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41) Hot pot night
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
In this version of the classic tale, nobody in the apartment building has enough ingredients for dinner--so a child suggests that they have a community hot pot night. Everybody contributes something, bringing their diverse community together for a delicious meal. Includes a recipe for hot pot.-- Provided by Publisher.
42) Finally seen
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
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.
43) 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.
45) Rainbow shopping
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Shopping for and preparing a delicious meal helps a young Chinese American girl feel connected to her family.
46) I am golden
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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
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
Language
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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Description
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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.
52) Rainbow Fair
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Chinese American Sophie learns about her Muslim identity for the school cultural fair while juggling expectations from her family and friends.
53) Chasing secrets
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who's hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that's spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Description
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.
55) Only one year
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Sharon has conflicted feelings towards her copycat little sister and rambunctious toddler brother, who is sent to China for a year to live with relatives.
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.
57) Tofu takes time
Author
Publisher
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
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"-- Provided by publisher.
58) Grandpa grumps
Author
Publisher
Little Bee
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Daisy's grandfather, or Yeh-Yeh, visits from China, she does everything she can think of to make him smile and finally finds a way. Includes glossary of Chinese words and recipe for fried rice.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
When Jade Moon, born in the unlucky year of the Fire Horse, and her father immigrate to America in 1923 and are detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, Jade Moon is determined to find a way through and prove that she is not cursed.
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