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1) Interior Chinatown

Author

Yu, Charles

Series

Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf

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"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."-- Every day Willis Wu leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--...

2) Not your all-American girl

Author

Rosenberg, Madelyn

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Sixth-graders Lauren and Tara have always done everything together so it is only natural that they both try out for their middle school musical play, about an "all-American" girl in 1958; Tara gets the lead role, as usual, because in the teacher's mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese, does not fit the image of all-American girl--Lauren is hurt but resolved to support her friend, but her two grandmothers are furious and they intend to do something...

3) Things I'd rather do than die

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Deriso, Christine Hurley

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Ethan Garrett is a star athlete dating the most popular girl in school and a devout Christian. Jade Fulton abhors joining things, hates everyone at their high school (except her best friend, Gia), and considers herself agnostic. When they are locked in an aerobics room overnight, their confinement forces them to push past the labels they've given each other, and learn there's a lot more to the other person than meets the eye. As they go back to their...

4) Class act

Author

Craft, Jerry

Series

New kid volume 2

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Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.