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Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
Author
Series
Zodiac legacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
When a catastrophe threatens the lives of every Zodiac in the world, sixteen-year-old Steven Lee is forced to decide how far he will go to protect his fellow superpowered friends.
Author
Series
Anna Wang books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.
Author
Series
Finally seen volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom's video take off on social media, she's captivated by the potential to be seen and heard! Maybe online she can finally find the confidence she craves. Whereas in real life she's growing so fast, she feels like microwave popcorn, bursting out of her skin! With the help of her two best friends, Carla and Finn, and her little sister, Millie, Lina sets off to go viral. Except there's a lot more to social media...
7) Finally seen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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"--Title verso page.
8) Just like me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When Ivy Ling, a young, Chinese-American girl growing up in San Francisco during the 1970s, has to choose between attending a gymnastics tournament or a family reunion, her brother helps her find a solution to her dilemma.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost--and the promise of a new friend--help convince her to live a little moredangerously.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
12) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 001. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
13) New from here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus"--Title verso page.
15) Sugar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 390L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.
Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and...
Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.
Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and...
17) Room to dream
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like... 1. Lupe is taking classes at the high school, and Mia's own plans to be a big writer are...stuck. 2....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
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.
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