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BookDragon Young Adult Readers

Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Seventeen-year-old Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, aka "Maybe," escapes the clutches of her slimy stepfather-to-be, for whom her ex-beauty queen alcoholic mother insists she'll walk down the aisle a seventh time. Maybe decides it's high time to go find her real father, the one...

World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster [in San Francisco Chronicle]

24 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Poetry, Repost, Young Adult Readers

world-ball-notebook1The cover of Sesshu Foster's latest title, World Ball Notebook – with its leering skeleton partially superimposed on a photograph of children playing soccer on a city street flanked by abandoned buildings – is...

Little Rock Nine by Marshall Poe, illustrated by Ellen Lindner [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

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In graphic novel format just right for younger readers, Little Rock Nine deftly captures one of the most important moments in U.S. history when nine brave African American teens integrated all-white Central High School in...

Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Malaysian, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

evening-is-a-whole-dayThe wealthy Rajesekharan family of Ipoh, Malaysia is suddenly in shambles. Chellam, one of the family servants, has been mysteriously dismissed and leaves in utter disgrace. The bitter, difficult family matriarch is dead. Her son is...

I Live Here by Mia Kirschner, J.B. MacKinnon, Paul Shoebridge, and Michael Simons [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost, Thai, Young Adult Readers

i-live-hereA genre-defying four-book documentary that captures the raw lives of refugees surviving war in Chechnya, the deadly sex-trade along the Burma/Thai border, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. Sometimes, the jaw just drops in utterly...

Alicia Afterimage by Lulu Delacre [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

alicia-afterimageA mourning mother remembers the brief life of her vibrant 16-year-old daughter who was tragically killed in a car crash. She gathers the voices of her daughter’s friends and schoolmates through snippets of shared memories to...

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina García [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Cuban American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

i-wanna-be-your-shoeboxEighth-grader Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch, a Japanese/Cuban/Jewish American hapa, has a life as complicated as her heritage. Her no-nonsense mother's got a new boyfriend. Her rock-'n-roll songwriter father hasn't outgrown adolescence. Her friends all seem to be going...

Dragon Road by Laurence Yep [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

dragon-roadIn the latest of Laurence Yep's Golden Mountain Chronicles, longtime buddies Cal and Barney are looking for a way out of San Francisco's Chinatown in 1939. An invitation to join an all-Chinese American basketball...

Outside Beauty by Cynthia Kadohata [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

outside-beautyHelen Kimura has survived and thrived by using her irresistable beauty to get exactly what she wants. Steely and independent, she's never succumbed to anyone else's expectations but her own. Her four daughters by four different...

Indie Girl by Kavita Daswani [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

indie-girlEthnic chick-lit favorite Kavita Daswani makes her young adult debut with a fun, breezy read starring one Indie Konkipuddi, a 15-year-old style-queen-in-the-making. While her neurosurgeon father can't understand why she would take a weekend...

Slant by Laura E. Williams [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

slantFor years, 13-year-old Korean adoptee Lauren has endured the usual racial taunts for looking so different amidst her homogeneous fellow students in suburban Connecticut. Her popular and fearless best friend has done a far better job...

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before by David Yoo [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-one-beforeAfter he swears off girls forever, loner – some might even call him a loser – Albert Kim finds first love over the summer after sophomore year ...

Good Enough by Paula Yoo [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

good-enoughHigh school senior Patti Yoon, the perfect Korean American daughter studying for her perfect SAT scores, perfectly playing the violin, aiming for HYP (KorEnglish for HarvardYalePrinceton), and (of course!) never talking to boys, discovers her feisty...

Once They Hear My Name: Korean Adoptees and Their Journeys Toward Identity edited by Ellen Lee, Marilyn Lammert, and Mary Anne Hess [in Christian Science Monitor]

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

once-they-hear-my-name"When I got to college I said I was adopted, right off the bat,” says Todd Knowlton, a 33-year-old Korean-American adoptee. “It doesn’t bother me, but once they hear my last name, people always ask uncomfortable...

The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr

19 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Lebanese, Lebanese American, Young Adult Readers

Perfect ManNaeem Murr’s latest novel is a near-perfect coming-of-age story about an Indian-born, London-raised young man, dropped into the American Midwest virtually without support, and was last year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Europe...

A Golden Age [Bengal Trilogy, Book 1] by Tahmima Anam [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Bangladeshi, Bangladeshi American, British Asian, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

golden-ageHere’s the best news up front: Tahmima Anam’s impressive debut is the first of a planned trilogy. While still mourning the sudden loss of her too-young husband, Rehana loses custody of her young son...

Ral & Grad (vol. 1) by Tsuneo Takano, translated by Tony Cusdin with English adaptation by Kelly Sue DeConnick [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

ral-and-gradMarked with a “Parental Advisory,” this is not your regular kiddie fare. Imprisoned in darkness since birth, Ral and his powerful shadow dragon, Grad, who shares Ral’s very being, are finally released at age 15 to...

Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

climbing-the-stairsIndia in the 1940s is a time of tumultuous violence – the British troops are subduing independence efforts, citizens of different religious backgrounds are fighting each other, World War II is raging in Europe, and the...

Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian African, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, Young Adult Readers

child-of-dandelionsWhen the brutal dictator Idi Amin violently grabbed power over Uganda, he declared in August 1972, that within 90 days all Indians would have to leave the country. Part of Uganda’s population since the 16th century,...

Fairy Tail (vols. 1-2) by Hiro Mashima, translated by William Flanagan [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

fairy-tailThe first two volumes of one of Japan’s top 10 manga bestsellers make their Stateside debut. Join the over-the-top adventures of newly inducted magic-key-carrying wizard Lucy (did she have to be so Barbie-like? Please!), motion-challenged fire...

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