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1) 1001 cranes
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With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
2) Ahimsa
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F Kel
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F Kel
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F Kel
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F Kel
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Bellevue Middle - Teen Fiction
F Kel
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F Kel
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When her mother is jailed for being one of Gandhi's freedom fighters, ten-year-old Anjali overcomes her own prejudices and continues her mother's social reform work, befriending Untouchable children and working to integrate her school.
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Antioch High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.59 YAN
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741.59 YAN
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Apollo Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
GRA F YAN
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GRA F YAN
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 YAN
1 available
741.5 YAN
1 available
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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.
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Pandava volume 1
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F Cho
1 available
F Cho
1 available
Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
F Cho
1 available
F Cho
1 available
Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F Cho
1 available
F Cho
1 available
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Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Audiobook
PLA F CAR
1 available
PLA F CAR
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Shwab Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Cho
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PLA F Cho
1 available
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Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
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Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake. Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can't resist a nibble? In this stunning, heartwarming original story that shines as bright as the stars in the sky, Newbery Honor author Grace Lin explains the phases of the moon.
6) Boxers
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Boxers & Saints volume 1
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Apollo Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
GRA F YAN
1 available
GRA F YAN
1 available
Bellevue Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.59 YAN
1 available
741.59 YAN
1 available
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.59 YAN
1 available
741.59 YAN
1 available
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In China in 1898 bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F LAI
1 available
F LAI
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
F LAI
1 available
F LAI
1 available
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Fiction
F Lai
1 available
F Lai
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A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
8) Dragon Pearl
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Thousand worlds volume 1
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F LEE
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F LEE
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction
F LEE
1 available
F LEE
1 available
Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F LEE
5 available
F LEE
5 available
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Apollo Middle - Teen Audiobook
PLA F Lee
1 available
PLA F Lee
1 available
Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Lee
1 available
PLA F Lee
1 available
Cole Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Lee
1 available
PLA F Lee
1 available
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Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces who is accused of abandoning his battle cruiser to go in search of a mystical object called the Dragon Pearl. In her quest to find her brother and clear his name, Min will have to use her fox magic to fight off gamblers, pirates, and ghosts.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E Le
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E Le
1 available
Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E Le
1 available
E Le
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Le
1 available
E Le
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A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
10) Front desk
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Front desk volume 1
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F YAN
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F YAN
1 available
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F Yan
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F Yan
1 available
Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
F YAN
1 available
F YAN
1 available
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Checked Out
eBook
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Granbery Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Yan
1 available
PLA F Yan
1 available
Robert Churchwell Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Yan
1 available
PLA F Yan
1 available
Rosebank Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Yan
1 available
PLA F Yan
1 available
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E SAY
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E SAY
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Say
1 available
E Say
1 available
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E SAY
1 available
E SAY
1 available
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Ruby Major Elementary - Kids Audiobook
BK CD #95
1 available
BK CD #95
1 available
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A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
12) Hello, universe
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F Kel
1 available
F Kel
1 available
Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
F KEL
1 available
F KEL
1 available
Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F Kel
1 available
F Kel
1 available
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
1 available
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
1 available
Cole Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
1 available
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Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren't friends. But when Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well, Kaori, Gen, and...
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F RES
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F RES
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
F RES
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F RES
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction
F RES
1 available
F RES
1 available
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Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F KEL
1 available
F KEL
1 available
Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
F KEL
1 available
F KEL
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Kids Fiction
F KEL
1 available
F KEL
1 available
eBook
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Apollo Middle - Teen Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
1 available
Chadwell Elementary - Kids Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
1 available
Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Audiobook
PLA F Kel
1 available
PLA F Kel
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"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
15) Listen, Slowly
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This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award–winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family.
Listen, Slowly is a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year!
A California girl born and raised, Mai can't wait to spend her vacation
...16) The lotus seed
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E GAR
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E GAR
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Bellshire Elementary - Everyone
E GAR
1 available
E GAR
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Chadwell Elementary - Kids Fiction
F GAR
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F GAR
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A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.
17) The name jar
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E Cho
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E Cho
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E Cho
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E Cho
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E Cho 31 August 2017
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E Cho 31 August 2017
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After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
18) The night diary
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction
F HIR
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F HIR
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Fiction
F HIR
1 available
F HIR
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
F Hir
2 available
F Hir
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Audiobook
Talking Book F Hir
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Talking Book F Hir
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Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
19) Pashmina
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Amqui Elementary - Kids Comic/Graphic
741.5 Cha
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741.5 Cha
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Antioch High - Teen Comic/Graphic
741.5 Cha
1 available
741.5 Cha
1 available
Antioch Middle - Teen Comic/Graphic
GRA Cha
2 available
GRA Cha
2 available
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Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For...
20) Secret coders
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Secret coders volume 1
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Comic/Graphic
741.59 YAN
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741.59 YAN
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Comic/Graphic
741.5 Yan vol.1
1 available
741.5 Yan vol.1
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Kids Comic/Graphic
741.5 Yan vol.1
1 available
741.5 Yan vol.1
1 available
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"Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!" --