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A Trans* and Gender Nonconforming Reading List for All Ages [in The Booklist Reader]

28 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Lists, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

News about the transgender community – including banned books, bathroom laws, hockey, wrestlers, models, parades, Jackie and Juliet Evancho, and, most tragically, a horrifying murder caught on cellphone video – have all made recent headlines. Books can be helpful, entertaining, illuminating portals into the trans*/gender nonconforming (GNC)...

Secret Coders: Paths & Portals (Volume 2) by Gene Luen Yang & Mike Holmes

10 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific

Seventh graders Hopper, Eni, and Josh have managed to "get with the program" since Volume 1, but they still haven't learned how not to get stuck in places they shouldn't be. Volume 2 opens with a test of their burgeoning skills, which – failed attempts notwithstanding...

The Problem with Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout [in School Library Journal]

10 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Having survived too many violently nightmarish years in foster care, Mallory knows how lucky she is to finally have two unconditionally loving parents. After years of intensive therapy, she's ready to try something most teens expect to experience: her senior year of high school. Mallory's...

Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [in School Library Journal]

05 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

River Dean, 17, is not a bad kid: he's got warm relationships with his family (except his runaway dad), does well at school, and has good friends. But when Penny, the love of his life, dumps him, River starts making awful decisions, starting with stumbling...

How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball [in Library Journal]

20 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Morbid fascination will keep listeners riveted to Jesse Ball’s (A Cure for Suicide) shocking new novel as teenager Lucia Stanton chronicles –with unnerving detachment – her troubled life through a collage of blunt paragraphs, random lists, outrageous predictions, and a "pamphlet" bearing the book's...

Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten [in School Library Journal]

12 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Kate has always been a liar – out of necessity rather than malice. She's smart and savvy and knows how to be a good friend. She's also the best scholarship student Manhattan's tony Waverly School has ever had. Olivia, by contrast, has grown up with every...

The Bombs that Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan [in Shelf Awareness]

09 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, European, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Some time, somewhere, Little Town and Old Country are separated by borders and bombs. If Little Town is said to be filthy, broke, and run by ragtag criminals, Old Country is conformist, rich, and militaristic. Almost 15, cautious Little Towner Charlie Law stays relatively safe...

Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts by Susan Cain with Gregory Mone and Erica Moroz [in School Library Journal]

08 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Beyoncé, J.K. Rowling, and Albert Einstein are examples of introverts who harnessed their "quiet power" to become iconic successes. Here Susan Cain offers an entertaining, illuminating adaptation of her adult bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, to help younger readers...

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings [in School Library Journal]

07 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

As today’s most prominent transgender teen, Jennings stepped into the national spotlight in 2007 at the age of 6 in a televised interview with Barbara Walters. In the almost-decade since, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) – psychology/psychiatry’s bible for identifying mental disorders...

Making Friends with Billy Wong by Augusta Scattergood [in Shelf Awareness]

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Chinese American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

When 11-year-old Azalea Morgan and her mother arrive in Paris Junction, Arkansas, in August 1952, her mother barely lasts a few minutes in her gossipy, small-town childhood home before she turns the car around, leaving her daughter behind to help her injured grandmother with her...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes’ Secret Coders

02 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin [in School Library Journal]

14 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW "The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?" Keep wondering: Riley Cavanaugh isn't answering. Riley is gender-fluid, information only Riley's psychiatrist is privy to, while Riley's conservative congressman father and teacher mother...

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez [in School Library Journal]

12 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW The 1937 school explosion in New London, TX, remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history. With that real-life tragedy as a starting point, Ashley Hope Pérez adds greater volatility with race, class, and family dysfunction, by introducing a love story between two teens from...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan’s Save Me a Seat

01 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, South Asian, South Asian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2016

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

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

Six days before eighth grade starts, Lily and Dunkin meet for the first time. Lily is still known mostly as Timothy, the boy name he was given at birth – but he's practicing being his true self: a girl named Lily. Dressed in her mother's dress and sandals,...

The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson [in Shelf Awareness]

03 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

While his 8-year-old classmates wrote about wanting to be an actress, prime minister or even Harry Potter, David Piper had a six-word wish for his future: "I want to be a girl." At 14, David's wish has only become more fervent, as his traitorous body...

Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan [in Shelf Awareness]

20 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Award-winning writer Sarah Weeks (Pie; So B. It) and India-born debut author Gita Varadarajan present a poignant, comical cultural exchange in the alternating voices of two fifth-grade boys. Joe Sylvester has been living in the same New Jersey town, going to the same school and hanging...

I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly, illustrated by JM Ken Niimura

25 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Barbara Thorson is most definitely not your average fifth-grader. She refuses to buy the "motivational speaking" going on in the front of the classroom on career day, quipping to the less-than-esteemed guest, "I already have a 'career,' thank you." Indeed, Barbara's calling is so much greater:...

The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness by Kyung-sook Shin, translated by Ha-yun Jung [in Library Journal]

15 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW Credited with revitalizing Korea’s publishing industry, Shin’s 2011 Please Look After Mom (the author’s debut in English) made this international powerhouse the first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize. Her latest, arriving stateside 20 years after its Korean publication, is part memoir,...

I’m New Here by Anne Sibley O’Brien

07 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in African, Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Latina/o/x

Meet Maria, Jin, and Fatimah. They're new – not only to their classroom, but to the language, culture, and country that is our United States. Maria, who left behind an unnamed Spanish-speaking nation, longs for the constant conversations with her friends when their "voices flowed like water and flew...

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