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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known...
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit—revealing deep wounds and profound hopes. Over the
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who is telling the story. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. Nearly forty years later, one of the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Genie Lo learns of a cosmos-threatening force while the Jade Emperor is absent, she leads a party of quarrelsome Chinese gods through multiple planes of reality on a quest that will require sacrifice, not strength.
As a Heaven-appointed Guardian, even the well-being of demons in the Bay Area is Genie Lo's responsibility-- and their numbers are multiplying. Guanyin and Quentin are doing their best to help. The Jade Emperor is AWOL, and Genie...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
7) Noteworthy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays at her exclusive performing arts school, Jordan Sun, junior, auditions for an all-male octet hoping for a chance to perform internationally.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
11) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Slave
Description
"Gene understands stories - comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making....
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