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Pacy Lin books volume 3
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When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma's sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Tweens
Lectio Book Awards Nominee List 2024-2025
Lectio Book Awards Nominee List 2024-2025
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Twelve-year-old Pearl Li tries to gain her family's acceptance and save her favorite boba tea shop by selling her crocheted amigurumi dolls.
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"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona...
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[2020]
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"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
7) Candy shop
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When a boy and his aunt find that a bigot has written something on the sidewalk outside the candy shop owned by a new immigrant from Taiwan, they set out to comfort the owner.
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"The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, she figures that helping wait tables is her best option for putting her life back together. Even if that means having to put up with her mother, who is dead-set on finding her a husband. Lana’s love life soon becomes yesterday’s news once the restaurant’s property manager, Mr. Feng, turns...
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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"After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California. Their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired."--Provided by publisher.
10) Amah faraway
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2022.
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Nervous about visiting her grandmother in Taipei, Taiwan, a young girl soon adjusts to her unfamiliar surroundings and enjoys the adventure.
12) American panda
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2018.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
13) Hot pot night
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Food
National Hobby Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Food
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In this version of the classic Stone Soup tale, nobody in the apartment building has enough ingredients for dinner, so a Taiwanese child suggests that they have a community hot pot night. Everybody contributes something, bringing their diverse community together for a delicious meal. Includes a recipe for hot pot.
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2021.
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"When an American woman inherits the wealth of her Taiwanese family, she travels to confront them about their betrayals of the past in this stunning debut by Lyn Liao Butler. Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she's neither white enough nor Asian enough. Visiting her father in Taiwan as a child, Lexa thought she'd finally found a place where she belonged. But that...
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Pacy Lin books volume 1
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English
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Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
Immigrant Heritage Month - Tweens
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Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home.
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English
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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - Young Adults
Back to School - Young Adult
Back to School - Young Adult
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Seventeen-year-old Taiwanese American Olivia joins forces with a secret society of students intent on ending the school's culture around bullying--all while making friends and falling in love along the way.
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English
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Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He'd written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was humming, his OKCupid hand was strong, and he'd even hung fresh Ralph Lauren curtains to create the illusion of a bedroom in the tiny apartment he shared with his younger brother Evan, who ran their restaurant business. Then he fell in love--and everything fell apart....
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The author, one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars, is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus, the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night. Huang grew up on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, Florida, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While...
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