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Tofu Quilt by Ching Yeung Russell

16 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Based on the Ching Yeung Russell's own path toward becoming a writer, Tofu Quilt is one delicious free-verse memoir. In the summer before she starts kindergarten, Yeung Ying is a rambunctious young child who cannot sit still, but can effortlessly recite the difficult classical poems...

Border Town by Shen Congwen, translated by Jeffrey C. Kinkley

04 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Translation

September 26 through October 3 this year is "Banned Books Week"! Good thing someone one told me! So how fitting that I was lucky enough to receive Border Town, the pre-Communist Revolution masterpiece by Shen Congwen (1902-1988), who although virtually unknown in the West, is...

My Name is Phillis Wheatley: A Story of Slavery and Freedom by Afua Cooper

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

At just age 19, in the year 1773, the American slave Phillis Wheatley made her literary debut to a welcoming London audience waiting to hear from her upcoming poetry collection. Born free in Senegal, the young poet – originally named Penda Wane – was captured...

My Name is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom by Afua Cooper

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

A fictionalized biography of a heroic young man born into slavery in 1814 and determined against all odds to be free. With the history of slaveowners abusing their women slaves reflected in his pale face, Henry Bibb could pass for white. Raised together with the...

Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) by Lisa Yee, illustrated by Dan Santat

27 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian American, Thai American

Just in time for back-to-school, Lisa Yee (of the fabulous Millicent/Stanford/Emily trilogy) debuts her latest middle grade novel about two best friends who suddenly find each other on opposing sides ...

Moonlight Memoirs: Remembering that Family and Friends are Forever by Maggie Mei Lewis, illustrated by Melody Lea Lamb

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

Two young mice, out "on a cold, lonely night," meet a mysterious older mouse who leads them to a magical place where "departed loves ones" appear to remind the two adventurers that they will never be alone. "They're not truly gone, but watch over you...

My Papa Diego and Me: Memories of My Father and His Art by Guadalupe Rivera Marín and Diego Rivera

25 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction

Guadalupe Rivera Marín grew up inspiring her legendary artist father, the Mexican muralist and sculptor Diego Rivera. Marin chooses some of her favorite works by her father – including a few for which she sat as his model – and shares both memories and lessons of...

The Sound of Water by Sanjay Bahadur

17 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, South American

Based on actual tragic event in a remote Indian coalmine in 2001, Badahur – an ex-director in the Indian Ministry of Coal until 2006 – makes his literary debut with a scathing insider's look at the tainted coal industry. Badahur recounts the multifaceted layers of the...

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley

14 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Young Adult Readers

I have to confess that had my teenaged daughter not handed me the book and said, "it's great, I loved it," I probably wouldn't have finished this latest title from Justina Chen Headley whose debut, Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies), remains...

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

23 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Since Lisa See's latest has been sitting high on all the best bestseller lists for many weeks, presumably many have already read the  story of two sisters and their odyssey from China to LA's Chinatown. I probably should have done the same – read the...

Children of the Sea (vol. 1) by Daisuke Igarashi, translated by JN Productions

22 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Middle Grade Readers, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Ruka, a star handball player, gets a little too rough and ends up kicked off the team. Frustrated, she heads to big city Tokyo where she thinks she might find the sea, and instead meets a mysterious young boy named Umi (whose name happens to...

Amulet | Book One: The Stonekeeper and Book Two: The Stonekeeper’s Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

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

Two years after her father is killed in a car accident, Emily moves with her mother and younger brother Navin to a faraway family home, once owned by her great-grandfather who disappeared decades ago. On the top floor of the neglected house, she finds a...

Paris Pan Takes the Dare by Cynthea Liu

09 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

At 12, Paris Pan is the youngest of three in the peripatetic Pan family. Their latest address has them domiciled in teeny-tiny small town Sugar Lake, Oklahoma, where Paris has to start all over again at a new school. Unlike her older sister who has...

The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha

04 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American

In her reader's guide at book's end, Naseem Rakha explains how in 1996 she was assigned to cover Oregon's first excecution in over three decades. Once finished with the assignment, she continued to ask questions and "by far the most compelling [stories] were those told...

A Gift by Yong Chen

02 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction

Every Chinese New Year, Amy’s mother feels particularly homesick for her family living on the other side of the world in China. This year, a package arrives with a letter that tells the story of a remarkable stone found in Uncle Zhong’s fields, that was...

Mijeong by Byun Byung-Jun, translated by Joe Johnson

01 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Korean, Short Stories, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Seven stories capture the disconnected restless wanderings of modern urban youth. The eponymous opening story is a moody reflection on the loneliness of every day life personified by a stranger named Mijeong [the back cover notes, "In Chinese, 'Mijeong' means 'pure beauty,'" which is true, but...

The Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda

25 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, British Asian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Pakistani, South Asian, Young Adult Readers

Being a so-called 'normal' teenager for hapa Pakistani Londoner Bilqis SanGreal has never been an option. With an overbearing father who happens to be the Templar Master – even if many believe he murdered his beloved wife – Billi's destiny as the newest, youngest Knight is...

A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman

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

Two seemingly disparate stories open this engrossing debut novel. Latha, who enjoys the smaller luxuries of life – bathing with a stolen bar of pink Lux soap – is both servant and best friend to Thara, the only child of the Vithanages with whom the young...

Hook by Ed Young

18 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction

The Caldecott Medalist Ed Young does it again ...

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder

13 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

The eponymous Housekeeper's birthdate is February 20, or written out, 220. The said Professor wears a prize watch inscribed with "President's Prize No. 284." Together, 220 and 284 are amicable numbers. And with that coincidence, the Housekeeper and the Professor begin their amicable relationship ...

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