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Provides information about the Chinese New Year, a fifteen-day celebration that starts on the first day of the lunar year in January or February, discussing the feasting, gifts, parades, and other traditions that characterize the holiday.

Presents a career biography of American figure skater Michelle Kwan, tracing her record of success from childhood through the 2003-2004 skating season.

When hard times fall on his family, Jo Lee is sent from China to San Francisco, where he helps his uncle fish and dreams of being reunited with his mother and sister.

Provides information about the Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated with food, parades, fireworks, religious observances, gifts, and family gatherings.

When Tou Yang's football team plays the team from his former school, where he was picked on for being small, he struggles to remain focused and use his skills against Darren, who still wants to bully him.

Kai Ting, a young Chinese-American boy adjusting to life in San Francisco after the death of his mother, must face cultural differences in his own family when his father takes a new American wife.

A history of the Chinese in the United States from their early days in California to the present, including the biography of Dr.

Discusses the Chinese Americans who have come to America to pursue their dreams as skilled professionals and others who have come as undocumented workers.

Twelve-year-old Amy finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home.

Traces the personal life and career of the world-champion figure skater.

Presents a short history of the Chinese immigrant experience in the U.

Discusses reasons for immigration of the Chinese to the United States, their problems here, and their contributions to American life.

A seventeen-year-old Chinese American in Minnesota and her family tread a balance between the Far East and Middle West.

Mr. Kang loves his caged Chinese bird Hua Mei, but when his seven-year-old grandson Sam persuades him to give the bird his freedom they get a surprise.

A young girl numbers her discoveries in the world around her, from one dragon boat to four mahjong players to ten bamboo stalks.