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c2009., Pre-adolescent, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything when his father takes him camping, hoping to install a love of nature like that of their hometown hero, Henry David Thoreau.
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c2008., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st Yearling ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, First Second Call No: GN-REALISTIC AME Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Summary Note: Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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2006., Pre-adolescent, First Second Call No: GN 741.5 YANG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
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c2012., Lee & Low Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A Chinese American girl's Auntie Yang discovers soybeans-a favorite Chinese food-growing in Illinois, leading her family to a soybean picnic tradition that grows into an annual community event. Includes author's note and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: MYSTERY F MIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Greenglass HouseSummary Note: Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with her stepmother and half brother, though she's certain the only place she'll ever belong is with her father on a ship of war as part of the crew. She doesn't care that living in a house is safer and the proper place for a twelve-year-old girl; it's boring. But then two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need to enact an evil plan, and it will take all Lucy's fighting instincts to keep her family together.
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c2006, Primary, Philomel Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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[2015]., Wendy Lamb Books Call No: Historical Fiction FIC CHO Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors of the plague. The newspapers, her powerful uncle, and her beloved papa all deny that the plague has reached San Francisco. So why is the heart of the city under quarantine? Why are angry mobs trying to burn Chinatown to the ground? Why is Noah, the Chinese cook's son, suddenly making Lizzie question everything she has known to be true? Ignoring the rules of race and class, Lizzie and Noah must put the pieces together in a heart-stopping race to save the people they love.
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2001., Primary, Philomel Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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By Chong, Kevin2023., Atria Books Call No: HISTORICAL F CHO Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between the two. At least, that's what Yu, the narrator of the story, wants to write. The creator of a bestselling comic book, Yu is struggling with continuing the poignant tale of Benny and Constantine and can't help but interject from the present day, slowly revealing a darker backstory. Can Yu confront the demons he's spent his adult life avoiding or risk his own life...and Benny's?
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[2019]., Putnam, G. P. Putnam's Sons Call No: HISTORICAL F LEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2008, Pre-adolescent, HarperCollins Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Golden mountain chronicles Volume: 1939Summary Note: In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
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c2008, Pre-adolescent, HarperCollins Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Gim Lew leaves his village in China to accompany his father to America, but before they go he must prepare for a grueling test that he must pass--without stuttering--at California's Angel Island, where officials strive to keep out unwanted immigrants. Includes facts about immigration from China and the experiences of the author's family.
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Ã2008, Pre-adolescent, Harper Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Ten-year-old Gim Lew Yep immigrates from China to America with his father, whom Gim barely knows, and fears he will be a disappointment to his family when he arrives at Angel Island.
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1995, c1993., HarperCollins Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: 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."
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[2022]., Primary, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: E Ho, Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A young Chinese American boy discovers himself, his roots, and his potential.
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By Yang, Kelly[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: FIC YAN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
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[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Random House Studio Call No: FIC GUO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A little girl arrives, excited for a beachy vacation with her Lao Lao. The girl and her grandmother search for shells, chase crabs, and play in the sea, but when the girl finds an exquisite flamingo feather in her grandmother's living room, her vacation turns into something fantastical"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason.
