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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.
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Inkyard Press
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English
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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school, where she’s the only scholarship student in a sea of über-wealthy classmates. But she has a plan: be top of the class, attend a prestigious university, secure a killer job, and finally lift her family out of poverty. Then her parents drop a bomb—they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. But that’s the least of Alice’s problems...
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English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Mysteries [High School Readers]
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Teens
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Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Teens
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"When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death"--
6) I am golden
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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.
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Beaming Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K & 1
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Picture Books
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
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"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"--
9) One hug
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young boy discovers many different kinds of hugs and ways to show love as family members and friends gather to welcome his immigrant relatives from China.
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Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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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.
11) A happy day
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Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.
12) Love, love
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"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...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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.
15) Dumpling days
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English
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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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Pets rule! volume 3
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Despite being warned that kittens are monsters, Ember the Chihuahua (who still aims for world domination) agrees to babysit a family of kittens for three days after the mother cat offers him an army in return.
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Series
Anna Wang books volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
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Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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A Chinese American family prepares for and celebrates the Lunar New Year, in a book that includes endnotes discussing the customs and traditions of the Chinese New Year.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Chinatown. There is so much to see. People practicing tai-chi, shoe cobblers, rows of herbs, outdoor fish markets, and more. And best of all, when the Lunar New Year begins, there's a New Year's Day parade, complete with a lion dance.
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