Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir /

Ha, Robin,


School Library Journal starred, November 2019. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2021. Booklist starred, November 2019. Pub Weekly, November 2019. Kirkus Starred, November 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2019. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2019. The author recounts how she and her mother moved from South Korea to the United States.
Date Published:2020

Always and forever, Lara Jean

Han, Jenny,


School Library Journal, May 2017. Booklist, May 2017. Horn Book, October 2017. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), June 2017. "While helping plan her father's wedding, senior Lara Jean struggles with choosing a college and questions how graduation is going to change her relationship with her boyfriend Peter"--OCLC.
Date Published:2018

Amal unbound

Saeed, Aisha,


School Library Journal starred, June 2018. Pub Weekly, March 2018. Kirkus Starred, April 2018. Booklist, April 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2018. Library Media Connection starred, August 2018. In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, June 2018. Pub Weekly, March 2018. Kirkus Starred, April 2018. Booklist, April 2018. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), May 2018. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2018. Library Media Connection starred, August 2018. In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.

Date Published:2018

American born Chinese

Yang, Gene Luen,


Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, September 2006. Library Journal, March 2007. Publishers Weekly, June 2006. Booklist, September 2006. New York Times, May 2007. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2006. Teacher Librarian, February 2007. Alternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.
Date Published:2021

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2007. Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010. School Library Journal starred, September 2006. Library Journal, March 2007. Publishers Weekly, June 2006. Booklist, September 2006. New York Times, May 2007. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2006. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2006. Teacher Librarian, February 2007. Alternates interrelated stories about three characters, including a Chinese American trying to participate in popular culture; a Chinese folk hero attempting to be worshipped as a god; and a teenager who is so ashamed by his Chinese cousin's behavior that he changes schools.

Date Published:2021

The aquanaut

Santat, Dan,


Publisher's Weekly starred, January 24, 2022. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2022. Ever since her father was lost at sea, Sophia has been moping around Aqualand, a marine theme park. Her world is turned upside down when an aquanat, a disguise for a band of goofy sea creatures, breaks into the park's research lab searching for a fabled paradise and safe haven for marine life. When Aqualand turns out to be a sinister front, Sophia is determined to help the aquanat crew free the captive marine life before it's too late. In graphic novel format.
Date Published:2022

Publisher's Weekly starred, January 24, 2022. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2022. Ever since her father was lost at sea, Sophia has been moping around Aqualand, a marine theme park. Her world is turned upside down when an aquanat, a disguise for a band of goofy sea creatures, breaks into the park's research lab searching for a fabled paradise and safe haven for marine life. When Aqualand turns out to be a sinister front, Sophia is determined to help the aquanat crew free the captive marine life before it's too late. In graphic novel format.

Date Published:2022

The best at it

Pancholy, Maulik, 1974-,


School Library Journal, October 2019. Booklist starred, September 2019. Pub Weekly, August 2019. Kirkus Starred, July 2019. "Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American boy growing up in small-town Indiana, struggles to come to terms with his identity, including that he may be gay"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2019

Count me in

Bajaj, Varsha,


Booklist, July 2019. "Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2019

Darius the Great is not okay

Khorram, Adib,


School Library Journal starred, August 2018. Pub Weekly, June 2018. Kirkus Starred, July 2018. Booklist, August 2018. Horn Book, September 2018. Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Date Published:2018

Dragon hoops

Yang, Gene Luen,


School Library Journal starred, January 2020. Booklist starred, February 2020. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2020. Pub Weekly, January 2020. Kirkus Review, January 2020. "Gene Luen Yang understands stories -- comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championship. Once Gene meets these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he's seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn't know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons' lives, but his own life as well"--Jacket flap.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, January 2020. Booklist starred, February 2020. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2020. Pub Weekly, January 2020. Kirkus Review, January 2020. "Gene Luen Yang understands stories -- comic book stories, in particular. Big action. Bigger thrills. And the hero always wins. But Gene doesn't get sports. As a kid, his friends called him 'Stick' and every basketball game he played ended in pain. He lost interest in basketball long ago, but at the high school where he now teaches, it's all anyone can talk about. The men's varsity team, the Dragons, is having a phenomenal season that's been decades in the making. Each victory brings them closer to their ultimate goal: the California State Championship. Once Gene meets these young all-stars, he realizes that their story is just as thrilling as anything he's seen on a comic book page. He knows he has to follow this epic to its end. What he doesn't know yet is that this season is not only going to change the Dragons' lives, but his own life as well"--Jacket flap.

