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Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Lunar New Year
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Lunar New Year
Formats
Description
It's the Chinese year of the dog! When Pacy's mom tells her that this is a good year for friends, family, and "finding herself," Pacy begins searching right away. As the year goes on, she struggles to find her talent, deals with disappointment, makes a new best friend, and discovers just why the year of the dog is a lucky one for her after all.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The East-West Highway was soon to be built in central Taiwan. It would pass through the village of Liu Ts'o, and many homes and rice paddies would be destroyed. The film maker Hu Tai-Li went back to her mother-in-law's village Liu Ts'o, where she did anthropological research from 1976-78, to preserve some images of life forever.
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma's sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus, the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night, and one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, he wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. He grew...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch,...
Author
Series
Pacy Lin books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the Chinese Year of the Rat, a young Taiwanese American girl faces many challenges: her best friend moves to California and a new boy comes to her school, she must find the courage to forge ahead with her dream of becoming a writer and illustrator, and she must learn to find the beauty in change.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's New Books: October 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Description
In 1980, ten-year-old Anna and her parents finalize their immigration from Taiwan to California, and as she settles in to her new home, Anna is confronted by the stark difference between her dreams and her reality.
11) American panda
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When an American woman inherits the wealth of her Taiwanese family, she travels to confront them about their betrayals of the past in this stunning debut by Lyn Liao Butler. Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she's neither white enough nor Asian enough. Visiting her father in Taiwan as a child, Lexa thought she'd finally found a place where she belonged. But that...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's New Books: September 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's New Books: September 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Description
"A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself"--
14) Amah faraway
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Nervous about visiting her grandmother in Taipei, Taiwan, a young girl soon adjusts to her unfamiliar surroundings and enjoys the adventure.
15) A taste for love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Smart, kind, and pretty, Liza Yang dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But her mom compares her to older sister Jeannie, and sees Liza as stubborn, rebellious, and determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. The one thing they agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Geraldine Pu is assigned to write a true story about her family at school and discovers that her family is full of incredible memories"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As he entered adulthood (of sorts), Huang began to wonder just how authentic his Chinese identity really was, a dilemma that grew more acute as he contemplated proposing marriage to his all-American (well, all-Italian-American) girlfriend. So he enlisted his brothers Emery and Evan and returned to the land his ancestors had abandoned. His immediate goal was to sample the best food in China, from four-star restaurants in Shanghai to sidewalk vendors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: October 2021 Beginning Readers
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 1st & 2nd Grades
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 1st & 2nd Grades
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
With encouragement from her supportive lunchbox, a young girl ignores a classmate's teasing and heartily enjoys bao buns, stinky tofu, and other tasty lunches prepared by her Taiwanese grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Taiwanese American Olivia joins forces with a secret society of students intent on ending the school's culture around bullying--all while making friends and falling in love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Geraldine Pu thinks her hair is boring and uses her cat shaped hat to cover it, but after she tries to copy her grandmother's hair with disastrous results, Geraldine learns to embrace her individuality.
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