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43) Best season ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American girl provides rhyming descriptions of the great variety of colors she sees around her, from the red of a dragon, firecrackers, and lychees to the brown of her teddy bear.
Author
Series
Catherine Ling volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine Ling was abandoned in the streets of Hong Kong at the age of four, and was schooled in the art of survival. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of the mysterious Hu Chang - a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and is now one of their most effective operatives. Then her old friend Hu Chang creates something deadly and completely untraceable - and the chase is on to be the first to get...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the outside, the Chengs seem like poster children for the enduring promise of the American Dream. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't this what they sacrificed so much for, to be a family? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night, putting in motion a string of misunderstandings that strips away their...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Knives Out meets Kim's Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady-ah, lady of a certain age-who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her...
54) Wok
Author
Publisher
Distributed by C.E. Tuttle Co
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
111 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1988
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 16 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco during the 1850's gold rush, Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.
56) A nervous night
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.
57) Waste tide
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In...
59) A happy day
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
25 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Today is Sunday and that means its dim sum time with my whole family! I can't wait to see everyone, especially Grandma. I'm going to eat lots of shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, egg tarts, and my favorite--char siu buns. We will have to order enough for us all to share. So what are you waiting for? Dim sum, here we come!"--