United States: Chinese Americans

  • Yep, Laurence.
    Child of the owl
    A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
    Educ. Res. PS 3575 .E6 C5 1990
  • Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-
    Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
    Educ. Res. Bushner CT 275 .M45
  • Yin.
    Coolies
    A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
    Educ. Res. PS 3575 .I5 C6 2001
  • Yep, Laurence.
    Dragonwings
    In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
    Educ. Res. PS 3575 .E6 D7
  • Blumberg, Rhoda.
    Full steam ahead : the race to build a transcontinental railroad
    Educ. Res. HE 2791 .U55 B58 19
  • Levine, Ellen.
    I hate English!
    When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to adjust to school and learn the alien sounds of English.
    Educ. Res. Bushner PS 3562 .E8
  • Lord, Bette.
    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
    In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
    Educ. Res. PS 3562 .O7 I5 1984
  • Mak, Kam.
    My Chinatown : one year in poems
    A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, the Chinatown of his new American city.
    Educ. Res. Bushner PS 3613 .A4
  • Lee, Milly.
    Nim and the war effort
    In her determination to prove that an American can win the contest for the war effort, Nim does something which leaves her Chinese grandfather both bewildered and proud.
    Educ. Res. PS 3562 .E368 N5 19
  • Tamarin, Alfred H.
    Voyaging to Cathay : Americans in the China trade
    Traces the earliest contacts between the United States and China from the years following the American Revolution until the advent of the steamship.
    Educ. Res. HF 3120 .T35 1976
  • Yep, Laurence.
    When the circus came to town
    An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year- old girl at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face.
    Educ. Res. PS 3575 .E6 W5 2002