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Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy [in School Library Journal]

03 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW "The word fat makes some people uncomfortable," Willowdean Dickson remarks. Called Dumplin’ by her mother, Will insists that fat is "not an insult." She's comfortably self-aware, buoyed by her late aunt, whom she still deeply mourns, and her picture-perfect best friend. When she introduces herself...

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Ha-yun Jung [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Credited with revitalizing Korea’s publishing industry, Shin’s 2011 Please Look After Mom (the author’s debut in English) made this international powerhouse the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her latest, arriving stateside 20 years after its Korean publication, is part memoir,...

The Marvels by Brian Selznick

05 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, British, Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Wonderstruck. I know, I know – that's the title of Brian Selznick’s previous jaw-dropping accomplishment on the page ...

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

17 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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 Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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 Inker’s Shadow by Allen Say

14 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Thanhhà Lại’s Listen, Slowly

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

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

28 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 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...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Mitali Perkins’ Secret Keeper

26 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian, South Asian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers
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Dance of the Banished by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

26 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian, Central Asian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Turkish, Young Adult Readers

The year is 1913. Zeynep and Ali are teenage lovers in Anatolia (once Asia Minor, now modern Turkey) who part with a lingering sense of bitterness: Ali's impending departure breaks their promise of escaping their village together. Feeling betrayed, Zeynep turns away: "I refuse to be your...

Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera

24 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, South Asian, South Asian American, Sri Lankan, Sri Lankan American

In a house by the sea in Colombo, Sri Lanka, live two families: below are the Sinhala owners, the Rajasinghes with two daughters, Yasodhara and Lanka; upstairs are the Tamil clan of Shivalingams with their son, Shiva, twinned by a shared birthday to Yasodhara. While the...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Eric Gansworth’s If I Ever Get Out of Here

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Interview [Bloom]

19 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction, Repost

Freshly back from the Jersey Shore, debut novelist P.S. Duffy talks about writing her first book at age 10 although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was 65, her inability to ever return to her birth country of China, and how a stranger’s...

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.S. Duffy + Author Profile [Bloom]

17 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, European, Fiction

“Define moral certainty”: The Great War in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land “Moral certainty.” “Righteous anger.” “God’s retribution.” The Great War implodes humanity in “No Man’s Land – a cratered landscape of ruin” in P.S. Duffy’s first novel. Published in October 2013 when Duffy was 65, The...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Lamar Giles’ Fake ID

14 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Jillian Tamaki’s SuperMutant Magic Academy

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers

Dragonfish by Vu Tran + Author Interview [in Bloom]

05 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

“This man who once saved your life, he is not a bad man. Nor a good one,” a mother writes her daughter. “I have long given up on what it means exactly to be either. But I am confident now that you must know one...

The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

03 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

"Well, my mama was a hairdresser, but she had this big dream that what she really wanted to be one day was a – an astronomer," 12-year-old Galileo Galilei Barnes explains to her teacher and class on her first day at her new school. Pointing at the...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Sara Farizan’s Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

22 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Iranian, Iranian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2015, Young Adult Readers
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