Bhangra Babes by Narinder Dhami [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in British, British Asian, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
The third installment in the entertaining lives of Amber, Jazz, and Geena Dhillon, three fabulous sisters who befriend a new girl in school – who isn’t exactly a poster child for niceness – even as the...
An unput-down-able romp of a fun novel (with a few very serious moments) starring hapa (half-Asian, half-not) Patty Ho who goes from awkward Seattle suburb freshman to adventurous, independent Stanford summer math camper.
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After Pearl Harbor is bombed, every little thing changes for 12-year-old Sumiko, who lives on her aunt and uncle’s flower farm in California with her brother and cousins. Even though she’s an American, Sumiko and her...
The return in a new paperback edition of the second of a resonating historical trilogy that follows the young life of Adam Pelko. In A Boy at War, Adam is a high school student who experiences...
While sitting in his bedroom grudgingly trying to do his Monday homework, Kevin is shocked to find standing before him, the great archer Chu-mong, a Chinese royal who becomes a Korean king. The lost royal has...
Although the main character is just 9, the book is definitely for an older audience. Kati’s happy life with her grandparents is disrupted by a visit to her mother, whom Kati has not seen for almost...
From the prolific Laurence Yep, last year’s Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner for substantial achievement in children’s literature, comes the quickly-moving story of the devastating 1906 earthquake and the inevitable great fire, told through the experiences...
Spunky Ruby Lu of 20th Avenue South, Seattle, who made her debut in Brave and True (newly available in paperback), now has two books bearing her name, and both are wonderfully entertaining tales of just plain...
As her husband recovered from cancer treatments, Grace Lin wrote Robert’s Snow, the delightful adventures of a tiny mouse, to celebrate their good fortune. But just months later, Lin and her husband – also...
So much for the overachieving model minority myth: Meet Stanford Wong, basketball star and the only 7th-grader on the middle-school A-Team – but only if he can get past 6th-grade...
The second in this exciting new series about five young brother monks who are the only survivors when an errant sixth brother destroys the temple which they all once called home. Malao,...
Recently re-released under this new title, this charming coming-of-age tale introduces teenager Sunita Sen, a tennis-playing, pizza-craving, California girl who suddenly becomes self-conscious of her Indian heritage when...
Asian American-by-marriage, 
The third adventure in the entertaining 
Pa Lia Vang starts her first day of second grade at Jackson Magnet, quickly encounters the “enemy of the second grade,” makes friends with two nicer kids, gets in trouble,...
After her mother suddenly deserts the family, Amy and her father are left alone to create a new life across the country in California. A heartbreaking coming-of-age tale about growing up Cambodian...
When Kellach and Driskoll’s beloved mother reappears after mysteriously disappearing five years ago, the family’s initially joyful reunion is overshadowed by the presence of evil. It’s up to Kellach and his girl-power buddy Moyra...
The inaugural title of an entertaining new series introduces five 17th-century Chinese young monks, each with special powers, who must save their world from destruction by one of their fellow brethren gone...
Got the publication date confused and held it longer than intended – but can’t let it go without saying this is a grand coming-of-age story. Jazz Gardner travels to India with her family where...
The first two installments of a new trilogy from YA master Yep. Tiger’s Apprentice opens with the untimely death of Mistress Lee, the current Guardian of the mysterious rose which holds the future hope...