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Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam, foreword by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

21 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Tibetan

Last night, six of my book hens (my mother likes to refer to my book club as "the chicken coop," which has an amusing ring to it in Korean: "kkoh-kkoh-jang") got together for a lively discussion of  Canyon Sam's debut, Sky Train. Even though I...

Amazing Faces with poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Chris Soentpiet

19 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonethnic-specific, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry

In a word – and to quote from the title – this book is amazing. Filled with poems chosen by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins that celebrate the wonders of our diversity, this gorgeous book is populated by the vibrant immediacy of Chris Soentpiet's stunning canvases...

Resistance: Book 1 by Carla Jablonski, illustrated by Leland Purvis, color by Hilary Sycamore

18 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

Here's something else that APAs and Jewish Americans have in common: we share the same heritage month! Yup, as of April 2006, May is not only our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, but May is also Jewish American Heritage Month! Various stereotypes have long linked...

The Sandwich Swap by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah with Kelly DiPucchio, illustrated by Tricia Tusa

15 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Jordanian, Middle Eastern

When our daughter entered kindergarten oh those many years ago (she's a teenager already!), she almost immediately started to get hassled about her lunches ...

The Tale of Despereaux: being the story of a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering

10 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Sometimes it takes me years to read certain books. Oftentimes, fear is involved. Sometimes when I like a book so very much, I'm afraid the next book by that author just might disappoint. So I do the denial thing and move said title deeper down...

Blood Hina: A Mas Arai Mystery by Naomi Hirahara

06 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American

Every time I close a Mas Arai mystery (this is my third – I know, I need to catch up), and in spite of the sometimes gruesome body count, I have to admit I miss the crotchety old man with his Japanese phrases mixed in...

Let Me Help! | ¡Quiero Ayudar! by Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by Angela Domínguez

05 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Latina/o/x

Happy Cinco de Mayo from Perico and his human family! While everyone busily prepares for the big picnic and festivities on the rented barge that will float down the San Antonio River, Perico the parrot looks for ways he can help, too. But Grandmother and Aunt...

Kingyo Used Books (vol. 1) by Seimu Yoshizaki, translated by Adrienne Weber

03 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Having discovered manga late in life, I seem to be making up for lost time ...

Foiled by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Mike Cavallaro

21 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Warning: I can't find any promises of a volume 2 (or 3, 4, or more!) anywhere in, on, or around this book. Nothing in the publicist's note, either! Uh-oh ...

Smile by Raina Telgemeier, with color by Stephanie Yue

18 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

For anyone and everyone who has or knows a middle-grader with braces (or about to get braces), this is the book of choice to share. "I've been telling people about what happened to my teeth ever since I knocked them out in sixth grade," writes...

The Adventures of Jack Lime by James Leck

17 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Jack Lime is a self-described "detective, a private investigator, a gumshoe." He's also a new student at Iona High School, who landed mid-9th grade in the ultra-planned, exclusive community from the City of Angels to live with his grandmother after the tragic death of his...

Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories by Audrey Penn, illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson

16 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

The latest in what has become practically a franchise – Audrey Penn's Kissing Hand series – deals with an extremely difficult subject ...

Pearl of China by Anchee Min [in Library Journal]

15 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Min opens her latest with guilty sobs recalling her "brainwashed" teenaged self in 1970s China, when she was forced to denounce Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck to Madame Mao. That guilt clearly drove Min (Red Azalea) to write this "based on the...

The Shepherd’s Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter

14 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Canadian, Fiction, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Middle Grade Readers, Palestinian, Young Adult Readers

Last week, this article landed in my inbox: "Jewish Group Boycotts Canadian Kids' Book."  The comments are also well worth reading. Then a friend sent me another related article which announced, "Controversial Mideast book stays in Toronto schools." The running quote box on the left side...

Arab in America by Toufic El Rassi

13 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Arab American, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

If the observations, memories, and pop culture references here weren't so obviously recognizable in our post-9/11 western world, you might have read this graphic memoir as a hack comedy. The black-and-white panels initially seem almost unfinished, as if still in rough-draft mode. The contents might...

Raven Summer by David Almond

09 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

David Almond has been repeatedly popping up in my inbox recently. Not him personally (don't I wish, as he is definitely one of my very favorite writers for young adult titles), but his mega-award-winning name is haunting my emails...

Snakes Can’t Run: A Mystery by Ed Lin

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction

Timing is everything, right? Last weekend, I had our teenage daughter and a friend of hers wandering NYC, and we happened to do the fabulous, downloadable Soundwalk/Chinatown walking tour narrated by Chinatown native Jami Gong – all three of us were attached to one iPod...

It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman by Ella Mae Johnson with Patricia Mulcahy [in Christian Science Monitor]

02 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

“Some of the things in this book happened a hundred years ago...

Secret Asian Man: The Daily Days by Tak Toyoshima

31 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Young Adult Readers

Art director for an alternative city paper by day, comics artist whenever he has the time, SAM (Secret Asian Man, yes!) – not so unlike his own creator Tak Toyoshima – fights stereotypes when he can, makes biting commentaries when frustrated, and generally tries to...

Tell Us We’re Home by Marina Budhos

30 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in European, Fiction, Indian American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

In a tony New Jersey suburb, artistic Jaya, outspoken Lola, and shy Maria find an instant bond with each other, recognizing their outsider experiences of being the daughters of immigrant mothers who work as housekeepers and nannies for the wealthy families of their eighth-grade classmates. Jaya...

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