chinese americans

In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.

Alan Lee tries to catch the singing cricket in his mother's office.

A young Chinese girl beginning a new life in America describes how her difficult adjustment was made more endurable when she made her first American friend.

"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.

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.

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.

Text and photographs depict the celebration of Chinese New Year by Chinese Americans living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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

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

Describes six-year-old Ernie Wong's preparations, at home and in school, for the Chinese New Year celebrations and his first public performance of the lion dance.