Date Published:2020

Dragon Pearl

Lee, Yoon Ha,


"Rick Riordan Presents." School Library Journal starred, September 2018. Pub Weekly, November 2018. Kirkus Starred, September 2018. Booklist, October 2018. Horn Book, January 2019. 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.
Date Published:2019

Felix ever after

Callender, Kacen,


School Library Journal starred, March 2020. Booklist starred, May 2020. Pub Weekly, March 2020. Horn Book, July 2020. Kirkus Review, May 2020. Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Date Published:2021

A first time for everything

Santat, Dan,


Booklist starred, February 2023. Kirkus Starred, December 2022. In this feel-good coming-of-age memoir, the best-selling author and Caldecott Medalist shares his life-changing middle school trip to Europe during which he experiences a series of firsts, including first love.
Date Published:2023

From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement /

Yoo, Paula,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Chronicles the events leading up to and following the murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin in 1982 which sparked the Asian American movement and led to the United States' first federal civil rights trial in connection with an Asian American citizen. Examines the cultural context of the event, the act itself, the trials, and its legacy, and discusses how xenophobia and anti-Asian discrimination and violence have affected the lives of Asian Americans throughout history. Includes black-and-white photographs and a timeline.
Date Published:2023

Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Reviews Starred, School Library Journal Starred, Chronicles the events leading up to and following the murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin in 1982 which sparked the Asian American movement and led to the United States' first federal civil rights trial in connection with an Asian American citizen. Examines the cultural context of the event, the act itself, the trials, and its legacy, and discusses how xenophobia and anti-Asian discrimination and violence have affected the lives of Asian Americans throughout history. Includes black-and-white photographs and a timeline.

Date Published:2023

Front desk

Yang, Kelly,


School Library Journal starred, March 2018. Booklist starred, April 2018. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, May 2018. Kirkus Starred, March 2018. Horn Book, July 2018. Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2018. Library Media Connection, August 2018. Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason.
Date Published:2018

School Library Journal starred, March 2018. Booklist starred, April 2018. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, May 2018. Kirkus Starred, March 2018. Horn Book, July 2018. Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2018. Library Media Connection, August 2018. Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade class, the other being Mr. Yao's son, Jason.

Date Published:2018

Golden girl

Faruqi, Reem,


Interior art by Anoosha Syed. When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
Date Published:2022

Green Lantern.

Lê, Minh, 1979-,


School Library Journal starred, December 2019. Booklist, November 2019. Kirkus Review, October 2019. When thirteen-year-old Tai Pham inherits his grandmother's jade ring, he soon finds out he has been inducted into a group of space cops knows as the Green Lanterns.
Date Published:2020

Hello universe

Kelly, Erin Entrada,


School Library Journal starred, January 2017. Booklist starred, December 2016. Pub Weekly, December 2016. Kirkus Starred, December 2016. Horn Book, March 2017. Bulletin (Center for Children's books), March 2017. 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.
Date Published:2017

I survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

Tarshis, Lauren.


"Graphix." Ben is visiting Japan after his dad's death. One morning, Ben's grief turns to fear when a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village where he's staying. His family narrowly escapes a collapsing house, and the ocean is rising up. Ben and his family are swept away by a devastating tsunami. Now Ben is alone, stranded in an unfamiliar country. Can he find enough courage and strength to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time? In graphic novel format.
Date Published:2025

"Graphix." Ben is visiting Japan after his dad's death. One morning, Ben's grief turns to fear when a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village where he's staying. His family narrowly escapes a collapsing house, and the ocean is rising up. Ben and his family are swept away by a devastating tsunami. Now Ben is alone, stranded in an unfamiliar country. Can he find enough courage and strength to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time? In graphic novel format.

Date Published:2025

Internment

Ahmed, Samira, (Fiction writer),


School Library Journal starred, March 2019. Booklist starred, February 2019. Library Media Connection starred, March 2019. Pub Weekly, January 2019. Kirkus Starred, January 2019. New York Times, March 2019. Horn Book, March 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2019. Teacher Librarian, October 2019. "A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2020

School Library Journal starred, March 2019. Booklist starred, February 2019. Library Media Connection starred, March 2019. Pub Weekly, January 2019. Kirkus Starred, January 2019. New York Times, March 2019. Horn Book, March 2019. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2019. Teacher Librarian, October 2019. "A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2020

Isabel in bloom

Respicio, Mae,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.
Date Published:2024