Namioka, Lensey

In feudal Japan a young ronin (unemployed samurai) visits the village of his former teacher where he and his companion find it being terrorized by both bandits and a mysterious murderer.

Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.

Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.

Third Sister and her siblings try to help Eldest Brother, the most talented musician in the Yang family, find work to pay for a new violin.

While her younger siblings have embraced many American customs since moving from China to Seattle, Yinglan Yang clings to her Chinese heritage, so her brother and sister hatch a plan to convert her to American culture.

Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl.

Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.