Laurence Yep
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American boy and his friends--a monkey, a dragon, a rat, and a tiger--must ensure that a magical phoenix egg does not fall into evil hands in the underwater dragon kingdom.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
8) Dragonwings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
11) Bravo, Mia!
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Mia's chances of skating in regionals are threatened by a family crisis, but she determines to face the possibility that she won't get to compete with determination and grace.
14) Auntie Tiger
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this version of Red Riding Hood set in China, Big Sister sets aside her differences with Little Sister to rescue her from a tiger in disguise.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
17) Dragon steel
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To free her clan from slavery at underwater forges, the dragon princess Shimmer and her human companion Thorn combat the Dragon King's jealousy and treachery.
18) The lost garden
Author
Publisher
Beech Tree Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.
19) Sea glass
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American boy whose father wants him to be good in sports finally asserts his right to be himself.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Gim Lew leaves his village in China to accompany his father to America, but before they go he must prepare for a grueling test that he must pass--without stuttering--at California's Angel Island, where officials strive to keep out unwanted immigrants. Includes facts about immigration from China and the experiences of the author's family.