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(0)Wendy Wan Long Shang
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
Eleven-year-old aspriring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's New Books: February 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Formats
Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Description
Presents a song set to the tune of "The wheels on the bus," where a multigenerational family enjoys a culturally rich meal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A 12-year-old boy is caught in the middle of cultures, friends, and growing up Chinese Jewish American in this hilariously witty and heartwarming coming-of-age story.David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot on his plate. Preparing for his upcoming bar mitzvah would be enough work even if it didn't involve trying to please his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, who argue about everything. But David just wants everyone to be happy.That includes his friend Scott,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...