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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this program, Tomiko Morimoto shares her inspiring story of survival and triumph in the face of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. As a teenager, she watched the bombing from her schoolyard, losing her mother and grandfather in the attack. She went on to marry an American GI, become a professor at Vassar College, and at age 90 to advocate for world peace.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"To save the Clarktown Community Center, which houses her parents’ Chinese school, Lily and her fellow students must master a traditional Chinese dance in time for the center’s first showcase and receive some unexpected help from her rival, Max Zhang"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a racist encounter, an Asian American girl decides to fight hate by spreading love. Aiko learns that Japanese Americans were once put in prison camps in her own country-the US-and that there are still some people who don't like her, for no reason. But Aiko also learns that people respond to acts of kindness.
5) Memory piece
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Just a date . . . or a twist of fate? When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has inspired her career as an artist, as well as the large art installations she makes with (obviously) red string. That is until artist's block strikes and Rooney begins to question everything. But then fate leads...
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