Annotation:Dong-mei (a.k.a. "Grace") is the adopted Chinese daughter of a family in suburban Ontario. Encouraged by her adopted family to get in touch with her roots, Dong-mei goes to China alone, carrying the note she had when she was found on the steps of Yangzhou orphanage. Grade 9 - up

Annotation:Based on the author's own experiences, this story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII is "a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility" Grade 9 - up

Annotation:In 1885, a lonely illegitimate Caucasian boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming. Grade 5 - 9

Annotation:Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment. Grade 7 - 10

Annotation:Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. Grade 6 - 9

Annotation:Grade 5 - 9