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Elaine and the Flying Frog
by Heidi ChangElaine Chow is on her way to school, thinking about her present circumstances, and she makes up a story to go along with her friends.
Spring Pearl
by Laurence YepCalled boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
The Serpent's Children (Golden Mountain Chronicles
by Laurence YepIn nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.
Ho-Limlim
by Keizaburo Tejima and Hisakazu Fujimura and Cathy HiranoAfter one last foray far from his home, an aging rabbit decides he prefers to rest in his own garden and let his children and grandchildren bring him good things to eat.
Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
by Katherine PatersonNewbery Medal author Paterson presents the story of Wang Lee, the young son of starving peasants in 1850's China. Seized by bandits and carried away from home during the Taiping Rebellion, Wang Lee meets Mai Lin when members of her undercover society save him from his captors.
Good Luck Gold and Other Poems
by Janet S. WongThis is the first book of poems by a young Asian-American poet