ICCAL » Chinese Americans http://wowlit.org/catalog Browse our collection of literature Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:54:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Millicent Min: Girl Genius http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780756939199/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780756939199/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:05 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780756939199/ Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily doesn’t know Millicent’s IQ score. She actually thinks Millie is cool. And if Millie can hide her awards, ignore her grandmother’s advice, swear her parents to silence, blackmail Stanford, and keep all her lies straight, she just might make her first friend.

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]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780756939199/feed/ 0 The Year of the Dog http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780316060028/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780316060028/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:05:05 +0000 Book Importer http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780316060028/ It’s the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to “find herself.” Universal themes of friendship, family, and finding one’s passion in life make this novel appealing to readers of all backgrounds.

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]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780316060028/feed/ 0 Dragonwings http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780060267384/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780060267384/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:31:27 +0000 Rebecca Ballenger http://wowlit.org/?p=7144 dragonwingsMoon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met, but Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with Moon Shadow’s help is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his wife and country — even the great earthquake — to make his dream come true.

Series: Golden Mountain Chronicles

Awards:
Newbery Honor Book

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780060267384/feed/ 0 Landed http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374343149/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374343149/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:11:16 +0000 Yoo Kyung Sung http://wowlit.org/catalog/0374343144/ leeAfter leaving his home in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held and interrogated on Angel Island before being allowed to join his merchant father in San Francisco.

]]> http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780374343149/feed/ 1 Eric In The Land Of The Insects http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395652312/ http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780395652312/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:08:48 +0000 Kathy G. Short http://wowlit.org/2007/03/14/9780395652312/ Nine-year-old Eric enters a landscape painting on his bedroom wall and discovers a world of meadow insects startlingly similar to his own.

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