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141) Bonnie's rocket
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While her father works on the Apollo 11 mission, Bonnie experiments with different ways to build and launch her own rocket. Includes author's note.
142) Star of the show
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Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.
143) No more teasing
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The class bully loves to tease Katie Woo until she decides to ignore him.
144) One hug
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A young boy discovers many different kinds of hugs and ways to show love as family members and friends gather to welcome his immigrant relatives from China.
145) Best season ever
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Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.
146) Katie finds a job
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As Career Day at school approaches, Katie has great ideas for helping her friends present their future professions, but cannot think of a job that she would like to do.
147) This is just a test
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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.
148) Grumpy New Year
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Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.
149) On such a full sea
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"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
150) The verifiers
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"Claudia Lin is looking at a cliched post-college future as a chronically underemployed English major--much to the consternation of her mother, who wants her to settle down and start dating a nice Chinese boy already; her brother, who pushes her to follow in his model-minority footsteps; and her sister, who can't get over Claudia's privileged place in their mother's affections. But Claudia is used to keeping secrets from her family. Such as the fact...
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"Today is Sunday and that means its dim sum time with my whole family! I can't wait to see everyone, especially Grandma. I'm going to eat lots of shrimp dumplings, rice noodle rolls, egg tarts, and my favorite--char siu buns. We will have to order enough for us all to share. So what are you waiting for? Dim sum, here we come!"--
157) Make-believe class
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One cold, gray, winter day, Miss Winkle leads Katie Woo and the rest of her class on an imaginary journey, challenging them to find ways to complete their lessons on a sunny island, under the sea, or on the moon.
158) Nurse Kenji rules!
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Katie Woo and her parents help their new neighbor, Mr. Kenji, to prepare for his final test to become a nurse.
159) Sugar
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In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including changes to her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.
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