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321) Boogie
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, N.Y., dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals, and the burden of expectation.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hr., 2 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
Author
Series
Genie Lo novels volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Genie Lo learns of a cosmos-threatening force while the Jade Emperor is absent, she leads a party of quarrelsome Chinese gods through multiple planes of reality on a quest that will require sacrifice, not strength.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Ling and Ting celebrate their birthday by sharing gifts and making wishes. Kit includes: book, audio book, and Parent Trap and Parent Trap2 DVDs.
325) The jade dragon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.
327) Chang's paper pony
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 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.
328) Flower drum song
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang Ta, a handsome college student living in Chinatown, complications,...
329) 9 dragons
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. Harry has stumbled into the middle of a kidnapping. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back. Bosch drops everything to go to his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Vee's history assignment is to create a family tree, but he doesn't know anything about his family beyond his parents' generation.
331) Level up
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
160 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
332) Reading Amy Tan
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
ix, 138 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a critical introduction to the work of the Chinese-American author, discussing her five novels, her short stories, her characters, language, and major themes.
333) Brothers
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
334) Shanghai messenger
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A free-verse novel about eleven-year-old Xiao Mei's visit with her extended family in China, where the Chinese-American girl finds many differences but also the similarities that bind a family together.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio/Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (approximately 64 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
337) Love, love
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Frances Chin, a 10-year old Chinese-American girl, lives in the suburbs of Detroit with her immigrant parents and older sister, Clara. At school Frances copes with bullies and the loneliness that comes with not quite fitting in. At home, she feels a different kind of aloneness. Her parents are preoccupied with work and worry about Clara, whose hair is inexplicably falling out. But, with the help of her friend Annie, Frances is determined to play...
338) Chinese New Year
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (4 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Shows the sights and sounds of a traditional Chinese New Year celebration.
339) Animal crackers
Author
Publisher
Slave Labor Graphics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gordon Yamamoto, a dim-witted bully, but loveable student at Quiggenberry High School, learns an important lesson on life after getting something unexpectedly lodged up his nostril. Meanwhile Loyola is forced to ask herself if it is more important to be smart then virtuous when she encounters a powerful alien in her dreams.
340) Landed
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
After leaving his village in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held at Angel Island, San Francisco, before being released to join his father, a merchant living in the area. Includes historical notes.
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