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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
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"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself"--
2) Front desk
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
JEF - Asian Pacific Islander Authors (Chapter Books)
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
JEF - Asian Pacific Islander Authors (Chapter Books)
MCL - Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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Sadiq and his friends are starting a video game club at school and planning a tournament for the whole school to participate in, but their teacher reminds them that they also have to have a service pledge, and they are not really sure how video games fit in with the goal of helping others--until a visit to an assisted living home where his mother volunteers gives him an idea.
4) You are life
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Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
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Sadiq volume 3
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Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
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Sadiq's third grade class has no classroom pet! Not only that, but Sadiq has never had a pet of his own. So Sadiq gathers some classmates to help him solve this problem. What kind of pet would be perfect for their class? A lizard? A bunny? A parakeet? Soon it's up to Sadiq and friends to convince their teacher and classmates that they have found the perfect pet match.
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - National Book Award
JEF - Historical Fiction - Juvenile
MCL - National Book Award
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
11) Where I belong
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"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
13) All my rage
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MCL - National Book Award
MCL - Printz Award
MLA - Main's Best Books of 2022
WAS-Colleen Hoover Read-Alikes
MCL - Printz Award
MLA - Main's Best Books of 2022
WAS-Colleen Hoover Read-Alikes
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A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family....
16) Ransacker
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Berserker volume 2
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Sissel Hemstad and her siblings have been living peacefully in small-town Montana, but while two men, one a mine owner and one a Pinkerton spy, are courting her, using her gift as a Ransacker could doom them all.
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DEN - Kids + Teens: Hispanic Heritage Month
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
MCL - Pura Belpré Award
DEN - Kids + Teens: Jewish-American Heritage Month
MCL - Pura Belpré Award
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In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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As they plant trees and do other environmental projects for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Russian immigrants Pavel and Anatoly are happy to find employment during the Great Depression, but when other workers accuse them of not being "real Americans," Pavel and Anatoly learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner, newly designated by Congress as the national anthem.
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