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Sigh, gone : a misfit's memoir of great books, punk rock, and the fight to fit in
by Phuc Tran
"For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlett Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, teenage rebellion, and assimilation, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents. Appealing to fans of coming-of-age memoirs such as Fresh Off the Boat, Running with Scissors, or tales of assimilation like Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Displaced and The Refugees, Sigh, Gone explores one man's bewildering experiences of abuse, racism, and tragedy and reveals redemption and connection in books and punk rock. Against the hairspray-and-synthesizer backdrop of the '80s, he finds solace and kinship in the wisdom of classic literature, and in the subculture of punk rock, he finds affirmation and echoes of his disaffection. In his journey for self-discovery Tran ultimately finds refuge and inspiration in the art that shapes--and ultimately saves--him"
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China men
by Maxine Hong Kingston
The author describes the Chinese experience in the U.S. through incidents from her childhood, the history of early Chinese immigrants, and Chinese myths and tales
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The accidental Asian : notes of a native speaker
by Eric Liu
A young former speechwriter for President Clinton and the child of Chinese immigrants explores the place of Asian Americans in contemporary American politics and society, the nature of race, and the price of assimilation.
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All you can ever know : a memoir
by Nicole Chung
A Korean adoptee who grew up with a white family in Oregon discusses her journey to find her identity as an Asian American woman and a writer after becoming curious about her true origins
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The history of anonymity : poems
by Jennifer Chang
This debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. Chang sweeps together myth and fairy tale, skirting the edges of events to focus on the psychological tenor of experience: the underpinnings of identity and the role of nature in both constructing and erasing a self. From the edge of the ocean, where things constantly shift and dissolve, through "the forest's thick, / where the trees meet the dark," to an imaginary cliffside town of fog, this book makes a journey both natural and psychological, using experiments in language and form to capture the search for personhood and place."--Page 4 of cover
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Everything you need to know about Asian American history
by Lan Cao
Utilizing a lively question-and-answer format, a comprehensive overview of Asian-American history documents the dramatic impact of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indian, and Pacific Island cultures on American society.
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The Chinese in America : a narrative history
by Iris Chang
The author of The Rape of Nanking chronicles the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, identifying their many contributions to the nation's development, from the construction of the transcontinental railroad to major scientific and technological advances. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.
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The Columbia guide to Asian American history
by Gary Y. Okihiro
A comprehensive reference to Asian American history reveals the key events and personalities while also exploring the historical debates that rage around their interpretation.
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The souls of yellow folk : essays
by Wesley Yang
In the National Magazine Award-winning write’s debut, he presents a collection of razor-sharp essays on race and gender, exploring ugly trends with radical honesty.
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Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
"Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays togetheris Hong's theory of "minor feelings." As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality--when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche--and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth"
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My year abroad
by Chang-rae Lee
An everyday American college student finds his life transformed by a Chinese-American businessman who unexpectedly takes him under his wing on a series of whimsical, heartbreaking and darkly shocking adventures throughout Asia. By the award-winning author of Native Speaker.
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Native speaker
by Chang-rae Lee
Representing the letter “L” in a series of twenty-six collectible editions, this award-winning novel describes the isolation felt by industrial spy Henry Park, a first-generation Korean American, who doesn't feel thoroughly at home in either culture anymore.
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Sugar, smoke, song : a novel
by Reema Rajbanshi
"Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend's lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators, and hybrid prose, these stories embody the experiences of Asian American women carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived"
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown. By the award-winning author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.
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Amal unbound
by Aisha Saeed
Forced to leave school to care for her siblings in accordance with Pakistani village tradition, a disappointed Amal suffers an accidental run-in with the son of a corrupt landlord and is forced into indentured servitude, where her witness to her master's nefarious dealings compels her to make risky alliances in support of change. By the author of Written in the Stars.
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Amina's voice
by Hena Khan
Amina, a Pakistani-American Muslim girl, struggles to stay true to her family's culture while dealing with the vandalism of the local Islamic Center and mosque and her best friend Soojin's new friendship with their former nemesis
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Cilla Lee-Jenkins : the epic story
by Susan Tan
When her beloved grandfather, YeYe, suffers a stroke and forgets his English, Chinese-American fifth-grader Cilla Lee-Jenkins finds her efforts to help complicated by personal insecurities, sibling rivalry and middle-school dynamics.
