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"Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
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"Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
43) Loveboat forever
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[2023]
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In desperate need of a new image, seventeen-year-old music prodigy Pearl Wong attends Chien Tan, the Taipei summer program, but instead enters an extravagant world where there's more awaiting her than she ever could've imagined--like a romantic entanglement with a mysterious suitor.
44) Too much rain
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When heavy rain causes flooding, Katie Woo and her parents spend the night in a shelter
46) A happy day
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Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy
50) Outrun the moon
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"On the eve of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
52) Three keys
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"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Provided by publisher.
54) Watercress
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[2021]
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Human Who Doesn't Look Or Live Like You
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
Summer Reading Challenge: Read an Award-winning Book
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
Summer Reading Challenge: Read an Award-winning Book
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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American Historical Fiction (Grade 11 Summer Reading 2023)
Teen Summer Challenge: Books by Authors of Color
Teen Summer Challenge: Books by Authors of Color
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
59) Fly high, Katie!
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Katie is flying to Florida to visit her grandmother, but she has never been on an airplane before.
60) My year abroad
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2021.
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"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
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