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The Complete Chi’s Sweet Home (Part 1) by Konami Kanata, translated by Ed Chavez

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

Who can resist a lost little kitten? Furry-friendlies unite: this adorable black-grey-and-white fluff-bundle will set your heart all aflutter. Wandering out with Mommy Cat and two siblings, this little one gets lost. She's woofed at by a dog (thankfully leashed), and narrowly misses getting run over...

Zen Socks by Jon J. Muth

23 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Who knew ...

Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago, illustrated by Rafael Yockteng, translated by Elisa Amado

21 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Translation

A young girl and her father are traveling, with little more than a backpack each. She counts what she sees to pass the time: cows, hens, a bored donkey, the clouds ...

Secret Coders (Volume 1) by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes

18 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Listen. I'm going to tell you a story -- " Well, of course, if two-time National Book Award finalist (third time will be the charm!) Gene Luen Yang is involved with the explicating, you're going to listen, and listen well. This former high school computer science...

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

17 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

This week, the National Book Foundation is releasing the longlists category by category, day by day, for the coveted National Book Award (winners will be announced November 18). Included among the 10 titles cited for "Young People's Literature" is Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap. [I confess I have fingers,...

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash

16 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

At 17, Maggie Thrash and her mother are visiting her brother in New Mexico where he's attending college. "I don't approve of your running off with this person you haven't seen in two years," her mother admonishes her, while her brother deadpans a "I'm bitterly...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

15 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

So you know how the book ends by the second paragraph in the "Prologue." But holy moly, once you start, you'll want to experience every detail of how the eponymous boys in the boat – "nine young men from the state of Washington – farm boys, fisherman, and...

The Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say

14 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Caldecott Medalist author/illustrator Allen Say introduced his personal portrait-of-an-artist-as-a-young-man in the one title he didn't illustrate, the autobiographical middle-grade novel, The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice, originally published in 1979. More than three decades later, in 2011, Say returned to his early artistic journey, reworking his Apprentice into a...

An Iranian Metamorphosis by Mana Neyestani, translated by Ghazal Mosadeq

11 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Iranian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

One unintentionally wrong word uttered in a children's cartoon lost Mana Neyestani his job, his freedom, and nearly his life. As editor of the children's pages for Iran's Iran-Jomeh, Neyestani drew his recurring 10-year-old character confronting a cockroach that replies with a single Azeri word: "Namana." As Neyestani...

Dalia’s Wondrous Hair/ El cabello maravilloso de Dalia by Laura Lacámara, translated by Gabriela Baeza

10 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Translation

One night as Dalia sleeps, her hair grows "straight up to the sky, tall and thick as a Cuban royal palm tree." Delighted, Dalia decorates her gorgeous locks with "wild tamarind, violet and coontie leaves," then requests that her mother guess "what kind of tree I...

The Bishop’s Wife [A Linda Wallheim Mystery, Book 1] by Mette Ivie Harrison

09 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Here in my temporary exile in the Beehive State, I remain fascinated by the religion that dominates my current location. In a moment of ironic timing, as I was wandering the many surrounding mountains with narrator Kirsten Potter stuck in the ears, this passage stuck: "Whenever friends from other...

Colossal Paper Machines created by Phil Conigliaro, text by Theo Baker

07 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Labor Day already? How about some working fun – literally??!! The directions are right on the cover: pop out, fold, glue. It really is that straight-forward to create these "10 giants models that move!" They're not exaggerating on size: the book alone is a few pounds of heavy...

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud

04 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Oh, holy moly ...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Cynthia Kadohata’s Half a World Away

03 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Central Asian, Fiction, Japanese American, Kazakhstani, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

The Beast in My Belly by Grzegorz Kasdepke, illustrated by Tomek Kozłowski, translated by Agnes Monod-Gayraud

03 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Translation

You know those days you forget to eat because you're running around here and there, and your belly LOUDLY (usually at inopportune moments) reminds you to "FEEEEEED MEEEE!!!"? Those grumbles and rumbles DO sound just like a hidden beast! If you're an inquisitive kid who hasn't...

A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova

02 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Russian, Russian American, Young Adult Readers

Dasha is 12. She lives in a four-room apartment in Moscow with her mother and her grandparents. Her father lives in Los Angeles. She would like a cat, but she's too allergic. One night, she overhears her grandmother assuring her mother: "She will be fine. We...

The Little Tree by Muon Van, illustrated by JoAnn Adinolfi

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, South Asian American, Vietnamese American

Somewhere in an old forest, a little tree grows. But the forest is shrinking, the rains shower less often, and the little tree knows that her precious seed cannot flourish there. With the help of a brown bird who has flown far into the blue skies, she sends...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Thanhhà Lại’s Listen, Slowly

31 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015

China Rich Girlfriend [Crazy Rich Asians 2] by Kevin Kwan

31 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Summer is waning way too quickly, but you still have a final week left to indulge in frothy reads: the over-the-top excesses of Singaporean Manhattanite Kevin Kwan’s novels might be just what you've been looking for as Labor Day looms. If you haven't yet relished Kwan's debut,...

Wandering Son (vol. 8) by Shimura Takako, translated by Matt Thorn

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

Adolescence is difficult enough to navigate, but throw in a few gender-bender issues and you've got multiple challenges earlier generations probably didn't (wouldn't? couldn't?) openly face. With all manner of identity awareness growing worldwide, Shimura Takako’s award-winning, internationally lauded manga series gently and insightfully reflects the gender spectrum on...

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