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3) Front desk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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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 when...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Twelve-year-old Anna's friend Andee spearheads a campaign to bring Fan from China to Cincinnati on a year-long cultural exchange, but before Fan even arrives Anna is concerned that Andee and Fan are too different to get along.
8) Just like me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
10) Boo, Katie Woo!
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Disappointed that her monster costume does not frighten anyone, Katie Woo still finds a way to have a happy Halloween.
12) Coolies
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
15) The star fisher
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.
20) I am golden
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
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