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Amy Wu volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly
Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher
3) Finally seen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs--in memory of his mom, and to bring much-needed publicity to his aunt's struggling Chinese takeout in Brooklyn. Enter Theo Somers: charming, wealthy, with a smile that makes Dylan's stomach do backflips. AKA a distraction. Their worlds are sun-and-moon apart, but Theo keeps showing up. He even convinces Dylan to be his fake date at a family wedding in the Hamptons....
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Series
Front desk volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
7) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
8) Watercress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
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
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amy loves craft time at school, but when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don't think it's a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right - none of them feels like hers. After school, a story from Grandma sparks new inspiration, and Amy rounds up her family to help her. Will Amy make...
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Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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.--
12) Cartwheel Katie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out
13) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Pub. Date
2023
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... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
17) The tricky tooth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Katie is the only one in her class who has not lost a tooth, but despite all of her efforts, her wiggly tooth refuses to come out
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy's grandmother Poh Poh and her poodle Fluffy arrive for a visit, and Fluffy immediately begins building a doomsday machine that will hypnotize humans and turn them into agents of chaos--can Ember work with the other neighborhood pets to outsmart this evil genius?
Author
Language
English
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Description
Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more
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