chinese americans

Angie Wu finds herself the center of attention in the fourth grade when she starts sharing her Guatemalan trouble dolls, supposedly able to make troubles go away, but then her friends get mad when the magic does not work for them.

When Katie's parents take her to the library one rainy Saturday, she finds a lot of her friends and, with the help of librarian Miss Bliss, takes home some "super-duper" books. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and an interview.

When her maternal grandfather comes from China, Helen, who is biracial, develops a special bond with him despite their age and language differences.

Eleven-year-old Callie tries to cope with her new responsibilities when the family's changed circumstances force them to move to a new San Francisco neighborhood and leave her in charge of her younger brother.

Describes the Angel Island, California immigration procedures from three different perspectives, a paper son, a Chinese immigrant wife, and a missionary.

A child who loves visiting museums with her grandmother is sad when Nainai returns to China, but her father takes her to see something special where signs of Nainai are in every corner. Includes facts about the Yu Yu Tang house on display at the Peabody Essex Museum, directions for making a tea towel apron, and other activities.

Lili loves to cook little dumplings called baos with her grandmother, but when cabbage is needed, Lili races up and down the stairs of her grandmother's apartment building to find the ingredient and help the other grandmothers borrow ingredients for different dumplings, from Jamaican meat patties and Italian ravioli to Lebanese fatayer and more.

"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch. Anchoring herself with stories of Auntie Po, Mei navigates the difficulty and politics of lumber camp work and her growing romantic feelings for her friend Bee. The Legend of Auntie Po is about who gets to own a myth, and about immigrant families and communities holding on to rituals and traditions while staking out their own place in America"--From the publisher's web site.

Katie finds a sick kitten, and when her father comes home they take the kitty to Dr. Wong's veterinarian clinic, where they find all different kinds of pets waiting for the doctor's attention.

The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.