Catalog Search Results
Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
©1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Swept up in one of the local rebellions against the Manchus in China, nineteen-year-old Squeaky loses his home and travels to America to seek his fortune among the gold fields of California. Sequel to "The Serpent's Children."
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
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....
6) Hiroshima
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, particularly as it affects Sachi, who becomes one of the Hiroshima Maidens.
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.
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
9) 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.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
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.
13) The star maker
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.
Interlibrary Loans
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Arcadia Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request