chinese americans

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Ling & Ting

not exactly the same!
2010
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.

Henry and the kite dragon

2004
In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so.

The Joy Luck Club

1990
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.

Child of the owl

1990
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Alvin Ho

allergic to dead bodies, funerals, and other fatal circumstances
2012
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend passes away and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.

Chang's paper pony

1993
Chang, the son of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco during the 1850's gold rush, wants a pony but cannot afford one until his friend Big Pete finds a solution.

Dragonwings

1975
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Red, white, and blue and Katie Woo!

2011
As Katie, her parents, and friends celebrate Independence Day with a parade, games, a picnic, and fireworks, the few things that go wrong do not interfere with their fun.

The big lie

2010
When Jake loses his brand new toy airplane, Katie Woo lies and says that she does not know where it is.

The journal of Wong Ming-Chung

a Chinese miner
2000
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.

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