Laurence Yep
1) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 1903
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.
6) Mia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Mia has grown up playing ice hockey with her three older brothers and has the skills she needs to become a star hockey player. But she's tired of skating in her brothers' shadows and has decided to pursue her passion for figure skating instead. With the help of a new coach, Mia finds out whether she has what it takes to grow and compete as a figure skater.
7) City of fire
Author
Series
City trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.
Author
Publisher
Amer Girl Pub
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Isabelle finds a creative way to use her talent for fashion design to help her older sister Jade, who is performing the role of Clara in the Nutcracker ballet.
9) Isabelle
Author
Series
American Girl of the Year volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Isabelle, who attends a performing arts school in Washington, D.C., with her older sister, Jade, has a passion for ballet dancing but lacks self-confidence.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
11) Dragon cauldron
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
A dragon named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend the magic cauldron needed to repair the dragon's home.
12) Dragon's gate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. Sequel to "Mountain light."
13) Child of the owl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Author
Series
Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
Author
Series
Dragon's guide volume 2
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Winnie is challenged to adapt to a new school for girls where teaching is anything but ordinary and where the eclectic student body includes magicals as well as humans, and while Winnie uses her wits to find her own way, crusty dragon Miss Drake is secretly trying to discover and foil a new plot by Winnie's grandfather to gain custody of her.
16) The star fisher
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s.
20) Angelfish
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Robin, a young ballet dancer who is half Chinese and half white, works in a fish store for Mr. Tsow, a brusque Chinese who accuses her of being a half-person and who harbors a bitter secret.