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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
4) The comeback
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave...
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Language
English
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What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year...
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Language
English
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"An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women in New York City"--
Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth--another female casualty of China's controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock...
9) Memory piece
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after...
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Publisher
Islandport Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Marpheen Chan was born in 1991 to a Cambodian mother who fled from the atrocities of the Cambodian genocide and the Khmer Rouge to the United States. Born in San Diego, he moved to Maine when he was only 4 years old, and soon found himself-and his siblings-taken into custody by Maine DHHS and put into foster care. This is his coming-of-age story as a Cambodian boy living in a nearly all-white state, and his coming-out story as a gay man raised by...
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