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Dragon Pearl
by Yoon Ha Lee
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces
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Front desk
by Kelly Yang
After emigrating from China, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel, despite the nasty owner, Mr. Yao, who exploits them, while she works the front desk and tries to cope with fitting in at her school
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The great wall of Lucy Wu
by Wendy Wan Long Shang
Aspiring basketball star Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that she will have to share a room with her great-aunt for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year
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Hello universe
by Erin Entrada Kelly
The lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him
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I'm Ok
by Patti Kim
Ok, a Korean American boy, tries a get rich quick scheme of starting a hair braiding business and winning the school talent competition to hide the fact that he is struggling with the loss of his father and the financial hardships he and his mother must now bear
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Inside out & back again
by Thanhha Lai
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama
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Jasmine Toguchi, mochi queen
by Debbi Michiko Florence
A debut entry in a new chapter book series featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine finds messy 8-year-old Jasmine Toguchi wanting to do something unique in response to the fact that her older sister always gets to go first, a desire that leads to an opportunity during the mochi rice preparations for New Year.
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The science of breakable things
by Tae Keller
Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific process leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity
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Spirit hunters
by Ellen Oh
The Raine family's new house may be haunted and may be causing Michael Raine to act out in strange ways, but his sister Harper has a strong feeling of déjà vu and she thinks recovering her repressed memories will somehow help her brother
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Stand up, Yumi Chung!
by Jessica Kim
Reworking mortifying memories about her perpetual shyness and cross-cultural realities into comedy gold, an aspiring comedienne accidentally lands in a comedy camp under the instruction of a favorite celebrity.
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Stargazing
by Jen Wang
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness
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They called us enemy
by George Takei
Presents a graphic memoir detailing the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism
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The thing about luck
by Cynthia Kadohata
Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers
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When you trap a tiger
by Tae Keller
Moving with her parents into the home of her sick grandmother, young Lily forges a complicated pact with a magical tiger, in a story inspired by Korean folktales. By the author of The Science of Unbreakable Things.
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Where the mountain meets the moon
by Grace Lin
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River
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Where's Halmoni?
by Julie J. Kim
Searching for their missing grandmother, two Korean children follow tracks into a fantastic world filled with beings from folklore who speak in Korean. Includes translations and information about the folkloric characters
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Over the ocean
by Tar Gomi
A young girl gazes toward a horizon where the water meets the sky and wonders what lies beyond the waves, imagining boats filled with toys, skyscrapers filled with people and houses filled with families, including another little girl who may not be so different from the girl herself. By the creator of The Great Day.
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Apple pie 4th of July
by Janet S. Wong
A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten
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Bee-bim bop!
by Linda Sue Park
In bouncy, rhyming text, a hungry Korean-American child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop--a traditional Korean dish of rice, meat, and vegetables--as they shop for the ingredients, prepare the meal, set the table, and finally sit down with the family to enjoy the child's favorite dish.
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A big mooncake for Little Star
by Grace Lin
Reimagines the cycles of the moon as a mother bakes a Big Moon Cookie and, despite Mama's request to wait, Little Star begins nibbling at it every night
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Big red lollipop
by Rukhsana Khan
Forced to bring her little sister along to a birthday party, Rubina is mortified when her younger sibling demands to win every game and steals Rubina's red lollipop party favor.
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Bilal cooks daal
by Aisha Saeed
Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done
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Clever little witch
by Muon Van
Magical mayhem and hilarity ensue when a clever little witch tries to turn her annoying, broomstick-crashing baby brother into a goldfish. Illustrated by the award-winning artist of There Are No Scary Wolves.
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Danbi leads the school parade
by Anna Kim
Thrilled to start at her new school in America before she renders her diverse class silent as the first Asian student most of them have ever seen, little Danbi uses the power of her imagination to make friends, learn the rules and lead everyone during a fun-filled parade.
