Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395743805
Category : Chinese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395743805
Category : Chinese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.

Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear

Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440409179
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Book Description
Everyone in the Yang family is a talented musician except for nine-year-old Yingtao, the youngest Yang. Even after years of violin lessons from his father, Yingtao cannot make beautiful music. Now that his family has moved from China to Seattle, Yingtao wants to learn English and make new friends at school. Still, he must make time to practice his violin for an important family recital to help his father get more students. Yingtao is afraid his screeching violin will ruin the recital. But he's even more afraid to tell his family that he has found something he likes better than music. Together he and his new friend Matthew think of a sure way to save the recital. They are certain nothing will go wrong.

Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family

Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0440412315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Book Description
Yingmei Yang has changed her name to Mary now that she's learning how to be American. It's hard since her family sticks to their Chinese customs, which can be embarrassing in public. Still, Mary wants to be best friends with popular Holly Hanson. She sees her chance when she adopts one of Holly's kittens. The trouble is that Mary's family can't afford a cat and it could damage their prized musical instruments. To prove her friendship to Holly, Mary must find a way to keep the kitten a secret from her impossible family. It won't be easy!

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307434060
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Third Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient tradition. But Ailin loves to run away from her governess and play games with her male cousins. Knowing she will never run again once her feet are bound, Ailin rebels and refuses to follow this torturous tradition. As a result, however, the family of her intended husband breaks their marriage agreement. And as she enters adolescence, Ailin finds that her family is no longer willing to support her. Chinese society leaves few options for a single woman of good family, but with a bold conviction and an indomitable spirit, Ailin is determined to forge her own destiny. Her story is a tribute to all those women whose courage created new options for the generations who came after them.

An Ocean Apart, a World Away

An Ocean Apart, a World Away PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307433099
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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While most 16-year-old girls are planning their weddings, Xueyan, known as Yanyan, has no interest at all in marriage. She is fascinated by medicine. In China in 1921, women rarely attend university, let alone medical school. Still, Yanyan is determined to become a doctor. But Yanyan’s feelings about marriage change when she meets Liang Baoshu. An outstanding scholar and martial arts student, Baoshu is passionate and dangerous. He is determined to rid China of the foreigners who occupy it and restore power to the Manchu dynasty. Life with him would be an adventure. But when Yanyan realizes that being with Baoshu would also mean sacrificing her dream of becoming a doctor, she faces the most difficult decision of her life. And her choice leads to an entirely new adventure an ocean away in America—where Yanyan is the foreigner.

Half and Half

Half and Half PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 030752969X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
FIONA CHENG IS half and half: Her father is Chinese and her mother is Scottish. Fiona looks more like her father than her mother, so people always expect her to be more interested in her Chinese half than her Scottish half. Lately even Fiona’s confused about who she really is. “A realistic, gentle and funny tale.”—Detroit News & Free Press “Readers will identify with Fiona’s struggle to fit in.”—Publishers Weekly

Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs

Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440418023
Category : Brothers and sisters / Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Third Sister and her siblings try to help Eldest Brother, the most talented musician in the Yang family, find work to pay for a new violin

Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers

Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613287081
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Yinglan Yang misses China and doesn't want to adopt the American customs, like her brother and sister have done. So her siblings try to help her develop friends by setting her up with Paul Eng, a Chinese American baseball player. They hope she won't find out what they've done.

April and the Dragon Lady

April and the Dragon Lady PDF Author: Lensey Namioka
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152008864
Category : Chinese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, sixteen-year-old April Chen fights for her independence.

My Name Is Maria Isabel

My Name Is Maria Isabel PDF Author: Alma Flor Ada
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Book Description
A third grader realizes the importance of her name in this classic story of heritage and self-identity. For María Isabel Salazar López, the hardest thing about being the new girl in school is that the teacher doesn't call her by her real name. "We already have two Marías in this class," says her teacher. "Why don't we call you Mary instead?" But María Isabel has been named for her Papá's mother and for Chabela, her beloved Puerto Rican grandmother. Can she find a way to make her teacher see that if she loses her name, she's lost the most important part of herself?