Lisa Yee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on these lists
2023 Youth Media Award Winners
Golden Dome 2023-2024
J Fiction New
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
Golden Dome 2023-2024
J Fiction New
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2023-24
Description
"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself."--
2) Warp speed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisy his academically demanding father.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2011: Kanani volume 1
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American girls collection volume 1
Girl of the year. 2011 Kanani volume 1
American girls collection volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
A week before high school graduation, Harvard-bound Higgs suddenly finds his life falling apart and the other students turning against him, and somehow it all started with a hypothetical question about donating a kidney--but really it goes much deeper, all the way back to the death of his older brother.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
Author
Series
Millicent Min series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
Author
Series
DC super hero girls (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
This groundbreaking new middle grade series follows DC Comics' most iconic female Super Heroes and Super-Villains . . . as high schoolers. At Super Hero High, the galaxy's most powerful teens nurture their powers and master the fundamentals of what it means to be a hero.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former pro-football player, say that they two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after his public asthma attack proves how right his father is.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Supergirl is the new girl in school, and she just also happens to be the most powerful teenager in the galaxy! After losing her home planet of Krypton and everyone she knows, Supergirl has made a new home on Earth, but she's isn't so sure that Super Hero High School is the right place for her. Wonder Woman, other new friends, and a kindly librarian make her feel welcome, but breached inter-dimensional portals, invading alien armies, and bad dreams...
13) Lea dives in
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lea travels to Brazil on a family vacation to visit her brother Zac.
15) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 2
Girl of the year. Lea volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Lea is eager to explore the Amazon, including the exotic animals of the rainforest.
17) Lea and Camila
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 3
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 3
Girl of the year. Lea volume 3
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 3
Girl of the year. Lea volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"For spring break, Lea has invited her friend Camila to St. Louis for a stateside adventure. They find a stray kitten and make a mysterious discovery while visiting a grand but crumbling mansion. Lea is determined to uncover the secrets of her discovery, but in her search for clues she forgets to be a good host to Camila. And when Lea's best friend, Abby, becomes fast friends with Camila, Lea feels a little left out. Can she find a way to reconnect...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"In addition to training to be a super hero, Katana also follows the noble warrior traditions of the Samurai. Now an unknown source has given her the responsibility of guarding a hundred ancient Samurai swords--but why her, and for what purpose? With the help of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Ms. Martian, and some of her other super friends, she intends to find out"--
19) Bobby vs. Girls
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan books volume 1
Description
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...
Author
Series
Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.