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Avatar: The Last Airbender | The Rift (Part Two) created by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino, script by Gene Luen Yang, art by Gurihiru, lettering by Michael Heisler

25 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Young Adult Readers

Just to be totally up front, we have four months of waiting for Part Three. Just saying (and sighing). Until then, in case you need to flash back, here's a look at Part One, which landed Avatar Aang and his motley entourage at what should have been the...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame

25 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Mongolian, Tibetan, Translation, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Moon Watchers: Shirin’s Ramadan Miracle by Reza Jalali, illustrated by Anne Sibley O’Brien

24 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Iranian American

Welcome to Ramadan at Shirin's house: she sky-gazes with her father, listens to stories told by her grandmother, helps her mother sort squares for a new quilt ...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Sarwat Chadda’s Ash Mistry Chronicles

23 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Nabeel’s New Pants: An Eid Tale retold by Fawzia Gilani-Williams, illustrated by Proiti Roy

21 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Indian African, Indian American

While you're preparing for Eid– which should begin next week on July 29 (the moon has a calendar all its own!) – add ordering, buying, or borrowing this book to your list of to-do's right now. Nabeel and his family are about to provide quite the nourishment for the soul. Ramadan,...

Hattie Ever After by Kirby Larson

20 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Readers with groupie-tendencies (like me), take careful note: Hattie Ever After is positive proof that if you ask an author enough times for more, you just might receive. "When I left Hattie at the end of Hattie Big Sky," confesses Kirby Larson in her ending "Author's...

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 10) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Open this penultimate volume, and the belly begins flip-flopping over how it might – must? – end. Creator Shuzo Oshimi has clearly shown himself to be one scary manipulator, so already I'm trying to prepare for the inevitably shattering shock this October when that final installment comes out. Oh, but the agony of...

Our Happy Time by Gong Ji-young, translated by Sora Kim-Russell

17 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation

Not to discourage anyone, but feel free to stop reading any further and just go to your favorite bookstore, walk to your nearest library, click online, or visit your most literary buddy's shelves, and open to the first page of Our Happy Time as soon...

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

14 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race

So here I sit facing a familiar conundrum ...

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

13 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Australian, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Micah is a boy. Micah is a girl. Micah is 17, a senior in a progressive New York City private school. Micah's father went to Marseille in search of his unknown black French father and came back with a white French wife. Micah's father is an...

GTO: 14 Days in Shonan (vols. 1-2) by Tohru Fujisawa, translated by Ko Ransom

11 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Apparently, I've jumped way ahead and will need to go backwards sooner than later: GTO: 14 Days in Shonan is the sequel to the wildly successful original GTO which debuted in 1997 and quickly thereafter became a TV drama, live-action film, anime, and more. And the...

The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

09 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Afghan, Afghan American, Audio, Fiction

See the entwined pair of hands? Although the girl and woman never meet, they remain forever bound by both blood and experience over a tumultuous century in Afghanistan. The woman is Shekiba, the only daughter in a family of sons, whose gender alone makes her a target of abuse...

Chukfi Rabbit’s Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale told by Greg Rodgers, illustrated by Leslie Stall Widener

08 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples

Welcome to Choctaw country: native storyteller Greg Rodgers re-introduces a "hidden away" tale transcribed from the 1930s to "the living world of Choctaw literature," while native artist Leslie Stall Widener animates Rodgers' words with whimsical renditions of the animal characters garbed in Choctaw-inspired colorful duds. Young (and old, ahem!)...

The Last Werewolf Trilogy: The Last Werewolf, Talulla Rising, By Blood We Live by Glen Duncan

07 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race

In a roundabout way I can't quite recall, I ended up at this 2007 New York Times article, "Young Man Behaving Badly," and learned that bestselling author Glen Duncan is hapa British Asian. I found his latest title, By Blood We Live, magically waiting on my shelves, only...

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

04 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Although Fridays are predominantly reserved for manga, I thought July Fourth trumped the usual today. Kirby Larson’s Hattie Big Sky, a 2007 Newbery Honor title, examines American patriotism from a perspective I can't remember encountering before in fiction. While the target audience is younger readers, surely adults...

My Pet Rattlesnake by Joe Hayes, illustrated by Antonio Castro L.

03 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

"When I was a kid, I was what you might call a desert rat," begins renowned American Southwest storyteller Joe Hayes’ latest picture book from boutique indie Cinco Puntos Press. Once upon a time, that desert rat-kid stumbles on a rattlesnake trapped under a rock and releases...

Sidewalk Dancing: A Novel in Stories by Letitia Moffitt

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Hawaiian, Short Stories

Two genres set my reading heart aflutter: novels in verse (highly ironic as I am an utter poetry dullard) and interlinked short storied novels. Hapa Hawaiian native Letitia Moffit’s Sidewalk Dancing falls in the latter category ...

The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen by Thelma Lynne Godin, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton

01 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction

Welcome to the corner of Broadway and West 139th Street in New York City: Today, Kameeka is determined that she will finally claim her rightful title as the Hula-Hoopin' Queen of 139th Street! But today is also the beloved Miz Adeline's birthday – "I love Miz...

Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle

29 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Nate Foster, who at "four foot eight" looks much younger that his almost-14 years, makes up for his diminutive height with outsized dreams – and the grandest of plans to make them come true. While his parents are away for a romantic weekend (Dad's trying to make...

Ninja Red Riding Hood by Corey Rosen Schwartz, illustrated by Dan Santat

26 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Southeast Asian American, Thai American

And you thought you knew Little Red and the Big Wolf? Look again ...

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