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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 by Kirby Larson

07 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

How’s this for new math: the first 286 pages hold about the same weight as the final 25 pages. The fictional diary expounds and entertains, revealing a 13-year-old’s West Coast experiences during World War II; the ending “Life in America in 1941” section illuminates and...

The Longshot by Katie Kitamura

11 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Along the lines of Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Neal Bascomb's The Perfect Mile being running books, or Chris Cleave's Gold a biking title, or Thien Pham's Sumo and Gail Tsukiyama's The Street of a Thousand Blossoms sumo wrestling books, Katie Kitamura's debut is a boxing novel – or...

The Favorite Daughter by Allen Say

11 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Memoir

Well, goodness ...

Truck Stop by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Melissa Iwai

22 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific

When our son broke his little toddler wrist (one of those moments parents will always remember in slow motion), he was so attached to his truck-of-the-moment that his chubby fingers never let go of this mini-vehicle even during his x-ray. Now that he's almost ready...

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

14 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American

You might choose to read Ruth Ozeki's latest novel as another engrossing, original story – because it clearly is. And if you decide to stick the novel in your ears, you'll be thrilled and grateful to know that Ozeki herself reads to you – her...

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tashis, illustrated by Scott Dawson

07 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Today – December 7, 2012 – is the 71st anniversary of the "date which will live in infamy," as named by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in describing the assault on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base and launching the United States into World War II. That the attackers...

Publisher Interview: Sunyoung Lee and Kaya Press [in Bookslut]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese American, Korean American, Pan-Asian, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry, Repost, Translation

Early this year, at almost 18 years old, Kaya Press flew the nest. Leaving behind the comfort and familiarity of New York's publishing world, the non-profit indie specializing in "books from the Asian diaspora," moved offices across the country to Los Angeles. Now comfortably ensconced...

Requiem by Frances Itani

15 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese American

While I can hardly estimate the many, many books I’ve read about the Japanese American experience during World War II, I know few details about what happened to Japanese Canadians. The lone fact that looms is that like their Japanese American counterparts on the West...

The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

08 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American

For one reason or another, I've taken many years to finally finish a Gail Tsukiyama novel. I've started a few, gotten distracted and put each aside, but this time, after noticing that she was one of the few APA authors at this year's National Book...

Amulet | Book Five: Prince of the Elves by Kazu Kibuishi

01 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

When's the last time you competed with one of your kids to read a book? Especially when said child is usually not so interested in anything without a screen? Good thing my bedtime is a little later than his, or else I'd never have gotten...

B by Sarah Kay, illustrated by Sophia Janowitz

30 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Young Adult Readers

Although spoken word artist Sarah Kay's TED debut was over a year-and-a-half-ago, her video seems to be in the midst of re-discovery. Via email, listservs, and (dreaded) Facebook, her poetry kept appearing in my daily life this last week, which (of course) prompted me to...

Flying the Dragon by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

27 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers

Soccer-loving fifth-grader Skye lives in Virginia, just outside DC, with her American mother and her Japanese father. Her best friend recently moved to San Francisco, but Skye's getting to know her All-Star teammates better now that she's finally made the team. On the other side of...

Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

22 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Japanese American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers

Sylvia Mendez and Aki Munemitsu shared the same yellow bedroom as young children, just not at the same time. While Aki and her family were imprisoned in Poston, Arizona during World War II for no other reason than their Japanese heritage, Sylvia and her family leased...

Children of Manzanar edited by Heather C. Lindquist

24 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

The PR materials that arrived with this remarkable title contains one of the most effective descriptions of the Japanese American imprisonment during World War II I've ever read: " ...

Ichiro by Ryan Inzana

19 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

A shape-shifting teapot which releases a mischievous tanuki when heated. A fatherless hapa Japanese American boy headed to Japan to stay with his mother's father whom he barely knows. Two stories, two cultures, two vastly different worlds, all intertwine to create a fantastical adventure in Ryan Inzana's surprising,...

It’s a Big World, LIttle Pig! by Kristi Yamaguchi, illustrated by Tim Bowers

10 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Japanese American

Introduced in last year's bestselling, award-winning Dream Big, Little Pig!, tenacious little Poppy did just that and proved that pigs can indeed fly ...

March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, edited by Elmer Luke and David Karashima [in Christian Science Monitor]

06 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation

March 11, 2011, 14:46 Japan Standard Time: A magnitude-9.0 earthquake lasts six minutes, followed by a 50-foot tsunami that, within 15 minutes, plows inland six miles and causes meltdowns in five nuclear plants. “In one’s wildest imagination, this is beyond conceivable,” write editors Elmer Luke...

Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap, illustrated by Mari Araki

19 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian American, Japanese American, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

"Dear Mr. Jean Paul Sartre, I know that you are dead and old and also a philosopher. So, on an obvious level, you and I do not have a lot in common." Thus begins 15-year-old Tina's class project for her English Honors elective on existential...

Drawing From Memory by Allen Say and The House Baba Built by Ed Young [in The New York Times]

11 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Japanese American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost

What formative experiences make a great children’s book illustrator? In the case of Allen Say and Ed Young, both Caldecott medalists, the journey begins with unusual childhoods in wartime Asia. Connecting the dots from those beginnings to what would become long and successful careers, Drawing...

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

10 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Young Adult Readers

Almost 10 years after Julie Otsuka made her spectacular literary debut with When the Emperor Was Divine, I remain even more convinced that Emperor is the best book I've ever read about the Japanese American imprisonment during World War II. Truth be told, Emperor ranks so high on...

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