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
Ruby Lu, Brave And True
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: chinese americans [X], neighborhood, friendship [X], family, schools, family life, school stories, neighborhoods, families
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
Ruby Lu, Empress Of Everything
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: friendship [X], immigrants, chinese americans [X], deaf, people with disabilities, handicapped
Alvin Ho
A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
Best Season Ever
Katie and her friends Pedro and JoJo disagree over which season of the year is the best.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380
The Year Of The Book
Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she navigates relationships with family, friends, and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a true best friend.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
Brothers
Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
Honeysuckle House
An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom, but they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: best friends, friendship [X], chinese americans [X], immigrants, moving, household, cincinnati (ohio), moving
Katie Goes Camping
Katie has a wonderful time camping with her friends Pedro and JoJo, but when it gets dark the shadows make ordinary things seem frightening.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 240
Red Thread Sisters
After an American family adopts eleven-year-old Wen from a Chinese orphanage, she vows to find a family for her best friend, too.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: interracial adoption, international adoption, adoption, chinese americans [X], family life, friendship [X], families, intercountry adoption
Alvin Ho
When Alvin's father takes him camping to instill a love of nature, like that of their home-town hero Henry David Thoreau, Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave despite his fear of everything.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: fear, pregnancy, interpersonal relations, schools, chinese americans [X], concord (mass.), friendship [X], self-confidence, camping
Yang The Third And Her Impossible Family
Third daughter Mary Yang makes an unexpected new friend while trying to hide a kitten from her family.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
The Jade Dragon
A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
The Accidental Adventures Of India Mcallister
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690