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Asian-American Fiction for Grades 3-7
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Children of the River Linda Crews Sundara flees her homeland with her aunt and uncle to settle in Oregon and finds it difficult to maintain Cambodian social customs in high school. (Cambodian American) |
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The trouble begins Linda Himelblau After a ten-year separation, fifth-grader Du is reunited with his parents in a strange new country where his classmates call him “Doo-doo” and everything he does seems to get him into trouble. (Vietnamese American) |
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Kira-kira Cynthia Kadohata Growing up poor and different in the South is hard enough, but it’s even harder when your sister gets cancer. (Japanese American) |
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F is for fabuloso Marie G. Lee Devastated when she receives an F on her math test, Jin-Ha makes matters worse by lying about it to her mother. (Korean American) |
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The year of the dog Grace Lin In the Year of the Dog, Pacy discovers her hidden talents and a new friend whose family is also from Taiwan. (Taiwanese American) |
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Ruby Lu, brave and true Lenore Look Almost-eight-year-old Ruby Lu goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive! (Chinese American) |
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The gold-threaded dress Carolyn Marsden Oy can only join the club if she lets popular Liliandra wear her precious, traditional silk dress. (Thai American) |
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A step from heaven An Na Young Ju and her family immigrate to California, where she thrives despite her abusive father. (Korean American) |
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Yang the youngest and his terrible ear Lensey Namioka Yingtao must perform in a recital with his talented siblings even though he plays the violin terribly and would much rather be playing baseball. (Chinese American) |
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Project Mulberry Linda Sue Park Julia Song thinks doing a silkworm project for an after-school club project is “too Korean,” but her good friend Patrick really likes the idea. (Korean American) |
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The Sunita experiment Mitali Perkins When her grandparents visit from India, Sunita can no longer invite boys over and feels caught between two cultures. (Indian American) |
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Under the blood-red sun Graham Salisbury Thirteen-year-old Tomi Nakaja’s life in Hawaii changes dramatically when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Fortunately Tomi’s baseball buddies remain his loyal friends. (Japanese American) |
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Ninjas, piranhas, and Galileo Greg Leitich Smith Shohei’s adoptive parents have decided to help him “discover” his Japanese ethnicity, but he’s got more on his hands with his seventh-grade friends and the science fair. (Japanese American) |
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Finding my hat John Son Like the hat he lost as a toddler to a strong gust of wind, Jin-Han has been blown around quite a bit over the years, moving from one town to another with his struggling family. (Korean American) |
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Aruna's journeys Jyotsna Sreenivasan Aruna wants to go to camp with her friend but her parents drag her to India for the whole summer. (Indian American) |
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Journey to Topaz Yoshiko Uchida Yuki and her family are forced to leave their home in Berkeley to live in a “relocation” camp in desolate Topaz, Utah during World War II. (Japanese American) |
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American born Chinese Gene Luen Yang Jin Wang’s life as one of two Chinese kids at school is woven together with the Monkey King’s adventures in this graphic novel. (Chinese American) |
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Millicent Min, girl genius Lisa Yee Eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy Stanford Wong, deal with her grandmother’s departure, and make friends over the course of one summer. (Chinese American) |
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Tales from Gold Mountain: stories of the Chinese in the New World Paul Yee Eight stories of Chinese immigrants from the 1800s and early 1900s tell of romance, death, hard work and family struggles. (Chinese American) |
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Dragonwings Laurence Yep In the early 20th century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. (Chinese American) |
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Later, Gator Laurence Yep When he buys his younger brother an alligator for his birthday, Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more. (Chinese American) |