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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, gather to play mah jong, remember the past, and gossip into the night. United in unspeakable loss and new hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, memories that reveal these women's strength, worries, and determination, which their American-born daughters reject as irrelevant. The daughters, in turn,...
4) The fortunes
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English
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The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. The Fortunes uses this history from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls to create a portrait of a community...
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"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
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English
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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"A powerful debut that proves the threads that interweave our lives can withstand time and any tide, and bind our hearts forever."—Susanna Kearsley, New York Times bestselling author of Belleweather and The Vanished Days
A historical novel inspired by true events, Kelli Estes's brilliant and atmospheric debut is a poignant tale of two women determined to do the right
...11) Typical American
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin/S. Lawrence
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. But when the Communists assume control of China in 1949, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen find themselves in a crisis, struggling to cling to their old-world ideas of themselves.
But soon they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention. They transform, poignantly and ironically,...
12) Basta de burlas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
The class bully loves to tease Katie Woo until she decides to ignore him. Written in Spanish.
13) Coolies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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.
16) La gran mentira
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Publisher
Capstone Picture Window Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is. Written in Spanish.
19) Terrible Terrel
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Series
Sugar plum ballerinas volume 4
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Terrel Liu tries to sabotage her father's new relationship with the aunt of her ballet class nemesis.
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