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SPOTLIGHT ON........Easy Readers
 

Celebrate Asian American Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Asian Americans.

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Bee-bim Bop!

 Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books, c2005)
Shelf Number: EASY/PAR

A child, eager for a favorite meal, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting.

Fortune Cookie Fortunes

 Grace Lin (Knopf/Random House, c2004)
Shelf Number: EASY/LIN

After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true. Includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie.

The Happiest Tree: a Yoga Story

Uma Krishnaswami (Lee & Low, c2005)
Shelf Number: EASY/KRI

Embarrassed by her clumsiness, eight-year-old Meena, an Asian Indian American girl, is reluctant to appear in the school play until she gains self-confidence by practicing yoga.

The Have a Good Day Café

 Frances Park and Ginger Park (Lee & Low, c2005)
Shelf Number: EASY/PAR

Mike's grandmother, who has moved from Korea to live with Mike and his family in the United States , inspires him to suggest an idea to help their floundering food cart business.

In the Leaves

 Huy Voun Lee (Holt, c2005)
Shelf Number: EASY/LEE

On a visit to a farm, Xiao Ming shows his friends the new Chinese characters he has learned by explaining that the characters are like pictures.

Just Add One Chinese Sister

 Patricia McMahon and C.C. McCarthy (Boyds Mills Press, c2005)
Shelf Number: EASY/MCM

Claire and her mother are working together on a scrapbook as they relive their first days and hours together following Claire's arrival from her birth home in China . Claire's big brother had kept a journal as he anticipated the day his new sister would arrive, and these entries also become part of their book of memories.

 

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