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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal--if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger"--Provided by...
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Since her mother died when she was five years old, it's always just been Ronnie Miller and her dad. Two Korean Americans who, thanks to Ronnie's dad's adoption by white parents, have never felt all that Korean. But Ronnie is okay with that--as long as she has her dad and her best friend Jack, Ronnie is 99% certain she can get through anything. But as much as she wants everything to stay the same, the world--and her dad--has other plans. Now, Ronnie...
3) The name jar
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2023 Summer Challenge: Banned & Challenged Books
Big Feelings about Back to School
Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
Big Feelings about Back to School
Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
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After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
5) I'm new here
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Diverse Books - Refugee Experience - Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families in Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families in Picture Books
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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
7) K-Jane
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"A third-generation Korean American teen goes to extreme and hilarious lengths to connect more with her Korean heritage"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Eleven-year-old Luke and his dog, Haru, are the best of friends. Totally inseparable. But when their nasty landlord falsely accuses Haru of biting her, Haru is kidnapped! As Luke and his friends go on a serious mission to find and bring Haru home again, they discover mysterious experiments happening at the old laboratory at Painted Lake, owned by an evil multibillionaire named Mr. Thomas Sinclair. And Luke and his friends soon fear that Sinclair's...
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"Riley Jo is a teenager who knows what she wants. Born and raised in Bentonville, Arkansas, this Korean American girl has her sights set on being a musician. So when her parents are surprisingly cool about her attending the prestigious Los Angeles-based arts-focused boarding school her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance. This is her moment to make her indie rock dreams a reality! Things at Carlmont Academy start out strong: She joins...
12) I'm Ok
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Ok Lee knows it's his responsibility to help pay the bills. With his father gone and his mother working three jobs and still barely making ends meet, there's really no other choice. If only he could win the cash prize at the school talent contest! But he can't sing or dance, and has no magic up his sleeves, so he tries the next best thing: a hair braiding business. It's too bad the girls at school can't pay him much, and he's being befriended against...
13) Troublemaker
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On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
15) A giant problem
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When Mihi's nemesis, Genevieve, travels to the Rainbow Realm, Mihi, Savannah, and Reese cross over to the fairy tale realm to save her and find a giant atop an enormous beanstalk wreaking havoc on the realm.
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With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation and murder as victims accumulate around her college campus.
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Min Jin Lee introduces the indelible Casey Han: a strong-willed, Queens-bred daughter of Korean immigrants, who is addicted to a glamorous Manhattan lifestyle she cannot afford. Fresh out of Princeton with an economics degree, no job, and a popular white boyfriend, Casey is determined to carve a space for herself in the glittering world she craves--but at what cost? Lee's bestselling, sharp-eyed, sweeping epic of love, greed, and hunger--set in a...
20) Her good side
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At sixteen, Bethany Greene has never had a boyfriend, date, or first kiss. She's determined to change, and agrees to Homecoming to go with her best friend's boyfriend Jacob Yeun: a platonic date is better than no date, right? The Jacob's girlfriend breaks up with him. Dumped twice in two months, Jacob decides to make the best of an awkward situation. They decide to fake date for practice, building their confidence in matters of the heart. Guys start...
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