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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent—-and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling and heartfelt novel about the disorientation of grief, the hollowness of the American Dream, and the bravery of rebuilding one's identity, as the remaining daughter of a self-made Chinese-American dynasty sets off across the world to define herself in the wake of her beloved sister's death"--
Author
Series
Teeny Houdini volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bessie Lee goes all out for Valentine's Day in the second book of the Teeny Houdini chapter book series from author Katrina Moore and illustrator Zoe Si. The adventures of Teeny Houdini come in short, easy-to-read chapters full of hilarious illustrations--a favorite series for building confident readers! Bessie is in charge of making an extra-special valentine for the new kid in school. Something big and wonderful to make him feel welcome! Bessie's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital, the daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for Joan and her brother, Fang, then returned to China. Joan's whole life has been about study andwork. She logs excessive hours at the hospital, exhibits little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, and her medical colleagues sometimes resent her, misreading dedication to work as ambition....
Author
Publisher
Talos
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With a rich and inventive historical setting, nonstop martial arts action, authentic Chinese magic, and bizarre monsters from Asian folklore, The Girl with Ghost Eyes is also the poignant story of a young immigrant searching to find her place beside the long shadow of a demanding father and the stigma of widowhood. In a Chinatown caught between tradition and modernity, one woman may be the key to holding everything together.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In A Village With My Name, acclaimed journalist Scott Tong merges memoir and history, offering an account of regular people living through defining moments in modern China from the start of the 20th century to the present, including the toppling of the monarchy, occupation and war crimes during WWII, mass death, famine, and witch hunts under Communism, the secret expansion of prison labor camps, market reforms, and the dawn of the One Child Policy....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ren has always been too little to help make her favorite pineapple cakes for the Lunar New Year, but when her one-of-a-kind brother Charlie arrives for the festivities, with his help, she finally gets her chance. Includes recipe for pineapple cakes.
Author
Series
Winnie Zeng volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Patriarch Leo Chao and his wife, Winnie, have built a successful Chinese restaurant with the help of their three sons and O-Lan, a recent immigrant from Guangzhou who nobody seems to know much about. The Chao family is about to gather for their annual holiday party. Dagou, the oldest son, works for Leo in the hope of eventually taking over the business. Middle son Ming is in New York pursuing a financial career, and the youngest, James, is in college....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie’s growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family’s shared future. What Junie doesn’t know is that her parents, Momo and Cassia, are newly...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence...
15) When the earth dragon trembled: a story of Chinatown during the San Francisco earthquake and fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Han Liu rejects his father's attempts to teach him traditional Chinese values, but when an earthquake and fire strike Chinatown, separating Han from his father, a book of family proverbs is all Han has left to guide him. Includes author's note.
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