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2) Just like me
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Language
English
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Description
In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
When Katie's mom starts to feel under the weather, it's up to the spunky schoolgirl to help her get better. And with Mother's Day coming, Katie wants to get a super-special gift for her super-special mom. But sometimes the best gift isn't a thing you can buy or make ... it's being a kind and thoughtful daughter!
9) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Series
Major Eights volume 1
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Keyboardist Jasmine, age eight, tries to convince her bandmates, Maggie, Becca, and Scarlet, to prove themselves in a Battle of the Bands competition, despite their poor equipment.
13) Cartwheel Katie
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Language
English
Description
Katie is enrolled in a gymnastics class, but when she has trouble doing some of the moves she gets discouraged and considers dropping out.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Language
English
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Description
In their long journey from San Francisco to Lusk, Wyoming, in 1889, David (Siu-Long) Wong and his parents have encountered terrible prejudice because they are Chinese immigrants; but here they are given a job at John Bell Hatcher's paleontological excavation digging up dinosaur bones, including an eight-foot long Triceratops skull, and David becomes fascinated by dinosaurs and resolves to become a paleontologist. Includes historical note on J.B. Hatcher....
17) I am golden
Author
Language
English
Description
What do you see when you look in the mirror, Mei? Do you see beauty? We see eyes that point toward the sun, that give us the warmth and joy of a thousand rays when you smile. We see hair as inky black and smooth as a peaceful night sky. We see skin brushed with gold.
20) The lies we tell
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Description
"When Anna Xu moves into the dorms to start freshman year, her parents and their struggling Chines bakery aren't far from campus-- or her mind. Her old middle-school nemesis, Chris Lu, is also on campus. When a vandal hits the Lu family business, Anna matches the racist tag with a clue from an unsolved campus murder. Is a secret society carrying out campus hate crimes? Anna and Chris team up to search into the current threat."--
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