Ling & Ting: Share a Birthday by Grace Lin.
Little, Brown, and Co., Hachette Book Group, New York, 2013.
Early chapter book, 48 pages.
Lexile: 320L .
AR Level: 2.0 (worth 0.5 points) .
NOTE: This is part of the Ling and Ting series.
Six birthday short stories from the life of Chinese-American twins Ling and Ting.

My children were so enamored with the first book in the Ling and Ting series, and read it so many times, that I went ahead and purchased the rest of the books. There isn’t really a clear indicator of order in this series, and I don’t think that the order really matters to most readers, but I like to know.
So extrapolating from the publication date the series is:
- Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same!
- Ling and Ting: Share a Birthday
- Ling and Ting: Twice as Silly
- Ling and Ting: Together in All Weather
Again, you could easily read these out of order though, as there is no numbering to the series. Some books do make reference to others, but there definitely isn’t a strict chronology to this particular series, which is great for young readers who tend to pick things up randomly, or teachers who would like to break students up into groups that read different-but-similar materials.