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Malala: A Brave Girl from Pakistan | Iqbal: A Brave Boy from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter

29 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Pakistani, South Asian

Earlier this month, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai made world history by becoming the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She shares the award for 2014 with India's Kailash Satyarthi: the pair were cited "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the...

Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Jamel Akib

21 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Bangladeshi, Biography, British Asian, Children/Picture Books, Korean American, Nonfiction

Even as a child, Muhammad Yunus recognized inequity: a story of an 8-year-old Yunus giving his meal to a hungry woman and her daughter opens multi-media author/screenwriter/television producer Paula Yoo’s latest picture book. Into this inspiring biography of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning contemporary hero, Yoo also manages to weave...

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

26 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

I'm too much of a Luddite to know much about online gaming and avatars and such, but even a techno-backwards oldster like me can appreciate this feisty, original celebration of girl power. [Thankfully, the introduction offers just the right overview you'll need to understand enough.]...

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang

13 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction

Leslie T. Chang’s bio notes her gratitude to her immigrant parents for "forc[ing] her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school" while growing up outside New York City. That multilingual skill clearly gave her privileged access during the decade she spent as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, while that lofty journalist...

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

03 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Get ready: E. Lockhart's latest is apparently the young adult read of the summer. That John Green cover endorsement alone should sell endless copies. So when everyone is chattering about what happened, you're going to want to join in. An aging, wealthy, widowed patriarch spends his summers on a private...

Legend Trilogy: Legend, Prodigy, and Champion by Marie Lu

13 May, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

While production doesn't seem to have started just yet, news that Marie Lu's bestselling dystopic trilogy is coming to a theater near you keeps resurfacing since CBS Films bought rights to Legend in 2011. That Lu has a much-hyped new series, The Young Elites, hitting shelves this fall, will surely add pressure to...

Crazy Rich Asians [Crazy Rich Asians 1] by Kevin Kwan

29 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Singaporean, Singaporean American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

You might consider duct-taping your jaw shut because Manhattan-based Singaporean author Kevin Kwan insists on the veracity of the excesses in his outrageous, hilarious, train-wreck tragic debut novel: "So many aspects of and stories in the book I actually had to tone down!" he told...

With or Without You by Domenica Ruta

20 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction

Ah, well ...

Fagin the Jew by Will Eisner, foreword by Brian Michael Bendis, afterword by Jeet Heer

14 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, European, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Jewish, Young Adult Readers

"I am Fagin the Jew of Oliver Twist," begins the 'father of the graphic novel'-Will Eisner's 21st-century literary reclamation of the 19th-century classic. "This is my story, one that has remained untold and overlooked in the book by Charles Dickens," a tattered old man insists....

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

27 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pakistani, Young Adult Readers

"'Who is Malala?'" the gunman demanded on that fateful day, October 9, 2012, before he shot three bullets into a bus carrying teenage girls to school. Unable to answer then, Malala answers now in her new memoir for all the world to read: "I am...

Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids by Deborah Ellis, foreword by Loriene Roy

28 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Deborah Ellis has a doubly powerful schtick: first, her nonfiction titles give underrepresented children a highly visible podium for their very own words (Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children, Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees, Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through...

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books: The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven, The Rose of Fire by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, translated by Lucia Graves

24 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Translation

Well, crud. In spite of making a list and checking it twice, thrice, and more, I read these in about as 'wrong' order as I possibly could. But before I offer two preventative options, some quick background: the full Cemetery of Forgotten Books by internationally bestselling...

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

20 Nov, by SIBookDragon 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...

The Red Thread by Ann Hood

07 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Chinese, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific

Although I can't recommend this book, I sure would like to find some readers who might want to discuss it. As it's apparently a "national bestseller" – so touts the cover of the paperback edition – perhaps a few of you who have already read it might...

The Case of the Love Commandos: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin Hall

29 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Indian, South Asian

Mysteries don't get any more substantially delicious than this: Vish Puri voiced by Sam Dastor as written by Tarquin Hall, with just the right balance of page-turning entertainment and sociopolitical insight. Before you partake, however, you should know that this is #4 in a series;...

The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey

24 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian, Indian African, South Asian, South Asian American

After 10 installments of her award-winning Rei Shimura mysteries, DC-area-based Sujata Massey goes historical with her latest Dictionary, published this summer after six years in the making. Dictionary marks the debut of a new series Massey intends, The Daughters of Bengal, each set in India. Given a choice...

Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng

23 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction

Let's start with this fascinating article: "The One Thing White Writers Get Away With, But Authors of Color Don't" by PolicyMic’s Gracie Jin – go ahead, take a few minutes to read it. You'll see from that giant close-up photo that author Bill Cheng is indeed of...

A Handbook to Luck by Cristina García

07 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Iranian, Latin American, Latina/o/x

Tell me if you've heard this one before: a Cuban, an El Salvadorean, and an Iranian land on the page and spend decades trying to find their place in the world. Yes? Then, you must have read Cristina García’s A Handbook to Luck. No? Then read...

Black Flower by Young-ha Kim, translated by Charles La Shure

25 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Korean, Latin American, Translation

Earlier this year, I received an email from a Chinese Canadian author, May Q. Wong, inquiring about "a shipload of Koreans who sailed to Mexico to find a better life." Clueless, I forwarded her request to a few of my scholar friends and colleagues ...

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

23 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Cambodian, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Southeast Asian

Allow me to begin with an intriguing tidbit and a cringe-inducing warning ...

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