Crews, Linda.
Children of the River
(Cambodian American)

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.

Himelblau, Linda.
The Trouble Begins
(Vietnamese American)

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.

Kadohata, Cynthia.
Kira-Kira
(Japanese American)

Growing up poor and different in the South is hard enough, but it’s even harder when your sister gets cancer.

Lee, Marie G.
F is for Fabuloso
(Korean American)

Devastated when she receives an F on her math test, Jin-Ha makes matters worse by lying about it to her mother.

Lin, Grace.
The Year of the Dog
(Taiwanese American)

In the Year of the Dog, Pacy discovers her hidden talents and a new friend whose family is also from Taiwan.

Look, Lenore.
Ruby Lu, Brave and True
(Chinese American)

Almost-eight-year-old Ruby Lu goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive!

Marsden, Carolyn.
The Gold-Threaded Dress
(Thai American)

Oy can only join the club if she lets popular Liliandra wear her precious, traditional silk dress.

Na, An.
A Step from Heaven
(Korean American)

Young Ju and her family immigrate to California, where she thrives despite her abusive father.

Namioka, Lensey.
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
(Chinese American)

Yingtao must perform in a recital with his talented siblings even though he plays the violin terribly and would much rather be playing baseball.

Park, Linda Sue.
Project Mulberry
(Korean American)

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.

Perkins, Mitali.
The Sunita Experiment
(Indian American)

When her grandparents visit from India, Sunita can no longer invite boys over and feels caught between two cultures.

Salisbury, Graham.
Under the Blood Red Sun
(Japanese American)

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.

Smith, Greg Leitich.
Ninjas, Piranhas, and Galileo
(Japanese American)

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.

Son, John.
Finding My Hat
(Korean American)

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.

Sreenivasan, Jyotsna.
Aruna’s Journeys
(Indian American)

Aruna wants to go to camp with her friend but her parents drag her to India for the whole summer.

Uchida, Yoshiko.
Journey to Topaz
(Japanese American)

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.

Yang, Gene Luen.
American Born Chinese
(Chinese American)

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.

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.

Yee, Paul.
Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World
(Chinese American)

Eight stories of Chinese immigrants from the 1800s and early 1900s tell of romance, death, hard work and family struggles.

Yep, Laurence.
Later, Gator
(Chinese American)

When he buys his younger brother an alligator for his birthday, Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more.