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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated. When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Mountain, books provide what real life cannot -- constant companionship and insight into her changing world. Books, however, can't tell Anna how to find a true friend. She'll have to discover that on her own....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
7) The fortunes
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"Inhabiting four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures over a century of our history through the immigrant family experience"--
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Teddy books (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Teddy and his little brother Bobby devise strategies using bugs to defeat the school bully.
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Amy Wu volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.
12) A happy day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.
13) A nervous night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Katie is nervous about a sleepover at her grandparents' house.
14) Front desk
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Front desk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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"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 when...
15) Outrun the moon
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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780L
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"On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
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Dell Yearling
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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While her younger siblings have adopted many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plot to convert her to American culture.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Katie's Aunt Patty is the new mayor, and Katie and her friends attend her first city council meeting, brimming with ideas about what their neighborhood needs--like free ice cream, puppies, and a new park where children can play in safety.
19) Sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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