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Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls – Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins by Leonard Sax

01 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If you're a parent (or a parental figure) to a girl (even if that girl is still an infant!), you MUST read this book. Which means you can stop reading this post here. Go get the book already ...

DupliKate by Cherry Cheva

30 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Thai American, Young Adult Readers

While I have to confess Cherry Cheva's sophomore novel is not quite the fabulous fun of her 2008 debut, She's So Money, I'll also insist that DupliKate (with the oh so perfect title!) is undoubtedly an entertaining read that will keep you quickly turning the pages. My teenage daughter chose...

How I Made It to Eighteen: a mostly true story by Tracy White

25 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Tracy White’s graphic sort-of-autobiography is “only mostly true because I skipped over things, moved events around, embellished, and occasionally just plain made things up,” she explains on the first page. “The technical term for this is dramatic license. I used it,” she adds in the...

Me and Rolly Maloo by Janet S. Wong, illustrated by Elizabeth Buttler

21 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Janet Wong has gone literally hybrid. Her latest title, debuting next month, is part graphic novel, part regular prose. Thanks to her flexible illustrator Elizabeth Buttler, the result is an entertaining new way for young readers to enjoy a story on different levels. Popular. pretty Rolly Maloo is...

Moon Bear by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Ed Young

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

"Who blinks in the sunlight / that peeks through the Himalayas?" ...

Not All Princesses Dress in Pink by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple, illustrated by Anne-Sophie Lanquetin

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

Let the giggling begin! Mother/daughter writing team of hundreds-and-hundreds-of-titles-between-the-two-of-them present girl power with a pink-less crown on top! And what an absolutely delightful collaboration indeed. Not to disparage the color pink – I admit it! I loathe the color! – but really, pink is just...

Amazing Faces with poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet

19 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonethnic-specific, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry

In a word – and to quote from the title – this book is amazing. Filled with poems chosen by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins that celebrate the wonders of our diversity, this gorgeous book is populated by the vibrant immediacy of Chris Soentpiet's stunning canvases...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

14 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If, at the end of reading (or, as in my case, listening to Fred Sanders read addictively out loud) this book, you are not completely and utterly convinced that human beings were born to run, I want to hear about it for sure. If you're...

The Tale of Despereaux: being the story of a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

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

Sometimes it takes me years to read certain books. Oftentimes, fear is involved. Sometimes when I like a book so very much, I'm afraid the next book by that author just might disappoint. So I do the denial thing and move said title deeper down...

Foiled by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mike Cavallaro

21 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Warning: I can't find any promises of a volume 2 (or 3, 4, or more!) anywhere in, on, or around this book. Nothing in the publicist's note, either! Uh-oh ...

Smile by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Stephanie Yue

18 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

For anyone and everyone who has or knows a middle-grader with braces (or about to get braces), this is the book of choice to share. "I've been telling people about what happened to my teeth ever since I knocked them out in sixth grade," writes...

The Adventures of Jack Lime by James Leck

17 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Jack Lime is a self-described "detective, a private investigator, a gumshoe." He's also a new student at Iona High School, who landed mid-9th grade in the ultra-planned, exclusive community from the City of Angels to live with his grandmother after the tragic death of his...

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak

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

It's no wonder that this kiddie classic by longtime DC-area local Audrey Penn has sold some 4.5 million copies! I can proudly say I've added more than a few copies to that total, as it's one of those incredibly appropriate stories for an experience that every...

Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson

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

The latest in what has become practically a franchise – Audrey Penn's Kissing Hand series – deals with an extremely difficult subject ...

My Father Knows the Names of Things by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch

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

With over 300 titles to her name, Jane Yolen simply couldn't be more prolific! Here she teams up with the whimsically fantastic illustrator Stéphane Jorisch who captures Yolen's delight-filled father/daughter adventures as they meet dogs walking their owner, paint a room seven shades of blue, get...

One Night in the Zoo by Judith Kerr

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

Here's a whimsical counting book that celebrates "[o]ne magical, moonlit night in the zoo ...

Barack the Barbarian: Quest for the Treasure of the Stimuli by Larry Hama (writer), Christopher Schons (artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist), Crank! (letterer), Evan Sult (editor/designer)

08 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Regardless of your politics (although there's no mistaking where longtime comics creator Larry Hama and the rest of his funny cronies' loyalties lie), you will definitely find many moments to guffaw over in this four-part comic series too entertaining to put down! The New Ice Age has...

City of Spies by Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan, artwork by Pascal Dizin

29 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Young Evelyn gets dumped at her surprised aunt’s posh NYC penthouse so her neglectful father can take yet another honeymoon with the latest young wife. Evelyn’s managed to escape her lonely life by creating her very own manga series, “The Amazing Adventures of Zirconium Man...

Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater, with Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines by William T. Vollmann [in Library Journal]

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

Vollmann (Imperial; Europe Central), who has tackled an astonishing array of subjects in fiction and nonfiction, here explores female beauty – its creation and consumption– with a spotlight on highly stylized traditional Japanese Noh theater. Because male actors wearing strictly codified masks perform all Noh roles, men,...

The Can Man by Laura E. Williams, illustrated by Craig Orback

28 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific

In today's tough times filled with unemployment woes and economic downturns, The Can Man is all too real a story. Once a neighbor with a job – and a real name, Mr. Peters – the homeless man everyone just calls The Can Man wanders the...

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