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Author
Series
My boyfriend is a monster volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
GN 360L
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old New Mexico high school senior Vanessa Shingle learns that she destined to be a monster-hunter like her Van Helsing ancestor, and that the gorgeous janitor she is dating, Jean-Paul, is there to help although he, himself, is a vampire.
403) This is just a test
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Abridged edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'American by Birth' explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. This book is a richly detailed account of the case and its implications in the ongoing conflicts over race and immigration in US history. It also includes a discussion of current controversies over limiting the...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down Americas “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told. On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A bilingual exploration of one family's dinner table.
Sparse text and bright illustrations help readers learn the names of all of their favorite dishes in both English and Mandarin. From spare ribs to spring pea shoots there's something for everyone in this timeless story about dinner time.
Author
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Te presentamos a Chispa, un chihuahua que acaba de ser adoptado por la familia Chin. Chispa no es un perro cualquiera; cree que es un príncipe del mal y quiere gobernar el mundo. Pero sus planes diabólicos se derrumban cuando se entera de que su nuevo vecindario ya es gobernado por una malvada ardilla a quien llaman Mole del Demoledor. ¿tendrá Chispa lo que hay que tener para construir un reino ... y gobernar el mundo?"--
For Ember, a rescue...
409) The year of the rat
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.
410) Umma
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her alienated mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the dread of turning into her own mother.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao, is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady--ah, lady of a certain age--who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her college-aged son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing--a dead man in the middle of her...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (313 pages) in cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.
Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo seem limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Xu begins with the story of Anson Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to China, and the 120 Chinese students he played a crucial role in bringing to America, inaugurating a program of Chinese international study that continues today. Such educational crosscurrents moved both ways, as is evident in Xu's profile of the remarkable Ge Kunhua, the Chinese poet who helped spearhead Chinese language teaching in Boston in the 1870s. Xu examines the...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The end of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as "coolieism." From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the...