Bhangra Babes by Narinder Dhami [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in British, British Asian, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers
The third installment in the entertaining lives of Amber, Jazz, and Geena Dhillon, three fabulous sisters who befriend a new girl in school – who isn’t exactly a poster child for niceness – even as the...
Daniel Dog becomes best friends almost instantly with human neighbor Lin. He does his very best to protect her, although sometimes that amounts to just a few premature barks. But his diligence pays off and Daniel...
Spunky Ruby Lu of 20th Avenue South, Seattle, who made her debut in Brave and True (newly available in paperback), now has two books bearing her name, and both are wonderfully entertaining tales of just plain...
So much for the overachieving model minority myth: Meet Stanford Wong, basketball star and the only 7th-grader on the middle-school A-Team – but only if he can get past 6th-grade...
The second in this exciting new series about five young brother monks who are the only survivors when an errant sixth brother destroys the temple which they all once called home. Malao,...
The third adventure in the entertaining 
The inaugural title of an entertaining new series introduces five 17th-century Chinese young monks, each with special powers, who must save their world from destruction by one of their fellow brethren gone...
The first two installments of a new trilogy from YA master Yep. Tiger’s Apprentice opens with the untimely death of Mistress Lee, the current Guardian of the mysterious rose which holds the future hope...
Welcome to the fabulous world of the Bindi Babes, otherwise known as the dynamic Dhillon sisters, Amber, Jazz, and Geena. In the first installment of the trilogy, Bindi Babes, they manage to...
Confession time: I was ready to hate these – those names, for heaven’s sake! But how entertaining – and empowering – to have a hapa Chinese American girl, Agatha Wong, and her...
Perfect beach read: A father arrives in NYC to visit his estranged daughter and stumbles onto a murder for which his daughter is arrested as the prime suspect. Little by little, he must not...
In the latest installment in the Rei Shimura mystery series, Massey brings her hapa Japanese American heroine to Washington, DC, where she is designing a sleek fusion restaurant. Her political socialite cousin suddenly goes...
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
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Finding My Hat by John Son
The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho
With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...
The latest in the 
While she may be a bona-fide genius, 11-year-old Millicent Min, who has skipped five grades and is taking a college class for fun, learns that using just the brain does not a whole person...
The third installment in the 
One of the three newest additions to the Girls of Many Lands series [click 
Move over, Harry Potter – here’s a totally different kind of fantasy series. While this is the first available installment in English, the Japanese version has up to 89 titles! [Publisher Vertical, Inc. has...
Three titles from the We Came to America series from a new publishing house devoted to young adult books – some fabulous stuff, too! For the most part, all three...