chinese americans

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chinese americans

Christie & Company in the year of the dragon

1997
Three roommates and amateur sleuths try to deal with a Chinese gang that is threatening the family of a friend.

Second daughter

growing up in China, 1930-1949
1984
Provides a first-hand view of life in a relatively privileged Chinese family just before the Communist takeover.

A song for Sung Li

a story about the San Francisco earthquake
2003
Shortly before San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, a twelve-year-old orphan named Sung Li finds a box containing a locket with a photograph and an address, which lead her to a better life away from her demanding aunt and cousin.

Land of promise

1992
Laura and the other inhabitants of Mansfield, Missouri, face the problems of racism and a clash of cultures when Chinese immigrants try to settle in the pioneer community.

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

1997
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

My friend Mei Jing

2009
Monifa, an African-American girl, befriends Mei Jing, a Chinese girl, after they are sat next to one another at school, and Monifa describes how Mei Jing has taught her about the Chinese culture and traditions.

The woman warrior

memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
1976
A memoir of the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants who lived within the traditions and fears of the Chinese past as well as the realities of the alien modern American culture.

Sam and the lucky money

1999
Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year.

The puzzle of the paper daughter

a Julie mystery
2010
In 1970s San Francisco, Julie and her best friend Ivy learn about Chinese immigration in the early twentieth century when they investigate a mysterious doll theft.

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