The Story Of Noodles =
Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, "mian tiao," or noodles.
495.1
year: 2016
copies: 1
call number/section: 495.1
lexile:
subjects: juvenile fiction / cooking & food, juvenile fiction / fairy tales & folklore / country & ethnic, juvenile fiction / historical / asia, juvenile fiction / people & places / asia [X], bilingual books, family life [X], chinese cooking, noodles, china
Patron Saints Of Nothing
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 62
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: homicide, cousins, family life [X], drug traffic, philippines, murder, families, juvenile fiction / people & places / asia [X], juvenile fiction / law & crime, juvenile fiction / family / general (see also headings under social issues), homocide, young adult fiction, electronic books
The Rent Collector
Sang Ly lives at Cambodia's city dump where survival is a daily struggle, but when she develops an unlikely friendship with the ill-tempered rent collector, Sopeap, who teaches her to read, Sang embarks on a life-changing journey to give her son, Nisay, a better life and future.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: poverty, ragpickers, books and reading, mother and child, families, family life [X], mother-child relationship, juvenile fiction / diversity & multicultural, juvenile fiction / people & places / asia [X], cambodia