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42) The name jar
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
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OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
WCD Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
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After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
43) Only the best
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Girls only volume 2
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Jenna has devoted her life to gymnastics and her hard work is beginning to pay off, but then her family receives word that they can adopt a Korean baby boy -- and the adoption date is the same day as Jenna's gymnastics meet.
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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
46) Project Mulberry
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While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
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Uprooted from her life in New York City and relocated to her father's villa in Seoul, sixteen-year-old Melody soon discovers the alluring aspects of living in Korea as well as family secrets as she struggles to reconcile her identity in a place she is expected to call home.
Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, Melody is shocked to learn that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York City to join her father in...
48) Dog sled star
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"Shawn and Kat Choi need to find a way to channel a playful Siberian husky's energy before the dog is banned from the park forever"--
49) Blue ribbon pup
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"Shawn and Kat Choi need to find a way to keep a bichon frise under control before their family forces them to close their Doggie day care business for good"--
50) Library buddy
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"Shawn and Kat Choi try to find a new activity that a goldendoodle with failing eyesight will love"--
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NO HAY NADA QUE NO PUEDAS LOGRAR SI SIGUES UN PLAN.
INCLUSO ENAMORARTE. Cuando Desi conoce a Luca decide que ha llegado la hora de dejar atrás su mala racha en el amor y, para conquistarlo, se vale de su mayor talento: la organización.
Robando ideas de los dramas de tv coreanos, realiza una serie de pasos para llegar a su corazón. Al fin y al cabo, todo en su vida lo ha conseguido con un plan y cada drama tiene su final feliz.
¿Qué podría salir...
52) The surrendered
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Korean born June Han has forged a life thousands of miles from her birthplace: she has built a business in New York, survived a husband, borne a child. But her past holds more secrets than she has ever been able to tell, and thirty years after her escape from war-ravaged Korea, the time has come for her to confront them.
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"A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims... Through the lives of an indelible array of individuals--musicians, housewives and pastors, children and grandparents, the men and women who own the dry cleaners...
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Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but a more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her. Easing into middle age, Siobhan would generally rather have a glazed donut than a romance, but when an old friend asks Siobhan to find her daughter who has disappeared from her dorm, the rookie private detective's search begins...
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Mindy Kim volume 6
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"Mindy Kim loves food ... When a local pizza place advertises a trivia competition, Mindy can't believe that the big prize is unlimited pizza for a whole year! Mindy is confident she and her dad can take the top spot. But Dad is worried he might not understand all the cultural references. And he wants Mindy to know that the most important thing is to always try your best, even if you don't win"--
56) Burning midnight
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"Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn't pay much-Alex Holliday's stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers-but it helps him and his mom make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant-colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the...
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2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
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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.
58) Finding my voice
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Seventeen-year-old Ellen Sung just wants to be like everyone else at her all-white school. But hers is the only Korean American family in town, and her classmates in Arkin, Minnesota, will never let her forget that she's different. At the start of senior year, Ellen finds herself falling for Tomper Sandel, a football player who is popular and blond and undeniably cute ... and to her surprise, he falls for her, too. Now Ellen has a chance at a life...
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"Rowan Kelly knows she's lucky. After all, if she hadn't been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones--they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she'll never know if she has her mother's eyes, or if she'd be in America at all had her adoptive parents been able to conceive.Rowan...
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Song Lee books volume 3
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Harry plots revenge against Sidney, the class tattletale, when Miss Mackle's second graders go on a field trip to the pond.
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