Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
Millicent Min, Girl Genius
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
Good Luck, Ivy
In 1976, Ivy must choose between participating in a gymnastics tournament and attending a family reunion, and fears she will wind up disappointing everyone, no matter what she decides to do.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: chinese americans [X], family, gymnastics, family life, families, brothers and sisters, girls, chinese american families, chinese american girls, seventies (20th century), siblings, california, san francisco (calif.), children's stories
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--Provided by the publisher.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 64
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: grandparents, restaurants, chinese americans [X], immigrants, racism, genealogy, children of immigrants, minnesota, realistic fiction