Amy Tan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades. A celebrated novel in the tradition of Alice Adams and Margaret Atwood from the bestselling author of The Kitchen God's Wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The bonesetter's daughter is an excavation of the human spirit : the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of love that enables us to recover in memory what we have lost in grief. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
On an ill-fated art expedition to the southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans find themselves deep in the Burma jungle, where they encounter a tribe waiting the return of the leader and the mystical book of wisdom that will protect them from the ravages and destruction of the Myanmar military regime.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
"In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 2016, author Amy Tan grew overwhelmed by the state of the world: Hatred and misinformation became a daily presence on social media, and the country felt more divisive than ever. In search of peace, Tan turned toward the natural world just beyond her window and, specifically, the birds flocking to the feeders in her yard. But what began as an attempt to find solace turned into something far greater--an opportunity to savor quiet moments during...
10) The Moon Lady
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Ming Miao tells her kittens about the antics of one of their ancestors, Sagwa of China, that produced the unusual markings they have had for thousands of years.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Vic Brown did not want to go to camp this summer. It's nice being back with her friends in the woods of New Hampshire, but Vic still can't forget about the secret reason her mom wanted her and her brother out of the house--or how much her family is going to change. When her homelife is blowing up, it can be hard to focus on campfires and canoeing. But there is something about summer and surprises that goes together like blueberry pancakes and maple...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America...
18) Cat and mouse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sagwa loves to play hide-and-seek with her mouse friends, but Alley Cat tells her cool cats don't play with mice.
19) Bow wow meow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Sagwa meets her cousin, Cha-Siu, for the first time, she is confused -- he is a puppy who acts like a cat!
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, it would be decades before Ms. Tan would come to fully understand how her mother's self-destructive tendencies were rooted in watching her own mother kill herself after being forced into the former marital system of concubinage. This painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. An interweaving of archival imagery, artful animation and live performance...