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Author
Series
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie, her father, JoJo, and Pedro are on a special sleepover at the museum; but at night the dark halls are spooky, and it is easy to imagine that the dinosaurs are ghosts haunting the museum--and when Mr. Woo disappears the children become frightened.
83) Mooncakes
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 290L
Language
English
Description
"The brand-new deluxe edition of Mooncakes features never-before-seen content from the bewitching graphic novel by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu. Perfect for any collector's bookshelf, the new edition comes in a deluxe hardcover package featuring new cover art and bouns content such as: an introduction by Shadow of the Batgirl's Sarah Kuhn, formally exclusive Patreon materials, and more!" --
"A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Liya and Kai had been best friends since they were little kids, but all that changed when a humiliating incident sparked The Biggest Misunderstanding of All Time--and they haven't spoken since. Then Liya discovers her family's wishing lantern store is struggling, and she decides to resume a tradition she had with her beloved late grandmother: secretly fulfilling the wishes people write on the lanterns they send into the sky. It may boost sales and...
86) The verifiers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family's model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She's also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls--and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who moved to America to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life according to their own cultural and...
89) Miracle
Author
Publisher
Christy Otaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amie has spent her life perfectly in tune with Ba-ba, her father--she plays the violin, his favorite instrument; she loves all his favorite foods, even if he can't eat them during his cancer treatments; and they talk about books, including Amie's favorite series, Harry Potter. But after Ba-ba dies, Amie feels distanced from everyone close to her, like her mother and her best friends, Rio and Bella. More devastating still, she loses her ability to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amy loves craft time at school, but when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don't think it's a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right--none of them feels like hers"--Publisher marketing.
91) Chasing secrets
Author
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
94) Moo, Katie Woo!
Author
Series
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie and her class visit a farm, and find out where eggs and milk come from.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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." -- Provided by publisher.
96) Loveboat forever
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In desperate need of a new image, seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong attends Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program, but instead enters an extravagant world where there's more awaiting her than she ever could've imagined--like a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wilma Lee Wu doesn't like her name any more so she decides to try on some new names at the Change Your Name Store and is transported all over the world to new cultures"--
99) Tofu takes time
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lin makes tofu with her grandma and discovers that patience brings a whole universe together in a simple dish made by a modern Chinese American family"--
100) Piggy bank problems
Author
Series
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katie goes to the bank with her friends JoJo and Pedro, and learns the value of having a place to keep her money.