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21) A kind of paradise

Author

Tan, Amy Rebecca

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library.

22) Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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Writer Amy Tan's hit debut novel, The Joy Luck Club (1989), catapulted her to commercial and critical success. Born to Chinese immigrant parents into 1950's America, Amy Tan's painful family legacy inspired her stories of women without the power to choose their lives. Journey through the groundbreaking author's life and career with archival imagery, artful animation and original interviews.

23) Sagwa: The Chinese siamese cat : cat tales and celebrations

Pub. Date

[2003]

Language

English

24) Book club kit: Parsippany Public Library : The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

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In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.

25) The Joy Luck Club

Pub. Date

[2006]

Edition

Widescreen version.

Language

English

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Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and shows how their experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.

26) An introduction to The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Author

Stone, Dan

Series

Big read

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

27) An introduction to The Joy luck club by Amy Tan

Author

Stone, Dan

Series

Big read

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

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Interviews, commentaries, and excerpts from Amy Tan's first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Accompanying teacher's guide includes ten lesson plans, each with focus topic, discussion activities, writing exercises, and homework assignments Also includes capstone projects, suggested essay topics, handouts with more background information about the novel, and bibliographical references. Lessons dovetail with state language arts standards required for fiction....