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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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With the help of his popular Uncle Chester, a young Chinese American boy tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954. Includes an afterword with information about the Chinese customs portrayed in the story.
2) Dragon road
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Golden mountain chronicles volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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In 1939, unable to find regular jobs because of the Great Depression, long-time friends Cal Chin and Barney Young tour the country as members of a Chinese American basketball team.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1983 seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has a lot to worry about--his bar mitzvah is coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, do not like each other, he is beginning to notice girls, and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter just in case the Cold War heats up.
6) The comeback
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.--
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A series of 24 lectures designed as an introduction to the key ideas of the world's diverse philosophical traditions. Using the orientation of Western thought as a departure, the course considers a number of the worldviews originating in Africa, the Americas, India, China, and Japan.
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British secret agent, 007 James Bond, is sent to North Korea to infiltrate the renegade military unit under officer Colonel Moon. The mission is sabotaged. Colonel Moon is killed and his second-in-command Zao is injured. James is captured, tortured and interrogated. 14 months later, Bond is released and traded for Zao. James' boss, M, relieves him of his 007 status. James sets out to get his revenge against those who set him up. He tracks down Zao...
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