Laurence Yep
1) Isabelle
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Isabelle, who attends a performing arts school in Washington, D.C., with her older sister, Jade, has a passion for ballet dancing but lacks self-confidence.
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume Book 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her 'sketchlings' of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents" --
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.
4) Mia
Author
Series
American girl volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
130 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mia has grown up playing ice hockey with her three older brothers and has the skills she needs to become a star hockey player. But she's tired of skating in her brothers' shadows and has decided to pursue her passion for figure skating instead. With the help of a new coach, Mia finds out whether she has what it takes to grow and compete as a figure skater.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.
7) Bravo, Mia!
Author
Series
American girl volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
130 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mia's chances of skating in regionals are threatened by a family crisis, but she determines to face the possibility that she won't get to compete with determination and grace.
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 3
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plucky pair Winnie and Miss Drake are traveling back in time to the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair to meet Winnie's great-grandfather Caleb. Their time-traveling companions are intent on solving a centuries-old mystery: who stole the Heart of Kubera? Along the way, there's even a chance encounter with Winnie's favorite author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Despite the excitement, Winnie's only wish is to get rid of Rowan, an unusual boy who has the annoying...
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 2
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
184, 14 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
11) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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
Chinatown volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Isabelle is an inspired dancer with a flair for fashion design. She's thrilled to be studying ballet at a prestigious performing arts school but her classmates are so talented, and she can't help feeling that she's always in the shadow of her 'perfect' older sister Jade. So when her idol, a famous ballerina, encourages her to audition for a professional ballet, Isabelle isn't sure she can land the role.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
16) Dragon's gate
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
273 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
17) Hiroshima
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
56 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.