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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
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's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address"--
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family's Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as this dream crumbles. Beneath Atlantic City's promise lies...
Author
Series
Winnie Zeng volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Armed with her fledgling powers, a magic cookbook, and the mentorship of a talking rabbit, sixth-grader Winnie Zeng must embrace her heritage and the powers of her ancestors to save her town from an evil spirit of Chinese legend.
146) Boxers
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers - commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils." Against all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful. But nothing is simple. Little Bao is fighting for the glory of China, but at what...
148) This time it's real
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her international school in Beijing, she has to make a deal with the handsome and charming Caz Song to play the part--but when the relationship starts to feel real all her career plans are suddenly threatened.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books / Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The memoir of a young diplomat's wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris-one dish at a time When journalist Ann Mah's diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long post-alone. Suddenly, Ann's vision of a romantic sojourn in the City of Light is turned...
150) Finally seen
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
151) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amy Wu loves to move, so when she sees Chinese ribbon dancing for the first time, she has to try it out, but first she must find the perfect ribbon.
153) Piper Chen sings
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Piper is offered a solo at her school's Spring Sing, she must overcome her stage fright to put on an unforgettable performance.
155) Ship of fates
Author
Publisher
Lanternfish Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard this red-lit ship, the fates of two young women will b altered irrevocably and tied forever to that of an ancient lighthouse keeper who longs to be free."--
156) Laolao's dumplings
Author
Publisher
Goodwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Millie makes a special batch of dumplings filled with love that Laolao will never forget after she falls ill"--
157) Love, Love
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In this beautiful novel in verse, a Chinese-American girl contends with school bullies, tries to solve the mystery of her sister's strange illness, and finds strength and validation at the local tennis court.
158) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans's mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move—and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he's from Asia, he must have brought over...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po PanYin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
Author
Series
Library of America volume 355
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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