Aloha, Kanani

Aloha, Kanani
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Cousins
ISBN: 9781593698393

Ten-year-old Kanani loves living in beautiful Hawaii and she especially loves sharing the wonders of her island home with visitors. So when her cousin Rachel from New York comes to stay for a month, Kanani is excited to get to know her. But no matter what she does to help Rachel feel at home, it only seems to make her unhappy instead. Can Kanani find a way to connect with her cousin?

Good Job, Kanani

Good Job, Kanani
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Best friends
ISBN: 9780329838638

When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.

Good Luck, Ivy

Good Luck, Ivy
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781593693565

Ivy must make a choice between a family reunion and the gymnastics meet.

Bobby the Brave (Sometimes)

Bobby the Brave (Sometimes)
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545322774

From Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, a hilarious sequel to Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally). In his last adventure, Bobby Ellis-Chan got stuck to a stinky tree, had underwear attached to his back, and faced down a whole wolfpack of girls. What could be scarier or more humiliating than that? Oh, how about playing sports with his football-hero dad ... a cat with 27 toes ... an asthma attack in public ... dancing on stage in the school musical ... And the list goes on! Bobby will have to overcome his fears if he's going to come out on top.

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 2)

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 2)
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545281504

Stanford Wong is in big trouble--or as he would spell it, "trubble"--in this laugh-out-loud companion to the award-winning Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If that happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball, Millicent Min--and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off.But Stanford Wong has a few things going for him. He has Yin-Yin's fantastic dim sum. He has his magic jade pendant, source of all his basketball skill. He has this amazing new book called The Outsiders he's just discovered. He may even have Millicent. And Stanford realizes that that might just be enough to save his summer--if he can pull it all together in time.

Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally)

Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally)
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545279119

With the hilarious adventures of Bobby Ellis-Chan, Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat bring their gifts for finding the funny (and the truth) in everyday situations to chapter-book readers. All of Bobby Ellis-Chan's problems in life can be summed up in one word: GIRLS.There's his sister Casey, who has a weird obsession with Bobby's goldfish, Rover.There's Jillian Zarr, who gets mad every time a boy even looks at her.Most of all, there's Holly Harper, Bobby's ex-best friend. Who is now, for some reason, Jillian's best friend. She used to like frogs and rolling down the hill; now she wears dresses and straightens her hair. Holly's running against Bobby for Student Council representative. She knows all his secrets -- and she just might spill.It's Bobby vs. Holly, boys vs. girls, in the biggest battle ever to rock Rancho Rosetta!

Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1)

Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-04-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054588022X

Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)? Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily doesn't know Millicent's IQ score. She actually thinks Millie is cool. And if Millie can hide her awards, ignore her grandmother's advice, swear her parents to silence, blackmail Stanford, and keep all her lies straight, she just might make her first friend.What's it going to take? Sheer genius.

Learn Hawaiian at Home

Learn Hawaiian at Home
Author: Kahikahealani Wight
Publisher: Bess Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1992
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781880188217

An introductory course of Hawaiian language, with guided practice in pronunciation, and stories and songs about the islands of Hawaii.

Absolutely Maybe

Absolutely Maybe
Author: Lisa Yee
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545229804

Lisa Yee makes her YA debut with this hilarious novel about a charm-school dropout who becomes a drop-dead charmer on a quest for her father in California. Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring . . . vintage Lisa Yee.

McKenna, Ready to Fly!

McKenna, Ready to Fly!
Author: Mary Casanova
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781593699970

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