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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American girl describes the festivities of her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind them.
A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.
7) Finally seen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
10) Good luck, Ivy
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by Chinese all over the world. Danlin's explosive exposes have made him legendary among readers--and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For decades-in China and in San Francisco-Winnie Louie and Helen Kwong have kept each other's confidences, but those secrets are about to be revealed. Convinced that she is dying, Helen decides to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of hidden truths-not only hers, but those of Winnie and of Winnie's daughter, Pearl. So begins a series of comic misunderstandings and heartbreaking realizations about luck, loss, and trust-about the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
16) Too much rain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When heavy rain causes flooding, Katie Woo and her parents spend the night in a shelter.
17) A happy day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.
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