BookDragon Fiction

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

09 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Myanmarese (Burmese), Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

Inspired by three years of living in Thailand with her family and visiting refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, Mitali Perkins’ latest novel follows the lives of two boys on...

What Janie Found by Caroline B. Cooney

07 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

The final title of Caroline B. Cooney's award-winning Janie Johnson quartet begins with a newspaper article that marks the anniversary of the "Missing Child Milk Carton Campaign" that – for better...

The Voice on the Radio by Caroline B. Cooney

07 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

If you haven’t read the first two titles of the Janie Johnson quartet, then skip this post for sure … no fun knowing too much! And, as the third volume proves, knowing...

Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney

06 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Award-winning author Caroline Cooney never intended to write a sequel to The Face on the Milk Carton, which she ends with an uncertain telephone call: "I wanted you...

I See the Sun in China by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith Inglese, translation by Yan Zhang

05 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

A young girl wakes with excitement, anticipating her early morning ferry ride that will take her from her village to visit her aunt in big-city Shanghai. At Auntie Yen's apartment, she...

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin

04 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Fiction

Bolanle is the only one of Baba Segi's four wives who is literate, has a college education, and retains her own name. When she becomes the prized final wife of...

Author Interview: Audrey Niffenegger [in Bookslut]

03 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, British, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Sometimes jet lag has its advantages. Amazingly enough, I caught Audrey Niffenegger soon after her London arrival, when she wasn’t sleeping – “I am very bad at jet lag,” she confesses....

Taro and the Magic Pencil by Sango Morimoto, translated by Katherine Schilling

02 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation

Parents might recognize (and appreciate) the derivative homage to children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon, Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli's animated Howl's Moving Castle, and more ...

It’s a Book by Lane Smith

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Delighted guffawing is inevitable as soon as you open the pages. And most especially fitting if you are a proud, obstinate Luddite like me! Move over Kindles, Nooks, iPads, Vooks, and whatever other...

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

31 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

As today is Halloween, here's a story that promises to scare, chill, and thrill you ...

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli

30 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

David, age 9, and Primrose, age 13, make for strange friends, especially with the rate at which they seem to enjoy exchanging "I hate you!"-moments! But David is new to own, living with his grandmother since his mother suddenly died last year from a freak...

Saturn Apartments (vol. 1) by Hisae Iwaoka, translated by Matt Thorn

25 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Since all of earth has been declared a nature preserve, mankind now inhabits a "giant apartment complex," which orbits 35,000 meters above the deserted planet. Society is literally stratified, with the upper level residents afforded greater privileges while the basement dwellers live with limited resources. Five...

Pop by Gordon Korman

24 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Parents, don't let your kids grow up to be football players! If ever you needed convincing, read this book ...

Cross Game 1 (vols. 1-3) by Mitsuru Adachi, translated by Ralph Yamada and Lillian Olsen

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

How cool is this? You can read the serialized version of this manga by clicking here. Or, you can watch the anime version online by clicking here. Although, I'll have to admit that I much prefer having it all right here in one book (the first...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

22 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction

I admit that when one of my favorite friends told me she voluntarily gave up enjoying the blooming delights on a family trip through Death Valley in order to finish The Help, I picked up the book for a second time, determined to find out...

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

21 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

If you had any doubts before, pick up some of Laurie Halse Anderson's titles – her now-classic Speak and Wintergirls, to start – and you can't help but realize that today's high schools can be utter hell. [You could also go check out the new...

20th Century Boys (vol. 11) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller

20 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Most teenagers seem to go through that 'I-hate-my-parents'-phase ...

Quiet As They Come by Angie Chau [in San Francisco Chronicle]

17 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

Through 11 dovetailing stories that begin in the 1980s and move toward today, Angie Chau's absorbing debut collection, Quiet As They Come, follows three branches of an extended family that has miraculously escaped the Vietnam War. The 12 refugees attempt to adapt and survive the...

Vagabond (VIZBIG 1: vols. 1-3) by Takehiko Inoue, based on Eiji Yoshikawa’s Musashi, English adaptation by Yuji Oniki

16 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Who knew blood and gore could fly off a printed page? The opening three-volume compendium of this international bestseller showcases some of the most graphic (pardon the pun) violence in pen and ink … don’t read this alone at night. Those unblinking corpses hacked to...

Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, translated by Cindy Carter [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Translation

Censored in China, the latest novel in English translation from Yan Lianke (Serve the People!) is a brutal morality tale of a country undergoing transition; the citizens are mere “dogs, or chickens, or ants crushed underfoot” in a larger-than-life tragedy. China’s plan to fill its...