Katie misses school while she is home with the flu.

"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of hidden...

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

Disappointed that her monster costume does not frighten anyone, Katie Woo still finds a way to have a happy Halloween.

Fearful seven-year-old Alvin Ho goes on a trip to China with his family.

A young girl helps her grandmother with preparations for the traditional Chinese celebration to welcome her new baby brother.

Katie Woo loves her life and lists the many reasons she is so happy.

A Chinese American girl describes the festivities surrounding her uncle's Chinese wedding and the customs behind each one.