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After her grandfather falls ill, eleven-year-old Maizy Chen travels to her mom's hometown of Last Chance, Minnesota, to help her grandparents run the Golden Palace, the family's Chinese restaurant. She is tasked with keeping Opa company while he recovers, and she soon finds herself learning about Lucky Chen, her great-great-grandfather who moved to Last Chance and opened the Golden Palace. She is shocked when the restaurant is targeted by a racist...
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"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
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"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic"--Provided by publisher.
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This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
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In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
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Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
15) Dragonwings
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In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
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In 1983, David Da-Wei Horowitz is preparing for his bar mitzvah, which involves trying to please both his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers, while building a fallout shelter with his friend Scott. But David finds himself wishing his best friend, Hector, who Scott doesn't like, and the cute Kelli Ann could be a part of their underground bunker, too. However, that would mean that David must stand up for Hector and talk to Kelli Ann.
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Meilan Hua's world consists of her comforts and loves--her family's matriarch, Nainai, her family's bakery in Boston's Chinatown, and her beloved books of Chinese fairy tales. Sorrow comes when Nainai passes away and her parents and grieving grandfather have to move from Chinatown in Boston to Redbud, Ohio. There, Meilan must rediscover herself, and she does so through exploring the many iterations and facets of her name as it appears in different...
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