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Story 1: "All Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at the school. Jocki and his bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl." Story 2: "Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables....
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CHAO, G.
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TEEN FICTION CHAO, G.
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths-- that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION PAN, E.X.R.
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TEEN FICTION PAN, E.X.R.
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.
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Bone witch volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION CHUPECO, R.
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TEEN FICTION CHUPECO, R.
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Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION AZAD, N.
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TEEN FICTION AZAD, N.
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Fatima lives in the city of Noor, on the Silk Road, which is currently protected by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, from attacks by the violent and ruthless Shayateen djinn--but Fatima was infused with the fire of the Ifrit who died saving her when she was four years old, and when one of the most important Ifrit dies she finds herself drawn into the intrigues of the court, the affairs of the djinn, and the very real dangers of a magical battlefield....
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J 940.5317 LOH
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J 940.5317 LOH
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"The events surrounding the U.S. Japanese internment camps during World War II did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center as readers act out the scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION LEE, S.
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TEEN CD FICTION LEE, S.
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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'"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION YOON, D.
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TEEN FICTION YOON, D.
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"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 305.895 YOO
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TEEN 305.895 YOO
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN SUMMER READING 305.895 YOO
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TEEN SUMMER READING 305.895 YOO
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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN 650.1 PHA
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TEEN 650.1 PHA
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No matter who you are or where you come from, this book can help you define success, envision it, and make it happen in school, in your personal life, and at work. Get ready to awaken all the awesomeness that is already inside of you --Provided by Publisher.
11) Internment
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION KHAN, S.
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TEEN FICTION KHAN, S.
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Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
13) Loveboat, Taipei
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Loveboat volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION WEN, A.H.
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TEEN FICTION WEN, A.H.
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When Ever Wong's parents sent her away fro the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
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Ms. Marvel (2014) volume 1
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J SUPERHERO MS. MARVEL
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J SUPERHERO MS. MARVEL
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
GRAPHIC NOVEL Ms. MARVEL
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GRAPHIC NOVEL Ms. MARVEL
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Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City -- until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a secret behind them, as well. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to bear? Kamala has...
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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.
16) A phở love story
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Bảo Nguye̋n would describe himself as steady and strong: his grades are average, his social status unremarkable. He works at his parents' phở restaurant - as his parents' fifth favorite employee. Linh Mai would describe herself as a firecracker: stable when unlit, but full of potential for joy and fire. She dreams of pursuing a career in art, while working practically full-time at her family's phở restaurant. Bao and Linh have never even had...
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"10:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she's just performed her hit song "Heartbeat" in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She's about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. But right now? She's in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger. 11:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from...
18) Starfish
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION BOWMAN, A.D.
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TEEN FICTION BOWMAN, A.D.
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Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
19) A taste for love
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION YEN, J.
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TEEN FICTION YEN, J.
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Both high school senior Liza Yang and her mother share a love and talent for baking but disagree on the subject of dating, especially when Mrs. Yang turns her annual baking contest into a matchmaking scheme.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 1st Floor - Kids
J FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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J FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Teen
TEEN FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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TEEN FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
TEEN CD FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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TEEN CD FICTION FUKUDA, A.X.
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In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Lévy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his initial reluctance, their letters continue over the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.