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Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true. Includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents' early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Even though Zia loves the Cantonese food her parents prepare at home, she is embarrassed to eat it at school, but when she realizes each meal has a special meaning, she begins to look forward to lunchtime. Includes a recipe for Zia's lucky yi mein.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A Chinese American girl provides rhyming descriptions of the great variety of colors she sees around her, from the red of a dragon, firecrackers, and lychees to the brown of her teddy bear.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change,...
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 6
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho goes on a trip to China with his family.
17) The last dragon
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in Chinatown with his great-aunt, a young boy finds an old ten-man dragon in a shop and gets a number of people to help him repair it.
18) Dragonwings
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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.
19) Convergence
Author
Series
Zodiac legacy volume 1
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of a Chinese-American teen who is thrown into the middle of an epic global chase involving the release of twelve magical superpowers.
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