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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a niche among the spoiled heiresses. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment, but her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's...
Author
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"--
6) Bitter Melon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frances, a Chinese-American student at an academically competitive school in San Francisco, has always had it drilled into her to be obedient to her mother and to be a straight-A student so that she can go to Med school. But is being a doctor what she wants? It has never even occurred to Frances to question her own feelings and desires until she accidentally winds up in speech class and finds herself with a hidden talent. Does she dare to challenge
...7) 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
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
10) Gateway
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
While passing through the Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, a Chinese American teenager is transported to a parallel world where she is given a dangerous assignment.
11) Dragon road
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
13) Thief of hearts
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 9
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When Stacy is paired with a Chinese girl at school who is accused of theft, she must come to terms with her own Chinese and American heritage.
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