Bitter Melon
Written by Cara Chow
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2012
Price: $9.99
Frances has one job in life: to get into Berkeley and become a doctor so that her mother's ambitions will be realized. And Frances doesn't think there's anything wrong with that, until the day she accidentally steps into a speech class and begins to discover a talent her mother wouldn't approve of.
Frances...
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Farewell to Manzanar
Written by Jeanne Houston and James D. Houston
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $8.99
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called...
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Crouching Tiger
Written by Ying Chang Compestine
Illustrated by Yan Nascimbene
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $16.99
A Chinese-American boy gains a new understanding of his Chinese grandfather in this celebratory story of family, martial arts, and the Chinese New Year.Vinson is very excited when his grandfather comes from China for a visit. When Grandpa practices tai chi in the garden, Vinson asks to learn, hoping it will...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $5.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $5.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #5: The New Year Dragon Dilemma
Written by Ron Roy
Illustrated by John Steven Gurney
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 144 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $12.99
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside of Asia! Their tour guide, Holden, is going to take them to the famous Chinese New Year parade. Best of all, Holden's girlfriend, Lily, is Miss Chinatown. She gets to ride a giant float and wear...
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A New Year's Reunion
A Chinese Story
Written by Li Qiong Yu
Illustrated by Zhu Chen Liang
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: October 31, 2011
Price: $15.99
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011!
Maomao's dad works many miles away, but he is coming home for New Year!Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $8.00
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho Collection: Books 3 and 4
Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made Catastrophes and Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $22.00
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, with a collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date. Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made CatastrophesIn the third hilarious book about Alvin Ho, a boy who’s afraid of
everything, includes his fear of a birthday party. What...
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The Alvin Ho Super Collection: Books 1-4
Written by Lenore Look
Read by Everette Plen
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $20.00
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, with a complete collection of the funniest and most touching Alvin Ho books to date.
Lenore Look’s touching, drop-dead-funny book about an Asian American second grader—with pictures by
New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham—has tons of boy appeal and is great for reluctant...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $6.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $18.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances
Written by Lenore Look
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $15.99
Here's the fourth book in the hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which is a
Kirkus Reviews Best Continuing Series."[E]ngaging and real, often laugh-out-loud funny...," raved
Kirkus in a starred review.
Everyone's favorite neurotic second grader is back, in the most touching Alvin Ho book to date. Alvin is facing something truly...
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Sylvia & Aki
Written by Winifred Conkling
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $16.99
Sylvia never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle; all she wanted was to enroll in school.
Aki never expected to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the Arizona desert; all she wanted was to stay on her family farm and finish the school year.
The...
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Sylvia & Aki
Written by Winifred Conkling
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 160 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $19.99
Sylvia never expected to be at the center of a landmark legal battle; all she wanted was to enroll in school.
Aki never expected to be relocated to a Japanese internment camp in the Arizona desert; all she wanted was to stay on her family farm and finish the school year.
The...
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Orchards
Written by Holly Thompson
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $9.99
Winner of the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature
An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults BookAfter a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—a half-Japanese, half-Jewish American—wonders who is responsible. She and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Hoping that Kana will reflect on her behavior, her...
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Bitter Melon
Written by Cara Chow
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $9.99
Frances, a Chinese-American student at an academically competitive school in San Francisco, has always had it drilled into her to be obedient to her mother and to be a straight-A student so that she can go to Med school. But is being a doctor what she wants? It has never even...
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Bringing In the New Year
Written by Grace Lin
Format: Trade Paperback, 34 pages
On Sale: December 14, 2010
Price: $7.99
This exuberant story follows a Chinese American family as they prepare for the Lunar New Year. Each member of the family lends a hand as they sweep out the dust of the old year, hang decorations, and make dumplings. Then it’s time to put on new clothes and celebrate with family...
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