh, visits from China, she does everything she can think of to make him smile and finally finds a way. Includes glossary of Chinese words and recipe for fried rice.
64) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
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
Anna Wang books volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...
69) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Language
English
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.
70) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
71) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
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
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. 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...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First editon.
Language
English
Description
A cutthroat K-pop competition leads to a dark obsession in this twisty horror-romance, perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting "A perfect blend of folk horror and dazzling showbiz that will grip you from page one." ?Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times-bestselling author of She is a Haunting "The sweetest spot between horror and romance." ?Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights You’ll love them to death . . . THEN:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
A big storm is approaching, and Katie, her parents, and all her neighbors head to the grocery store to stock up on necessities--and Katie gets a lesson in smart shopping.
"Se acerca una gran tormenta, Katie, sus padres y todos los vecinos van a la tienda de comestibles para comprar provisiones. En la tienda, Katie aprende una lección sobre cómo ser un comprador responsable"--
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Language
English
Description
"Like many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father’s arrest. Fifteen years later, on the eve of America’s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives...
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English
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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
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Language
English
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Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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