Laurence Yep
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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. Sequel to "Mountain light."
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
8) Ribbons
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family.
9) Dragon war
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home.
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.
11) Hiroshima
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
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.
15) Angelfish
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Robin, a young ballet dancer who is half Chinese and half white, works in a fish store for Mr. Tsow, a brusque Chinese who accuses her of being a half-person and who harbors a bitter secret.
16) The amah
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Amy finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, join forces to solve the theft of some priceless pearls and stop the operator of a sweatshop in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.