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Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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AAPI Heritage Month
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
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Description
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.
2) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
4) Level up
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Dennis, the son of Chinese immigrants, yearns to play video games like his friends and, upon his strict father's death, becomes obsessed with them but later, realizing how his father sacrificed for him, he chooses a nobler path.
5) Dragon hoops
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches especially the high school's basketball team, the Dragons.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars—at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name.
In Messy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the girl who simply wants to make the basketball team, escape Chinese school, and figure out why girls make her heart flutter."--
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