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Days with Dad
by Nari Hong
A young girl and her wheelchair-bound father share many special moments because she treasures all they can do together, although he apologizes for not being able to do more
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Dear Juno
by Soyung Pak
Although Juno, a Korean-American boy, cannot read the letter he receives from his grandmother in Seoul, he understands what it means from the photograph and dried flower that are enclosed and decides to send back to her a similar letter.
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Dia's story cloth
by Dia Cha
The story cloth made for her by her aunt and uncle chronicles the life of the author and her family in their native Laos and their eventual emigration to the United States
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A different pond
by Bao Phi
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"
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Dim sum for everyone!
by Grace Lin
A child describes the various little dishes of dim sum that she and her family enjoy on a visit to a restaurant in Chinatown, in a story that includes a simple explanation and history of Chinese dim sum at the end.
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Drawn together
by Minh Lê
Struggling throughout a visit with his grandfather when they cannot speak each other's language, a young boy discovers their mutual love of art and storytelling during a shared session of drawing that helps them form a bond beyond words. Illustrated by the Caldecott Award-winning artist of The Adventures of Beekle.
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Eyes that kiss in the corners
by Joanna Ho
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers but by drawing from the strength of the powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment
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Festival of colors
by Kabir Sehgal
Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo gather flowers and make colorful powders in anticipation of India’s springtime celebration of Holi, before putting on their white clothing and joining family members, friends and neighbors in covering each other with vibrant hues during the Festival of Colors.
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Ganesha's sweet tooth
by Sanjay Patel
An original story based on Hindu mythology, this book tells the story about how Ganesha's love of sweets led to a broken tusk and the writing of the epic poem, the Mahbhrata.
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Gobble you up! : based on a Rajasthani folktale
by Gita Wolf
An adaptation of an oral Rajasthani trickster tale set to cumulative rhyme. Meet the most wily jackal in the forest: too lazy to hunt for food, he starts by tricking his friend the crane, and then proceeds to gobble up every animal he comes across. Illustrated in the Mandna traditional finger painting style, this is the first time that this art form has been used to tell a children's story
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Grandfather's journey
by Allen Say
In a special anniversary edition of his Caldecott-winning classic that includes a new introduction and downloadable audio, Allen Say offers a poignant account of a family's unique cross-cultural experience in America and Japan, in a story that warmly conveys his own love for the two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once.
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Grandmother's visit
by Betty Quan
Missing the beloved late grandmother who taught her how to wash rice while sharing stories about her childhood in China, a sad little girl participates in a family tradition of turning on the outside lights so that her grandmother's spirit can return home one last time to say goodbye.
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Ho'onani : hula warrior
by Heather Gale
A tale based on a true story follows Ho'onani, a child who was born female but doesn't conform to either gender, and who wants to lead the hula chant at school, a traditionally male role
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The house Baba built : an artist's childhood in China
by Ed. Young
A picture book memoir by the Caldecott Medal-winning creator of Lon Po Po traces his childhood in World War II-era Shanghai, where the house built by his father provided comfort and safety to his family and a growing number of friends and strangers.
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Hush! : a Thai lullaby
by Minfong Ho
A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby
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I Miss My Grandpa
by Jin Xiaojing
A U.S. picture book debut by the award-winning author of China’s The Gift Falls Off depicts a young girl whose grandmother helps her reconnect with the much-missed grandfather who passed away just before the girl was born.
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I really want to see you, Grandma
by Tar Gomi
Yumi and her grandmother both have the same great idea to spend some special time together, but the two keep missing each other throughout the day, in a humorous celebration of the powerful grandparent-child bond by a best-selling author/illustrator.
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In a village by the sea
by Muon Van
"Moving from the wide world to the snugness of home and back out again, Village by the Sea tells the story of longing for the comforts of home"
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Juna's jar
by Jane Bahk
After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better by finding things to put in her special kimchi jar, and each night, whatever is in the jar takes her on a magical journey in search of Hector.
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Let me finish!
by Minh Lê
Settling down to enjoy a good book, a young hero is dismayed by a menagerie of noisy animals who spoil the story's ending, until a surprise of his own makes the boy wonder if he should have been paying attention to what the animals were telling him.
