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HEAR OUR VOICES Diverse Books for Every Student 1340 Ridgeview Drive McHenry, IL 60050-7048 877.899.8550 titlewave.com/classroom-high HEAR OUR VOICES Diverse Books For Every Student HEAR OUR VOICES Diverse Books For Every Student ALWAYS FREE titlewave.com/classroom-high SHIPPING in US and CANADA ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES The national bestseller that inspires us to become who we always wanted to be “Kwan’s debut is a “The book is a Chicago fun, over-the-top EVERYTHING romp through the I NEVER TOLD YOU coming-of-age story; A Novel NATIVE SPEAKER a love story of a pair unbelievable world By Celeste Ng By Chang Rae-Lee of the Asian jet set. “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a of opposites; and a this novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s true American—a native speaker. Park’s harsh Korean political saga by a A witty tongue-in- Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to cheek frolic about Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel woman who ultimately the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it transcended her what it means to be body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes AWARDS that has been keeping the family together is destroyed. that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his from really old Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his worries to become one WINNER - NAACP Image and a sensitive family portrait. coming to terms with his young son’s death. of the most popular first moneyAward for and Outstanding what it’s Literary Work READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE WINNER - Pen/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel ladies in history.” like to be crazy rich.” READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE —Publishers Weekly —Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, in the Pick of the Week New York Times Book Review n a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, In her memoir, Michelle Obama invites readers into Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most her world, chronicling the experiences that have THEY CALLED US ENEMY I WHEN THE EMPEROR iconic and compelling women of our era. As First shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side By George Takei, Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott; WAS DIVINE Lady of the U.S.A.—the first African American to of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing Illustrated by Harmony Becker By Julie Otsuka serve in that role—she helped create the most the demands of motherhood and work, to her time George Takei is known around the world for his role as Otsuka’s commanding novel paints a portrait of the welcoming and inclusive White House in history, spent at the world’s most famous address. With Sulu on Star Trek and his commitment to equal rights. But Japanese internment camps unlike any we’ve ever read. while also establishing herself as a powerful unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her in 1942, he was a four-year-old boy forced from his home With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and abroad, triumphs and her disappointments, telling her when FDR ordered every person of Japanese descent to single family to evoke the deracination of a generation and standing with her husband as he led America full story as she has lived it—in her own words be rounded up and shipped to “relocation centers,” where of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each from a through some of its most harrowing moments. and on her own terms. Becoming is the deeply they would be held for years under armed guard. They different point of view—the mother receiving the order Called Us Enemy is Takei’s graphic memoir of the strains to evacuate; the son in the desert encampment; and the Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, personal reckoning of a woman who has defied and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, and the family’s return to their home;—she has created a novel of crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to- expectations—and whose story inspires us to do way those experiences planted the seeds for his future. unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion. earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. the same. TEACHER’S GUIDE COMING TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE 2 877.899.8550 | (+1.708.884.5100) | Free shipping in the US and Canada For more information visit titlewave.com/classroom-high 19 AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The romantic comedy of manners that became the basis for the hit movie “Jane Austen, or maybe “Kwan’s debut is a CANE Edith Wharton, goes to fun, over-the-top By Jean Toomer; Introduction by THE MARCH TRILOGY Singapore, turning in romp through the George B. Hutchinson; By John Lewis and Foreword by Andrew Aydin; this lively, entertaining unbelievable world Zinzi Clemmons Illustrated by Nate Powell novel of manners. of the Asian jet set. First published in 1923 and told through a series of Congressman John Lewis is an American icon and key vignettes, Cane uses poetry, prose, and play-like dialogue figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to Kwan’s characters are A witty tongue-in- to create a window into the varied lives of African- justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama urban sophisticates par cheek frolic about Americans living in the rural South and urban North sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a during a time when Jim Crow laws pervaded and racism segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, excellence . A diverse what it means to be reigned. While critically acclaimed at the time, the book to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African- wasn’t widely popular, probably because it portrayed American president. Now Lewis presents March, a graphic set of characters and a from really old African Americans in an accurate and entirely human way. novel trilogy and a vivid first-hand account of his lifelong light, unstrained touch money and what it’s struggle for civil and human rights. WINNER - move Kwan’s story like to be crazy rich.” 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE along. An elegant —Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week comedy and an auspicious debut.” —Kirkus (starred review) READER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE A MIGHTY LONG WAY My Journey to Justice hen Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer Uproarious and addictive, Crazy Rich Asians is at Little Rock Central in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas an insider’s look at the Asian Jet Set; a perfect High School W A DIFFERENT Young, she envisions a humble family home, depiction of the clash between old money and new By Carlotta Walls LaNier and DRUMMER Lisa Frazier Page; long drives to explore the island, and quality time money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland By William Melvin Kelley Foreword by Bill Clinton with the man she might one day marry. What she Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means Nearly three decades after its first publication, A Different When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of doesn’t know is that Nick’s family home looks like to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich. Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, a palace, that she’ll ride in more private planes and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter she and 8 other black students only wanted to make it “A juicy, close anthropological read of Singapore than cars, and that with one of Asia’s most eligible struggle for African-American civil rights. This is the story to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they high society and its social and mating rituals . He bachelors on her arm, Rachel has a target on her of Tucker Caliban, a black Southerner who one day salts came to be known, would lead the nation on an even gets the idiosyncratic details right . and he does back. Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore his fields, burns down his house, kills his livestock and, longer and much more turbulent path, one that would a particularly good job of illustrating the divide . with his wife and child, sets off a mass exodus of his challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in . between mainland wealth and establishment mythical state’s entire black population. forever change the landscape of America. the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, money—an uneasy tension that is very real.” TEACHER’S GUIDE AVAILABLE Nick’s formidable mother, who has strong feelings —Janice Y. K. Lee about who her son should—and should not—marry. 18 877.899.8550 | (+1.708.884.5100) | Free shipping in the US and Canada For more information visit titlewave.com/classroom-high 3 LGBTQ LIVES The Hilarious Coming-Of-Age Memoir from The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah BECOMING NICOLE The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her LOT “[A] compelling new Born a Crime is not extraordinary family Stories memoir .
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