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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her stepfather leaves and her family loses their home to fire, twelve-year-old Chinese-American Monica, or Mo, struggles with anxiety, but the chance to hunt an elephant ghost -- and the promise of a new friend -- help convince her to live a little more dangerously.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
When second-grader Alvin Ho is invited to a birthday party given by a girl, his fear of everything causes him to dread going.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
When fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho learns that his mother is expecting a baby, he develops a sympathetic pregnancy--adding to his worry about the burglar who is targeting Concord, Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Alvin Ho volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents' expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the...
Author
Language
English
Description
The summer of 2013 in the Bay is a momentous one for eighteen-year-old Aria Tang West, for the working-class queer community she finds herself in, and for her artist grandmother.
Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West. Aria...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they'll have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-ching.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anna's friend Andee spearheads a campaign to bring Fan from China to Cincinnati on a year-long cultural exchange, but before Fan even arrives Anna is concerned that Andee and Fan are too different to get along.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Today is Sunday and that means its dim sum time with my whole family! I can't wait to see everyone, especially Grandma. I'm going to eat lots of shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, egg tarts, and my favorite--char siu buns. We will have to order enough for us all to share. So what are you waiting for? Dim sum, here we come!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Anna is concerned that her baby sister Kaylee, adopted from China three months ago, is not thriving so she and her best friends, Laura and Camille, create a science project that may save the day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite being warned that kittens are monsters, Ember the Chihuahua (who still aims for world domination) agrees to babysit a family of kittens for three days after the mother cat offers him an army in return.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For Ember, a rescue Chihuahua and the newest pet in the Chin family, the first step in fulfilling his destiny to rule the world is to defeat the evil neighborhood squirrel, Masher.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
58) Sugar
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
Author
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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?
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