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22) The interpreter
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A striking first novel about the dark side of the American Dream.
Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family's history. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.
24) I'll be the one
Author
Series
I'll be the one volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
Author
Series
Lia Park volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Twelve-year-old Lia Park must venture to the undersea kingdom of the Dragon King in Korea to save her parents from an evil diviner.
27) No kimchi for me
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
"Yoomi hates stinky spicy kimchi--until Grandma makes kimchi pancakes for her!"--
29) Wait for me
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father.
33) Frankly in love
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
34) Better than best
Author
Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 6
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Filled with competition fever, Jenna and her gymnastics teammates lose sight of their goal to work as a unit.
Author
Series
Gifted clans volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Thirteen year-old Riley was not born to be a leader, but the magical community thinks she and her adopted brother, Dahl, are meant to lead the world into the Age of the Final Eclipse, so now the one thing Riley must do is believe in herself.
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 1
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When their new Korean sisters do not arrive at the airport, Abby and Carly have a mystery to solve, with God's help.
38) Dear Juno
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although Juno, a Korean American boy, cannot read the letter he receives from his grandmother in Seoul, he understands what it means from the photograph and dried flower that are enclosed and decides to send a similar letter back to her.
39) Anna K away
Author
Series
Anna K volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Anna K spends a summer with her father and his family in South Korea, while in the United States, Lolly and Steven, Kimmie and Dustin, and Bea all face relationship issues.
40) The name jar
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.