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1) Parachutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
2) Dark matter
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chinese student Liu Xing enters Valley State University with dreams of a successful academic career, but cultural differences and school politics threaten his ambitions, resulting in tragedy.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A trio of Chinese exchange students, Tzu, Wa, and Chen, arrive in New York City in 1980, eager for what America has to offer. They make friends including a literature teacher named Dexter and his girlfriend Suzanne. But as they try to adjust to the New York City atmosphere, they become disillusioned with America, eventually buying a firearm for self-defense.