Kelly Yang
1) Front Desk
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.
Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.
Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed.
Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she...
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
5) Finally seen
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic.
Author
Series
A Front desk novel volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
8) Parachutes
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.