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Amy Wu volume 1
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English
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2023 Monarch Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
2024 Monarch Award
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2024 Monarch Award
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Amy is determined to make a perfect dumpling like her parents and grandmother do, but hers are always too empty, too full, or not pinched together properly.
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards (SCPL-YS)
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
September Buzzworthy Books Kids
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"The origin stories of each Chinese dish told using the framework of Chinese cuisine-oftentimes based in folklore, both ancient and contemporary"--
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English
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AAPI Fiction
Lunar New Year
OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Staff Picks March 2021
Lunar New Year
OLPL: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Staff Picks March 2021
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From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop...
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop...
4) I am golden
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English
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1st Grade Recommended Reads
2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
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This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
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English
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Lunar New Year - Picture Books
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
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"Chinese New Year is a time of new beginnings. Follow one little girl as she learns how to welcome the coming year and experience all the festivities surrounding it."-- P. [4] of cover.
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"After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school! And Mia's own plans to be a big writer are . . . stuck....
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English
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Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
Lunar New Year - Picture Books
Lunar New Year Children's Books
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
Lunar New Year - Picture Books
Lunar New Year Children's Books
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
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A Chinese American family prepares for and celebrates the Lunar New Year, in a book that includes endnotes discussing the customs and traditions of the Chinese New Year.
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English
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
Farms and Gardens
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
Farms and Gardens
Illinois Libraries Present Fall 2023
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A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all. Includes a recipe.
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Zachary Ying volume 1
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English
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
GPLD Best of 2022
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GPLD Best of 2022
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After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
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English
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OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
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This bilingual color concept book celebrates a rainbow of traditional objects seen during the Chinese New Year. Hóng is the color of explosive firecrackers! Jīn is the hue of lucky coins. Zŏng is the shade of sweet peanut puffs. Welcome to the festivities of the Chinese New Year, where symbolic gifts, foods, and objects come together in a celebration of beautiful colors. This vibrant, simple, and highly graphic bilingual book is the perfect introduction...
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Fourth of July - YOUTH
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD Fourth of July - YOUTH
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A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.
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English
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2023 March Book Madness at Blackhawk
2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
15) Private label
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English
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Worlds apart in their high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian Chen find refuge in one another.
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English
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"The obsessive mastermind behind one of the decade's best-selling cookbooks returns with the definitive English-language guide to the science and technique of cooking in a wok. J. Kenji López-Alt's debut cookbook, The Food Lab, revolutionized home cooking, selling more than half a million copies with its science-based approach to everyday foods. And for fast, fresh cooking for his family, there's one pan López-Alt reaches for more than any other:...
17) Grumpy New Year
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English
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Lunar New Year - Picture Books
Lunar New Year Children's Books
New Years
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
Lunar New Year Children's Books
New Years
OBD Lunar New Year (February) - YOUTH
Description
Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.
18) Double-happiness
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Told in verse, a Chinese American girl and her little brother protest the idea of moving, until their grandmother teaches them a special trick to make the change easier.
19) Watercress
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English
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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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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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English
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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2024 FPPL AAPI YA Reads
AANHPI 2023 - Teens
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2024 FPPL AAPI YA Reads
AANHPI 2023 - Teens
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Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.