Books like Chinatown by William Low

A brave young boy learns to love the noisy, bustling city where his nana lives, with the help of a special cape and his newfound courage.

A Chinese‑American girl discovers her grandmother’s hard work and love as they spend a day together cracking crabs at her grandmother’s job.

The bittersweet story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory and amassing the great fortune that would destroy his family. A strange comic farce of machinations and double dealings, it is also the story of immigrants, sugar, saccharine, obesity, and the health and diet craze, played out across countries and generations but also within the life of a single family, as the fortune and the factory passed from generation to generation. The author, Rich Cohen, a grandson (disinherited, and thus set free, along with his mother and siblings), has sought the truth of this rancorous, colorful history, mining thousands of pages of court documents and conducting interviews with members of his extended family.--From publisher description.

A chroming spray of a magic paintbrush lifts young Steve and his elderly caretakers out of a modest Chinatown flat in San Francisco into a realm of wonder, where wishes can come true.

A time‑traveling Librarian, Irene Black, must unravel the murder of a dragon at a peace conference to prevent a collapse of order, chaos, and the Library itself.

Sam gets a lucky money envelope for Chinese New Year and must decide how to spend it, exploring family values, friendship, and the meaning of giving in a Chinese American community.

A Chinese American girl in San Francisco learns about her heritage and family when she moves in with her grandmother in Chinatown.

When Robin’s parents fight, she and her grandmother escape to Chinatown, where they pose as an elderly cook’s family and discover deeper ties to her Chinese heritage.

A young ballet student faces financial hardship when her Chinese grandmother returns from Hong Kong, sparking jealousy and conflict across their family.

A Chinese American family celebrates Lunar New Year traditions.

A young woman in early twentieth‑century Montana overcomes her self‑esteem struggles with the help of a caring Chinese cook, learning that true beauty lies within.

Sophie learns that two grandmothers, Bubbe and Nai Nai, share the same secret chicken soup recipe—one Jewish, one Chinese—highlighting family traditions and cultural harmony.