Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle-baseball-happens. It is 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is everyone's hero. Jackie Robinson is proving that a black man, the grandson of a slave, can make a difference in America and for Shirley...

Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.

Told in verse, this is the story a Chinese American girl and her little brother who protest the idea of moving--until their grandmother teaches them a special trick to make the change easier.

Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.

When Katie misplaces her lucky charm, her mother gives her a journal to write her feelings in.

Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.

Combines four previously published stories about Katie Woo and her friends, including Boss of the world, The tricky tooth, Goodbye to Goldie, and Katie goes camping.

In these four previously published stories, Katie Woo has her first ride in an airplane, her first horse ride, and enjoys other new adventures.

Katie Woo and her friends would love to be part of Sophie's new club, but Sophie does not think they, or anyone, is good enough, so they form their own club.

This wonderful, bittersweet novel of misadventure and creeping assimilation begins in 1947, when the Shanghai-based Changs send young Ralph halfway around the world to study in New York. He sets off with two goals in mind--to master engineering and to avoid girls at any cost.