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Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 10
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Four generations of Chinese and Chinese-American girls, beginning in 1835, are tied together by the tradition of raising silkworms and the legacy of the legendary Weaving Maid.
3) The amah
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Amy finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home.
4) Ribbons
Author
Series
Robin Lee books volume 1
Publisher
PaperStar, The Putnam & Grosset Group
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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. Dragon's gate is third in the Golden mountain chronicles: 1867, and the second book is "Mountain light." The first book is The serpent's light. The fourth book is The traitor, and the last one is titled Dragonwings....
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Publisher
HarperTrophy, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1990, ©1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
10) Tiger magic
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American boy and his band of friends must protect the magical phoenix and fight a war to prevent the evil Vatten from taking over the world.
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
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.
12) Tiger's blood
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American boy and his friends--a monkey, a dragon, a rat, and a tiger--must ensure that a magical phoenix egg does not fall into evil hands in the underwater dragon kingdom.
13) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Formats
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
14) Yong ŭi nalgae
Author
Series
Publisher
Han'gilsa
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Korean
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes in popular "penny dreadful" novels, until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1922, ten-year-old Gim Lew reluctantly leaves his village in China to accompany his father to America, but before they go he must prepare for a grueling test that he must pass--without stuttering--at California's Angel Island, where strict officials strive to keep out unwanted immigrants. Includes facts about immigration from China and the experiences of the author's family.
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