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Anna Wang books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.
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English
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When George, the man with whom she had brief fling several years earlier, unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, newly engaged Lucie Churchill is drawn to him again and spins a web of deceit in an attempt to block him from her life, and her heart.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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English
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In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator's new job is a coveted one among New York's beauty-obsessed, and it affords her entry into a new world of privilege. She becomes transfixed by Helen-a model, and the niece of Holistik's charismatic owner-and the two strike...
6) Siren queen
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Inheriting her grandmother's restaurant in a crumbling San Francisco Chinatown neighborhood, Natalie receives some advice from the local seer that will help her struggling community, but she isn't sure she wants to help them try to turn things around.
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Series
Major eights volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
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English
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An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a rut working at her parents' donut shop, Jasmine Tran finds help in the form of an old college crush, but when their relationship doesn't work out, she must scheme to find a solution and get herself out of the donut trap.
13) Live in infamy
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom--or death.
14) Noteworthy
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Victor Chin's life is turned upside down at the tender age of 15. Diagnosed with leprosy, he's forced to leave the familiar confines of the Bronx - the only home he's known since emigrating from China - to quarantine alongside patients from all over the country at a federal institution. Between treatments he dreams of escape. But soon he finds a new sense of freedom far from home - one without the pull of obligations to his family. Here, in the company...
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Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school. She's the only scholarship student-- and now her parents can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship. Alice hatches a plan: she has actually started to develop the power to turn completely, physically invisible, and will monetize her new power by discovering the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know-- for a price. As the tasks escalate...
Author
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.
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