Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen dreams of being a figure skating champion, but a remarkably talented new girl at the arena and a racist classmate at school test her resolve.
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CRRL Kids: Chapter Books for Asian American & Pacific Islander Month
Experience the lives of Asian American and Pacific Islander students who grapple with all the usual challenges of growing up, along with discovering their cultural identities.
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- In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a 12-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with and ultimately rises above the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.
- A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
- One summer, 14-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.
- Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan - reinvented as…
- Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself.
- Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, 12-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.
- Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
- Sixth graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together, so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role because in the teacher's mind…
- Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? 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…
- Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview…
- When 11-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp, she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part.
- On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come…
- Hà and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the U.S., but it hasn't come easy. Hà has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job. Hà knows how hard starting over is…
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In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger…
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