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Love as strong as ginger
by Lenore Look
Spending a day with her grandmother at the crab cannery, Katie sees just how hard she works for the little money she makes and so immediately becomes more appreciative of all her grandmother has done for her.
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Luna's yum yum dim sum
by Natasha Yim
For Luna's birthday the whole family goes out for dim sum, but when Luna drops her pork bun she and her two brothers argue over how to divide up the remaining buns
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A map into the world
by Kao Kalia Yang
Moving into a new home with her family, a young Hmong girl encounters both birth and death as she curiously explores life inside and outside her home, discovering beauty in and connection to the busy world.
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The most beautiful thing
by Kao Kalia Yang
"Drawn from Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this heartfelt picture book offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love"
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My footprints
by Bao Phi
Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and the Sarabha
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The name jar
by Yangsook Choi
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, she is anxious for her new classmates to like her, so to find a name they can more easily pronounce, they decide to help her by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from.
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Nim and the war effort
by Milly Lee
A Chinese-American schoolgirl, Nim proves to all her classmates that she can be true to both her country and her heritage when she collects the most papers for a war-effort paper drive during World War II.
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Our favorite day
by Joowon Oh
A picture book debut celebrates the bond between grandparents and grandchildren, depicting the peaceful love of a devoted Papa who adjusts his daily routine once a week to visit the craft store, get a take-out treat or pick flowers with his family.
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Outside, inside
by LeUyen Pham
"From Caldecott honoree LeUyen Pham, a moving picture book celebrating essential workers and the community coming together to face the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic"
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Peach heaven
by Yangsook Choi
The Korean town where Yangsook lives is famous for wonderful peaches, but one year a heavy rainstorm threatens the crop.
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The piano recital
by Akiko Miyakoshi
A little girl named Momo is nervous about performing in the piano recital, but she ends up devising a creative way to soothe her fears
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Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
by Teresa Robeson
"When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split"
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Round is a mooncake : a book of shapes
by Roseanne Thong
As a little girl discovers things round, square, and rectangular in her urban neighborhood, she is reminded of her Chinese American culture
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Tea with milk
by Allen Say
After growing up near San Francisco, a young Japanese woman returns with her parents to their native Japan, but she feels foreign and out of place
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This is our house
by Hyewon Yum
Gentle illustrations and spare text combine in the story of a young descendant of immigrants who looks back on the generations of family that grew up in the house where she lives after they moved to America from a faraway country.
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Thread of love
by Kabir Sehgal
"Three siblings participate in the Indian festival of Raksha Bandhan, a celebration of the special relationship between brothers and sisters, in a vibrant reinterpretation of the classic song, ""Frère Jacques."
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Tiger in my soup
by Kashmira Sheth
SUPERANNO When a boy is left in the care of his older sister, he begs her to read him his favorite book, but she is too absorbed in her own reading to pay him any attention. She won't be distracted, even when the boy finds a ravenous tiger hiding in his soup! His sister misses all the action; only after the steamy beast is slain does she return to the table with her brother and finally agree to read to him. But is the tiger really gone?
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Tiny feet between the mountains
by Hanna Cha
Struggling through her daily chores because of her tiny size, a young Korean girl in a village of large people devises a clever plan to help a spirit tiger who has swallowed the sun by mistake. .
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The wheels on the tuk tuk
by Kabir Sehgal
The mother-son duo behind the best-selling A Bucket of Blessings presents the story of a wild ride on a tuk tuk taxi in India in a twist on the beloved nursery rhyme, reflecting on such experiences as an encounter with an elephant, a tasty treat and a grand fireworks display.
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When Father Comes Home
by Sarah Jung
Missing his father during the latter’s numerous business trips, a young child helps plant a tangerine tree to mark how the tree and he will grow during his father’s absences, until an accident involving the tree causes the boy to fear that his family will also change.
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When spring comes to the DMZ
by k-pae Yi
Grandfather returns each year to the demilitarized zone, the barrier--and accidental nature preserve--that separates families that live in North and South Korea
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American panda
by Gloria Chao
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
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The astonishing color of after
by Emily X. R. Pan
After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird
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Butterfly yellow
by Thanhha Lai
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War
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The downstairs girl
by Stacey Lee
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"
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Frankly in love
by David Yoon
Torn between his love for his white girlfriend and his sense of duty to the matchmaking parents who made hard sacrifices to move to the United States, a Korean American teen looks for solutions along with a friend who has a similar problem.
