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"Hip, entertaining...imaginative."—Kirkus, starred review *"Essential." —Min Jin Lee * "A Herculean effort."—Lisa Ling * "A must-read."—Ijeoma Oluo * "Get two copies."—Shea Serrano * "A book we've needed for ages." —Celeste Ng * "Accessible, informative, and fun." —Cathy Park Hong * "This book has serious substance...Also,...
Publisher
MTV Entertainment Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Through a series of essays, poems and comics, thirty creators--including Melissa de la Cruz, Edmund Lee, Nathan Ramos-Park and Ellen K. Pao--give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity.
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English
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"The Partition is an updated exploration of Asian American identity, this time with characters who are presumptive model minorities in the arts, academia, and media. Spanning decades, these nine novelistic stories traverse an array of cities, from Tokyo to Boston, Honolulu to El Paso, touching upon transient encounters in local bars, restaurants, and hotels. Culminating in a three story cycle about a Hollywood actor, The Partition incisively examines...
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English
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How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the...
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English
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Description
"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Help Doug find his dog by following the clues he gives you to pat, tickle, and call to the dogs until you find the right one.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between...
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Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiling forty influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, this collective biography of people who have helped change the world in countless ways pays tribute to their courage and determination to make a difference.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers but by drawing from the strength of the powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment.
Publisher
Arthur Chu Film
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed documentary follows the controversial 11-time Jeopardy! champion Arthur Chu as he attempts to leverage his viral celebrity to make positive social change online.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai's friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby's...
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