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-- Twenty-nine dates[2018]., Adolescent, Inkyard Press Call No: ROMANCE F DE LA CR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Jisu flubs a test at her Seoul school and skips out on a matchmaker-arranged date to spend time with friends, her traditional parents decide to send her to private school---in San Francisco.
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By Saedi, Sara[2018]., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 921 SAEDI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants.
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[2015]., Kensington Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of an Alcatraz prison guard's only daughter who goes missing and the prisoner who knows the truth, and the story of Shanley Keagan who almost twenty years earlier leaves Dublin, Ireland and comes to America to find his father.
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2015., Kensington Books Call No: HISTORICAL F MCM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Shanley Keagan, tired of the dismal pay he gets as a vaudevillian actor in Dublin pubs, takes the chance to go to America and search for his real father. Tragedy strikes, forcing Shan to use his ingenuity to create a new life in a volatile world. Two decades later, Shan's story becomes part of a prison guard's daughter's, who goes missing on the island of Alcatraz. The search for the guard's daughter will decide the fate of bank robber Tommy Capello, who is the only one who knows the truth of where she is.
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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.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. Call No: F Yan 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.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. Call No: Young adult FIC YANG Edition: 1st ed. 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.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC YAN 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.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Inc. Call No: FIC YANG Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 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.
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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.
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By Yang, KellyÃ2018., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 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.
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By Yang, Kelly2018., Pre-adolescent, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print mini-collections.Summary Note: Mia Tang and her immigrant parents are not exactly living the American dream since moving here from China--they live in the Calivista Motel, and Mia must tend to its guests. Her parents, meanwhile, have been hiding illegal immigrants in the motel's empty rooms, risking the wrath of the owner, Mr. Yao. On the personal life front, Mia wants to become a writer, but her mother is being very discouraging because she is better at math and English is not her first language. No matter what, however, Mia vows to follow her dreams.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: Teen Fiction FIC CHA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Both of sixteen-year-old Cammi's parents are stars in Mexico, but everything changes when her mother accepts a role in an American sitcom.
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1999., Vintage Contemporaries a division of Random House, Inc. Call No: Literature FIC DUBUS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
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By Kuo, Jane[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like 'undocumented' and 'inequality.' She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna grapples with the complexities of being undocumented, the strain that it places on her family, and the loneliness of keeping it all to herself, she has to wonder--if America is the promised land, why does everything she's hoped for feel like a lie?"--From the publisher's web site.
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By Kuo, Jane[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC KUO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar words like 'undocumented' and 'inequality.' She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna grapples with the complexities of being undocumented, the strain that it places on her family, and the loneliness of keeping it all to herself, she has to wonder--if America is the promised land, why does everything she's hoped for feel like a lie?"--From the publisher's web site.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: Fic Sal Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems her father taught her, but each day threatens to further tear her family apart.
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By Lo, Malinda2021., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: HISTORICAL FIC LO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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2018., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: REALISTIC F GIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
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2018., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC GIL Edition: 1st ed., April 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.
