Emily Woo Zeller
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Language
English
Description
A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
2) Those girls
Author
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes, the Campbell sisters, who once lived on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they worked hard and tried to stay out of the way of their father's fists, are forced to confront a horrific event from their past that left them with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.
3) Bottomland
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Language
English
Description
A German family in the Iowa plains tries to fight the rising tide of anti-German sentiment in the years following World War I while searching for their two youngest daughters who vanished suddenly in the middle of the night.
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo: the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all.
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of...
ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE—CNN
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of...
Author
Series
Poppy war volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An epic military fantasy, inspired by the violent history of twentieth-century China, follows the efforts of an unlikely war orphan to obtain an education at Nikan's most elite military school in spite of prejudice and the challenges of her lethal shaman skills.
Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his difficulties with processing emotions complicate the search for his bride, a Vietnamese-American on the autism spectrum is pursued by a hopelessly smitten girl from the Ho Chi Min City slums after his mother offers to arrange a marriage.
Author
Series
Six crimson cranes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The exiled Princess Shiori must unravel the curse that turned her six brothers into cranes, and she is assisted by her spurned betrothed, a capricious dragon, and a paper bird brought to life by her own magic.
9) The leavers
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When his undocumented immigrant mother disappears, eleven-year-old Deming Guo is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Genius fugitive Charlie Thorne is approached by a mysterious woman who gives her a code linking Charles Darwin to a hidden treasure in South America.
Author
Series
Poppy war volume 2
Language
English
Description
Shaman-warrior Rin is haunted by personal demons, including the choice she made to save her people, an atrocity that compels a precarious alliance to defeat the Empress.
13) Ash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
14) Prairie lotus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves.
17) The bone witch
Author
Series
Bone witch volume 1
Language
English
Description
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, Korean-American Clara bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother.
19) Markswoman
Author
Series
Asiana volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mentor mysteriously dies, Kyra, an elite warrior Markswoman, finds herself on the run from the dangerous Mistress of Mental Arts and heads into the unforgiving desert where she befriends Rustan, a disillusioned Marksman of the Order of Khur.
20) Loveboat, Taipei
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her parents send her to Taipei for an immersion program, Ever Wong finds herself surrounded by classmates who are more interested in the Taipei nightlife and discovering what freedom feels like.