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Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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A first book by the writer behind the successful LaineyGossip.com blog shares nine parenting principles distilling the unconventional advice, warnings and messages of love imparted by her eccentric Chinese mother.
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Anna Wang books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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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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Anna Wang books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Eleven-year-old Anna takes a trip to China and learns more about herself and her Chinese heritage.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the super rich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
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Roaring twenties volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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When she has a haunting vision about a yacht's disappearance, feisty flapper Astrid Magnusson, home from college, is plunged into an underground world of old money and dark magic along with her notorious bootlegging brother's second-in-command.
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Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
11) No more teasing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The class bully loves to tease Katie Woo until she decides to ignore him.
15) Boo, Katie Woo!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Disappointed that her monster costume does not frighten anyone, Katie Woo still finds a way to have a happy Halloween.
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Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A boy and a group of magical animals carry the fate of the world on their shoulders in this fantasy adventure by a two-time Newbery Honor–winning author.
It isn't every day you meet a tiger. And certainly not a tiger in a suit and tie who informs you the fate of the world is in your hands . . .
Tom has always felt different from everyone else living in San Francisco's Chinatown, but he has no idea just how very different he is...
It isn't every day you meet a tiger. And certainly not a tiger in a suit and tie who informs you the fate of the world is in your hands . . .
Tom has always felt different from everyone else living in San Francisco's Chinatown, but he has no idea just how very different he is...
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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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Anna Wang books volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
19) Watercress
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Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
20) Girl in reverse
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing,' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"-- Provided by publisher.
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