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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace's understanding. Shawn...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When Sunny Song accidentally films a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate), she is shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a way back online. Thanks to some unexpected friendships, Sunny might be surprised by the connections she makes when she is forced to disconnect....
6) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is anxious for his family’s future.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats. In While Time Remains, Park sounds the alarm for Americans by highlighting the dangerous...
13) Meant to be
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In spite of a newfound faith, sixteen-year-old Kim Peterson faces a dreary Christmas and New Year because her mother has been diagnosed with cancer.
14) Falling up
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Dealing with her grief over her mother's recent death and major problems her family and friends are facing cause Kim so much stress she even finds it hard to pray, but things improve when she really starts to "let go and let God."
15) The name jar
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
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Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Author
Series
Mindy Kim volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mindy is excited to go to the Lunar New Year parade in her new town with her father and her friend Sally.
17) Anna K away
Author
Series
Anna K volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
How the mighty have fallen. Anna K, once the golden girl of Greenwich, CT, and New York City, has been brought low by a scandalous sex tape and the tragic death of her first love, Alexia Vronsky. At the beginning of the summer, her father takes her to the other side of the world, to connect with his family in South Korea and hide her away. Is Anna in exile? Or could this be her chance to figure out who she really is? Back in the U.S., Lolly has forgiven...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, teens Lucky, a very famous K-pop star, and Jack, a part-time paparazzo who is trying to find himself, fall for each other against the odds through the course of one stolen day.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Albert Kim sees it as a miracle that popular, beautiful Mia Stone finds him worthy of her attention, but when her ex, Ryan Stackhouse, announces he has cancer, Mia is torn between being there for Ryan and her feelings for Albert.
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