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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....
2) Mismatch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl.
3) Bully.com
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Wrongly accused of cyberbullying, seventh-grader Jun Li, a brilliant student, more comfortable around computers than people, has seven days to find the real culprit or face explusion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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
First Second
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from poverty in Chinatown, and she gains admittance to a prestigious finishing school through a mix of cunning and bribery. She soon discovers that getting in was the easiest part, and must carve a niche among the spoiled heiresses. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy and her classmates are forced to a survivor encampment, but her quick-witted leadership rallies them to help in the tragedy's...
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) 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.
12) Vera Wang
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of the Chinese-American designer, describing her early attempts to become an ice skating star, her decision to pursue a career in fashion, and her international success as a creator of bridal wear.
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