The Year of the Horse: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac by Oliver Chin, illustrated by Jennifer Wood
31 Dec, by in Children/Picture Books, Chinese American, Fiction
Get ready to ring in the new year ...
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Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education by Elizabeth Suneby, illustrated by Suana Verelst
30 Dec, by in Afghan, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
The newest title in Canada’s Kids Can Press' vital CitizenKid series – "books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens" – is also quite possibly the best thus far. "'This is where my school once stood ...
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
29 Dec, by in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
What a year Benjamin Alire Sáenz has had: in the adult market, he made literary history last May as the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his seven-story collection, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club; his latest young adult title...
If I Stay and Where She Went by Gayle Forman
21 Dec, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
That the film version of If I Stay is currently in production is reason enough to read the book before Hollywood leaves its indelible imprint too soon. Trust me: 99.9% of the time, the book is better. The intensity and ferocity that author Gayle Forman offers with...
Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie Helm
17 Dec, by in Adult Readers, European, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction
'Sprawling' barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm's ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German Japanese American family with current branches spread throughout the rest of the world. Prompted by the death of his difficult...
Line 135 by Germano Zullo, illustrated by Albertine
15 Dec, by in Children/Picture Books, European, Fiction, Translation
Clearly this image is not doing justice to the book's spirited cover with its bright lime green train and fluorescent orange doors. To appreciate its vibrancy is reason enough to go find the real book! See that jauntily ponytailed, smiling little girl? She's definitely inviting...
The Savage Fortress [Ash Mistry Chronicles, Book 1] by Sarwat Chadda
12 Dec, by in Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
Well, I seem to be totally out of order here: so I read The City of Death (Book 2) first because I had a judging deadline, then backpedaled to catch up by sticking this Fortress (Book 1) in the ears (Bruce Mann narrates well enough, although I...
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
11 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Iranian American, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific
A few months ago when I came upon this fascinating article, "The One Thing White Writers Get Away With, But Authors of Color Don't" by PolicyMic's Gracie Jin, I started trolling around for authors venturing into unexpected 'color'-ful fictional territory. I was fascinated to find two bestselling writers...
Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura
10 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese American
Spare, lean, restrained, dare I say ...
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 by Kirby Larson
07 Dec, by in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
How’s this for new math: the first 286 pages hold about the same weight as the final 25 pages. The fictional diary expounds and entertains, revealing a 13-year-old’s West Coast experiences during World War II; the ending “Life in America in 1941” section illuminates and...
The Translator by Nina Schuyler [in Bloom]
02 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
In just her protagonist's name alone, author Nina Schuyler imbues linguistic magic in her latest novel about language, communication, understanding, and ultimately, the bonds of family. Schuyler's leading lady is Hanne Schubert, a 53-year-old woman who speaks seven languages including Japanese, German, along with her...
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
30 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Even though the Yoko Ono comment made by an angry daughter about her hapless father's extramaritally knocked-up girlfriend gets apologized for some 40 pages later – "'I called her Yoko Ono that night because she was the one who broke up the Beatles. Not because she's...
A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher
29 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Canadian, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Translation
After traveling and drawing the world – Pyongyang, Shenzhen, Burma, Jerusalem – comic master extraordinaire Guy Delisle turns inward to his own family with a tongue-in-cheek look at the challenges of being a parent trying to keep his kids safe, supported, loved ...
Mi Familia Calaca | My Skeleton Family by Cynthia Weill, illustrated by Jesús Canseco Zárate
26 Nov, by in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Nonethnic-specific, Translation
Check out this fabulous overview in today's New York Times highlighting what real American families look like these days: "Families." Be sure to scroll through all the imbedded slide shows – you know what they say about pictures and words. Inspired by all different types of family permutations, the...
One Step at a Time : A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
25 Nov, by in Biography, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
Introduced to U.S. readers by award-winning Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch in last year's Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War, Son Thi Ahn Tuyet's story continues – literally one step at a time. Now that Tuyet has a real home with her own real family – Dad, Mom, sisters Beth and...
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
23 Nov, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Small-town Maine, where Elizabeth Strout was born and raised, has been home to her four novels. In her first title since she won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her novel-in-13-stories, Olive Kitteridge, Strout returns to tiny Shirley Falls where she set her acclaimed, chilling debut, Amy and Isabelle. This time, in The Burgess...
Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen by Edward Lee
21 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Korean American, Memoir, Nonfiction
In case you haven't planned your Turkey Dinner coming up in exactly a week (who, me? menu? what's that?), here's a collection filled with irreverently toothsome suggestions. Having grown up eating kimchi with every chestnut-stuffed bird or surreally spiraled pink ham (or both), I couldn't...
Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg
20 Nov, by in Caribbean, Fiction, Haitian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction
Serafina, who lives in the outskirts of Haiti's Port-au-Prince, has never had the chance to go to school. With rarely enough to eat, her family has nothing left over to pay the school fees, much less buy the required uniform. While her father works at...
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri
19 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Iranian, Iranian American
Before she is even a teenager, Saba Hafezi reveals herself to be quite the unreliable narrator. Telling stories, however, is what will save her youthful soul ...
The Wall by William Sutcliffe
18 Nov, by in Adult Readers, British, Fiction, Middle Eastern, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers
In an unnamed conflict zone – not unlike the challenging, changing borders of Israel and Palestine – 13-year-old Joshua lives in a new settlement community, Amarias, surrounded by a guarded, barbed-wired wall. Too soon after his father's violent death, his mother desperately married Joshua's now-stepfather who considers...
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