American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults edited by Lori M. Carlson [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
03 Mar, by in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories, Young Adult Readers
A collection of 10 short works about young Asian Americans coming of age, coming to terms with an identity comprised of two very different cultures. Stories range from a young Chinese American girl obsessed...
A collection of short stories, poetry, and play excerpts from both established and new Asian American writers, about growing up Asian American. Caught between two cultures, the young voices of this collection ask,...
Sookan, the protagonist from 
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Ten-year-old Shao-shao is the youngest child in a large family living in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the end of World War II. Everyday life for him means going to...
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Independent, headstrong Sabah heads to India in search of her ethnic identity. What she finds in the wealthy world of her Indian relatives is a liberal Westernized culture bound by strict traditions, where the...
When famine strikes northern China in 1871, Lalu Nathoy is sold off at age 13, is eventually taken by a slave merchant to America, and auctioned off to a seedy...
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A coming-of-age novel about an adolescent named Olivia who, with her parents, her three brothers, and her tortuous grandmother, live a traveling life, following the search for available jobs. Her world is filled with...
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Rio, a feisty young schoolgirl, comes of age in turbulent Manila during the final dictatorship in the Philippines. Her world is populated with American films and movie starts, soda shops, political corruption and turmoil, and a...
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Sarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean. Months after the wedding, Roland returns to his native Guiana, embroiled in its political turmoil....
At 12, Donald Duk dislikes his name and is less than comfortable with his Chinese heritage. Chinese New Year is just around the corner, but he’s hardly in a festive mood. Little by little,...