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101) Best season ever
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.
102) Skunk scout
Author
Series
Teddy books (Laurence Yep) volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Teddy is not thrilled with the present his uncle gives him for his tenth birthday--a camping trip for him and his younger brother--but on his first outing away from San Francisco's Chinatown, Teddy learns some interesting facts about nature, about his uncle, and about himself.
103) Katie's new shoes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Katie outgrows her shoes, she and her friends JoJo and Pedro go to the shoe store with their mothers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
105) A scatter of light
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
106) The tricky tooth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Katie is the only one in her class who has not lost a tooth, but despite all of her efforts, her wiggly tooth refuses to come out.
107) A happy day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A 100th anniversary tribute chronicles the inspiring true story of a Chinese-American trail cook whose resourcefulness during a historical camping venture in the Sierras safeguarded a team of influential writers, tycoons, politicians and celebrities who later founded the National Park Service. --Publisher.
109) Tofu takes time
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Lin makes tofu with her grandma and discovers that patience brings a whole universe together in a simple dish made by a modern Chinese American family"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Appears on list
Description
At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's...
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
113) Nurse Kenji rules!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Katie Woo and her parents help their new neighbor, Mr. Kenji, to prepare for his final test to become a nurse.
114) On such a full sea
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class--descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China--find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Catherine Ling was abandoned in the streets of Hong Kong at the age of four, and was schooled in the art of survival. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of the mysterious Hu Chang - a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and is now one of their most effective operatives. Then her old friend Hu Chang creates something deadly and completely untraceable - and the chase is on to be the first to get...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Elizabeth Chen's ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if derelict community center down the block, the new owners don't look like typical New York City buyers. Brendan Lee and Darcy Wong are good Chinese boys with Hong Kong money. Clean-cut and charismatic, they say they are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood. To Elizabeth, that only means one thing: Darcy is looking to give the center an uptown makeover. Elizabeth is...
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Tells the story of the author's great-aunt Chang Yu-i, a woman who challenged Chinese tradition by refusing to have her feet bound, marrying and divorcing preeminent poet Hsu Chih-mo, and running the Shanghai Women's Savings Bank during the 1930s.
118) Across a green ocean
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Captures the struggle of the immigrant experience through one Chinese-American family's hidden history and unspoken hurts, exploring the universal themes of identity, family, and finding a place to call home.
119) Friends in the mail
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a trip to the post office to mail a present to her grandfather, Katie learns all about how the mail works.
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