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Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher
2) Finally seen
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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'"--
Author
Series
Daughters of the dynasty volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When budding actress Gemma Huang flies to Beijing to star in a film of M. Butterfly, she is mistaken for a notorious socialite, kicking off a series of revelations her parents had carefully concealed from her.
Gemma Huang's acting career has a big break: she's asked to play a lead role in an update of M. Butterfly filming for the summer in Beijing. At the airport she is stopped by paparazzi, and realizes she may as well be the twin of Alyssa Chua,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese American girl, and Annamae, an African American slave girl, disguise themselves as boys and travel on the Oregon Trail to California from Missouri. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
9) Top story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
Author
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
Author
Series
Genie Lo volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Genie Lo thought she was busy last year, juggling her academic career with protecting the Bay Area from demons. But now, as the Heaven-appointed Guardian of California, she’s responsible for the well-being of all yaoguai and spirits on Earth. Even the ones who interrupt her long-weekend visit to a prestigious college, bearing terrible news about a cosmos-threatening force of destruction in a nearby alternate dimension. The goddess Guanyin and Genie’s...
14) Star of the show
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books/Capstone
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.
15) Scroll
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After learning how to draw Chinese characters, Lulu and her dog Dumpling step into a magical world where the characters come to life.
16) I am golden
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
Author
Series
Zodiac legacy volume 3
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a catastrophe threatens the lives of every Zodiac in the world, sixteen-year-old Steven Lee is forced to decide how far he will go to protect his fellow superpowered friends.
20) Just like me
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
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