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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.
4) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.
6) Angelfish
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Robin, a young ballet dancer who is half Chinese and half white, works in a fish store for Mr. Tsow, a brusque Chinese who accuses her of being a half-person and who harbors a bitter secret.
7) Ribbons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As her parents' arguments become more frequent, Robin looks forward to the visits that she and her grandmother make to Chinatown, where they pretend to be an elderly cook's family, giving Robin new insights into her Chinese heritage.
10) Later, Gator
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother Bobby an alligator for his birthday.
11) The star maker
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
12) Dragons of silk
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
13) Skunk scout
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
Teddy is not thrilled with the present his uncle gives him for his tenth birthday--a camping trip for him and his younger brother--but on his first outing away from San Francisco's Chinatown, Teddy learns some interesting facts about nature, about his uncle, and about himself.
16) The lost garden
Author
Language
English
Description
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.
17) Tiger's blood
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American boy and his friends--a monkey, a dragon, a rat, and a tiger--must ensure that a magical phoenix egg does not fall into evil hands in the underwater dragon kingdom.
18) Dream soul
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
In 1927, as Christmas approaches, fifteen-year-old Joan Lee hopes to get her parents' permission to celebrate the holiday, one of the problems of belonging to the only Chinese American family in her small West Virginia community.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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