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...
From the genius mind that brought you the wordlessly breathtaking bestseller, The Arrival, comes a collection of 15 short stories for all ages, uniquely illustrated in Tan's signature enigmatic style. The second story, "Eric," about the visit by a foreign exchange student like no one has...
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...
Of course, there's no simple answer for who really discovered America. With lively humor and cartoon fun, Wyatt examines all the other explorers – Portuguese, Chinese, Norse, maybe even the Irish! – who reached American...
Written in sparse free verse, Janet Wong perceptively captures the elliptical communication of two best friends – caught in that nebulous zone of preteen angst – whose summer starts off...
When Alvin Ho gets scared, he can’t seem to talk ...
Based on the real-life experiences of author Guo, this beautifully illustrated thin volume captures the seven-year-old life of Little Leap Forward in 1966 Beijing. Playing by the riverbank one day, Little Leap Forward's best friend Little...
Eighth-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...
In 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...
Helen 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...
Ethnic 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...
For 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...
After he swears off girls forever, loner – some might even call him a loser – Albert Kim finds first love over the summer after sophomore year ...
High 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...
India 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...
When 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,...
Grace Lin uses her own childhood adventures in her second middle-grade title, the follow-up to last year’s successful The Year of the Dog. Pacy returns for another year of change and growth, with some...
The 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...
Best known for her highly entertaining picture books (The Runaway Rice Cake, The Real Story of Stone Soup), Compestine enters the young adult market with a story that draws on her own childhood during the crushing...
The ever-prolific Laurence Yep has penned a brand-new American Girls series featuring Mia, a talented skater who chooses figure skating over the ice hockey she’s grown up playing with her three older brothers. Dedicated and tenacious,...
