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1) Front desk
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for 'immorality' in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young...
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
4) Muted
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights--plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies...
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Pig wants the biggest and finest new house for the cheapest price, even if that involves telling a little porky... He's about to find out exactly what happens to greedy pigs who fleece their workers! When the bricks fall, who will save this pig's bacon?
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...