Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - United States - Asian American

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The Name Jar

Yangsook Choi

The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So in...

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Published: Oct 2003

The Year of the Dog

Grace Lin

It's the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to 'find herself.' Universal themes of friendship, family, and finding one's life passions make this novel a...

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Published: May 2007

The Lotus Seed

Sherry Garland

When she is forced to leave Vietnam, a young girl brings a lotus seed with her to America in remembrance of her homeland. Reprint. Reading Rainbow. PW. AB.

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Published: Feb 1997

Grandfather Counts (Reading Rainbow B...

Andrea Cheng

When Helen's grandfather, Gong Gong, comes from China to live with her family, he's shocked to find that none of his grandchildren speak Chinese. How will he communicate with them? At first he keeps to himself. Then one day he joins H...

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Published: Apr 2003

A Step from Heaven

Na An

From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award–winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey...

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Published: Jul 2016

Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky

Sandra Dallas

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself a...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Vanderbeekers Make a Wish (The Va...

Karina Yan Glaser

Witness the power of family history and family love in this funny, poignant addition to a series that the New York Times Book Reviewhails as “delightful and heartwarming.” It’s summer on 141st Street, and the Vander...

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Published: Sep 2022
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