Grade Level: High School

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  Deep Dive: Lunar New Year

  Families around the world in countries such as China, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and more celebrate Lunar New Year with joy and tradition. To welcome good fortune, they clean their homes, share festive meals, hang lanterns, and more. This deep dive will explain more about the holiday and its many traditions.

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  Himawari House

  In this graphic novel, students from differrent countries travel to Japan to attend a Japanese Cram school. They become friends while living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo. The text is written in English, Japanese, and Korean. Harmony’s mother is from Japan, and now lives in the US. Harmony attended college in So. Korea…

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  What’s Eating Jackie Oh?

  Jackie is tired of pleasing her Korean American parents with academic achievements because she secretly wants to become a chef. She wins a spot on a competitive cooking show. Will her parents understand her dreams? Patricia Park’s parents immigrated from Korea to the US.

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  Cultural Celebrations Calendar 2025-2026

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  Deep Dive: Tanabata Star Festival

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  Fitting Indian

  This highschool graphic novel shines a light on how harmful the stigma of mental illness is and how lifesaving a community that is honest about mental health can be. All Nitasha’s parents want is for her to be the perfect Indian daughter. Everything she does seems to disappoint them, especially her mom. They just don’t…

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  Everything We Never Had

  Four generations of boys in a Filipino-American family deal with prejudice, and family issues. Francisco, a migrant farm worker, organizes the farm workers in his area. Emil refuses to follow in the footsteps of his labor organizer father, Francisco, and is determined to make it on his own. Chris is determined to prove that his…

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  Tall Water

  Nimmi wants to travel to Sri Lanka to confront the mother who refused to leave the island during a war. Her father is going back for the first time as a reporter on assignment, but he refuses to take her, because Sri Lanka is too dangerous. Nimmi buys her own ticket for her father’s flight.…

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  Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery

  Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part of two different worlds but never feeling as though you belong to either. Christine decides to…

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  Young Adult Spring Book Club Guide

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  A Greater Goal: The Epic Battle for Equal Pay in Women’s Soccer-and Beyond

  A Greater Goal discusses how members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team fought to receive fair treatment and equal pay despite the intense pushback they received from the U.S. Soccer organization. Included in this insightful look at women and soccer are player profiles and vignettes framed from team member perspectives to illustrate the genesis…

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  The Blackwoods

  Brandy Colbert writes about gender, Blackness, and aspiration, and what the Hollywood machine has historically given and taken from performers of color.