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I'll be the one
by Lyla Lee
A nuanced celebration of body positivity by the author of the Mindy Kim series follows the experiences of a plus-sized teen girl who shatters expectations on a televised competition to become the next big K-pop star. 40,000 first printing.
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It's not like it's a secret
by Misa Sugiura
"Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties. Some are big, like that fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there's the one that she can barelyeven admit to herself -- the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California she begins to wonder if it's finally time for some honesty, especially after she meets Jamie Ramirez. Jamie is beautiful andsmart and unlike anyone Sana's ever known. There are just a few problems: Sana's new friends don't trust Jamie's crowd; Jamie's friends clearly don't want her around anyway; and a sweet guy named Caleb seems to have more-than-friendly feelings for her. Meanwhile, her dad's affair is becoming too obvious to ignore anymore. Sana always figured that the hardest thing would be to tell people that she wants to date a girl, but as she quickly learns, telling the truth is easy ... what comes after it, though, is a whole lot more complicated"
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Jaya and Rasa : a love story
by Sonia Patel
"In Hawaii, seventeen-year-old Jaya Mehta is a transgender outsider with depressive tendencies and the stunningly beautiful Rasa Santos thinks sex is her only power. Will their love transcend and pull them forward or will they remain stuck, separate, in the chaos of their pasts?"
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The love & lies of Rukhsana Ali
by Sabina Khan
After her conservative Muslim parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, Rukhsana Ali finds herself whisked off to Bangladesh and must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path
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The night diary
by Veera Hiranandani
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary
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Parachutes
by Kelly Yang
A teen from a privileged Asian family navigates culture shock, unexpected freedom and a new relationship while attending school in California and renting a room from the family of an Ivy League hopeful whose debate coach has undermined her plans.
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Patron saints of nothing
by Randy Ribay
When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more
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This time will be different
by Misa Sugiura
Seventeen-year-old CJ enjoys working at her family's flower shop and is upset when she learns that her mother has plans to sell the shop
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When Dimple met Rishi
by Sandhya Menon
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him
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Written in the stars
by Aisha Saeed
Nailas parents allow her to choose what to study, how to wear her hair, what to be when she grows up, but when she falls in love with Saif, her parents take a family trip to Pakistan to marry her to the man of their choosing
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Every falling star : the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
by Sungju Lee
"It's the memoir of a boy named Sungju who grew up in North Korea and, at the age of twelve, was forced to live on the streets and fend for himself after his parents disappeared. Finally, after years of being homeless and living with a gang, Sungju is reunited with his maternal grandparents and, eventually, his father"
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Almost American Girl : An Illustrated Memoir
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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American born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
A graphic novel by the author of Duncan's Kingdom alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in American popular culture. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.
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The best we could do : An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
The author describes her experiences as a young Vietnamese immigrant, highlighting her family's move from their war-torn home to the United States in graphic novel format
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Boxers : Boxers
by Gene Luen Yang
A graphically rendered account of China's Boxer Rebellion in 1898 is told from the perspective of Little Bao, who joins an army of kung fu-trained commoners who fight for freedom from the oppression inflicted by foreign missionaries and soldiers.
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Saints
by Gene Luen Yang
A companion volume to Boxers graphically depicts China's 1898 Boxer Rebellion from the perspective of a young Christian convert and neglected fourth daughter who struggles with divided loyalties that compel her to make the ultimate sacrifice for her faith.
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Displacement
by Kiku Hughes
On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II
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Dragon hoops : From Small Steps to Great Leaps
by Gene Luen Yang
An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. By the award-winning author of American Born Chinese.
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Good talk : a memoir in conversations
by Mira Jacob
Presents a graphic novel memoir about American identity as it has shaped her interracial family in the aftermath of the 2016 elections
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Pashmina
by Nidhi Chanani
When Priyanka finds a mysterious pashmina in her house, she is transported to an India which may or may not be real, and goes in search of the reason why her mother left her homeland and the father she has never met
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