Grade Level: Elementary 3–5
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Rick Kotani’s 400 Million Dollar Summer
Rick is a baseball-obsessed twelve-year-old who moves to Oregon to help take care of his grandfather, but ends up learning unexpected truths about his family and how they mysteriously parallel the Japanese folktale of the fisherman Urashima Taro.
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Incredible: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World
Incredible introduces some of the vast number of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have made significant and lasting change in the world, including groundbreaking journalist Connie Chung, first Asian American Congressman Dalip Singh Saund, and renowned singer/activist Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole.
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Wat Takes His Shot: The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
Wat was a college student when the US government forced more than 122,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast into incarceration camps during WWII. He overcame racism and segregation to join his college’s basketball team, but he was treated as an outsider because he was Japanese American. After helping Utah University’s basketball team win…
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A Kids Book About Diversity
Diversity is what makes the world such a beautiful and interesting place. Help kids understand what diversity is and how to actively embrace it in every aspect of their lives. Designed to initiate positive conversations around inclusivity and diversity, it’s the ideal starting point for young minds to learn about togetherness and respect for everyone…
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Passage of the Sun: Songkran
Every year, on April 13th, the people of Thailand bring out the water hoses. Songkran is all about making a fresh start with a splash. Songkran comes from the Sanskrit language meaning “passage of the sun” marks the beginning of the traditional Thai New Year.
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Little Reader Spring Book Club Guide
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Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail
From politics to the US Navy, from laboratories to the boardroom, from the Olympics to authors, and beyond these girls and women leaders shine. The empowering profiles are created by Geisel Honor–winning and #1 New York Times bestselling artist Niña Mata.
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Stories of the Spirit of Justice
Jemar Tisby collects the true, impactful stories of figures from across history—from the well-known to those often forgotten—who resisted racism and created a legacy of hope and perseverance.
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Fire Escape: How Animals and Plants Survive Wildfires
This nonfiction book by an award-winning author/illustrator team focuses on unique angles to a current topic, including injury rehabilitation efforts, species that use wildfires to their advantage, how to help area repopulation, and the animals that help to prevent/fight wildfires.
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In the Tunnel
Lee’s vivid writing about the Korean war discusses war and survival as well as an intimate look at everyday life for Koreans caught up in geo-political forces over which they have no control. Few books for young readers grapple with the Korean War from this perspective. The American involvement in the conflict is portrayed from…
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Gigi Shin Is Not a Nerd
When Gigi learns about an elite art camp on the east coast, she’s determined to go. But she knows her parents won’t let her, much less pay for it. After overhearing her little brother Tommy complain about how hard math is and how his teacher goes too fast for him, Gigi has a brilliant idea:…
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New Year (Traditions & Celebrations)
People all over the world celebrate the New Year. Learn about the many ways people around the world count down the final moments of the old year, and how they celebrate the birth of a brand-new year.