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Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 5
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho learns that his mother is expecting a baby, he develops a sympathetic pregnancy--adding to his worry about the burglar who is targeting Concord, Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.
Author
Series
Theo Tan volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Chinese American boy must learn to embrace his heritage and accept his beloved older brother's spirit companion--a mystical fox named Kai--to solve the mystery of Jamie's death.
4) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.
10) New from here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
12) Love, love
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives in the suburbs of Detroit with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness that comes with not quite fitting in. At home, she feels a different kind of aloneness. Her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the help of her friend Annie, Frances is determined to play...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all...
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness"--
Author
Series
Major eights volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anna's friend Andee spearheads a campaign to bring Fan from China to Cincinnati on a year-long cultural exchange, but before Fan even arrives Anna is concerned that Andee and Fan are too different to get along.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 6
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
When second-grader Alvin Ho is invited to a birthday party given by a girl, his fear of everything causes him to dread going.
20) Dumpling days
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma's sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.
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