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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."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books and Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1st ed.
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Physical Desc
43 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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 telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch."--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...
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English
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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity"--
8) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
9) Watercress
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Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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"Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time...
11) The fortunes
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Language
English
Description
"Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood's first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial...
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Edition
1st Dragonfly Books ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true, in a story which includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1984
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Trumpet Club Special Edition. In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Nominee, 1985-1986. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award collection--look for DCF spine label.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
233 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
17) Siren queen
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill-but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Edition
Special anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Penguin drop caps volume T
Language
English
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Description
"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....
Author
Publisher
Knopf : distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
209 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.
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