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Nest in Springtime: A Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Book of Numbers
This book has won the 2013 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Juvenile Books).
Position: 242 (471 views)
The Shadow Hero
"In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret…
Position: 263 (464 views)
Front Desk
"Author Kelly Yang tells a story about the family of Chinese immigrants who has been struggling with every day’s life, from the view of a ten-year-old girl who takes over the front desk of a motel that her parents manage. With her parents, this…
Position: 85 (554 views)
Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
This book has won the 2010 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Non-Fiction).
Position: 336 (444 views)
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
"Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota...until now. Her mom's plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance (where she and her family are the only…
Position: 1064 (47 views)
Dragon Road: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1939
This book has won the 2009 CALA Best Book Award (Categroy: Young Adult Books).
Position: 177 (497 views)
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: the Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
"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…
Position: 518 (372 views)
The boy from Clearwater: Book 1
"Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Qingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai's…
Position: 1071 (38 views)
Interior Chinatown
"Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he…
Position: 374 (431 views)
Iron Widow
"Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk…
Position: 710 (283 views)
