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A ten-year-old boy from Cincinnati struggles with the news that his beloved Chinese grandmother is moving to California.

In 1889 in the islands off the coast of Washington State, thirteen-year-old Clementine pulls a nearly drowned Chinese man out of the sea and begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may have been involved in his attempted murder as well as other treacherous deeds.

In 1934, twelve-year-old Kai leaves China to join his father in America, but first he must take a long sea voyage, then endure weeks of crowded conditions and harsh examinations on Angel Island, fearing that he or his new friend will be sent home.

A toymaker and his young friends prepare a shadow puppet play for the Moon Festival in Chinatown in Los Angeles.

A rhyming story that describes a typical Chinese New Year celebration.

Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncle who live far away in China.

Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.

Feeling confined by the traditional Chinese family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, sixteen-year-old April Chen fights for her independence.

When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.

Jim teams up with his grandfather, who is known as the meanest man in Chinatown, to defeat a powerful demon.

On the first day of spring, a mother and her son go to the park where they draw Chinese characters that represent words relating to the season.

When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.

Discusses the reasons Chinese people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society.

Discusses Chinese who have immigrated to the United States, their reasons for coming, where they have settled, and how they have contributed to their new country.

Chronicles the history of Chinese immigrants in America, describing their positive and negative experiences--including building the transcontinental railroad and the prohibition of Chinese immigration into the U.