Up A Road Slowly
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: orphans [X], family life, newbery medal, girls, teenagers [X], aunts, coming of age [X], family, adolescence, domestic fiction, teenage girls, families, korean language materials, korean language, bildungsromans, bildungsromans
From Little Tokyo, With Love
Growing up under the care of a loving aunt, an orphaned judo student with a mixed heritage reevaluates her perspectives on happy endings while searching for evidence proving that she is related to a famous rom-com celebrity.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: japanese americans, orphans [X], teenagers [X], identity (psychology), racially mixed people, identity, coming of age [X], los angeles (calif.), bildungsromans