Medium: Book

Give Me a Sign

Jenny Han meets CODA in this big-hearted YA debut about first love and Deaf pride at a summer camp. Lilah is stuck in the middle. At least, that’s what having a hearing loss seems like sometimes—when you don’t feel “deaf enough” to identify as Deaf or hearing enough to meet the world’s expectations. But this…
Grandpa Across the Ocean

Everything seems different in South Korea, but the grandpa and his grandson learn to “enjoy walks in town, and trips to the beach. ‘Now, where Grandpas lives, smells familiar. sounds familiar. And feels like home.’”
A Child’s Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander History: The Heroes, the Stories, and the Cultures that Helped to Build America

This book reveals the stories of AAPI leaders in US history.
Ruby Lost and Found

Ruby gets in major trouble at school, so her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a senior center with her grandmother. Nai-Nai. But Nai-Nai, her friends, and Liam, a boy from her school surprise Ruby as they all work to help save an historic Chinatown bakery.
Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel

Feng-Li can’t wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed vacation, her parents deliver shocking news: They are returning to Taiwan and leaving Feng-Li and her older siblings in California on their own.
Dragonfruit

In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person’s greatest sorrow. Every wish demands a price in this Pacific Islander tale.
Throwback

Sam travels back in time to the 1990s where she must figure out how to fix things with her Korean American mother. “Throwback asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience.”
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape

Known for her innovative wire sculptures; Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa was a teenager in Southern California when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father was incarcerated, and the rest of her family were sent to a detention center in California, and later to an internment camp in Arkansas. A few years later she was accepted…
Home Is Not a Country

From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. Nima wishes she were…
The Turtle of Michigan

The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and adjusts to a new life and a new school…
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum

Acclaimed author and illustrator, Jessie Hartland, beautifully presents this informative and fascinating history of the Hatshepsut sphinx: from its carving in ancient Egypt to its arrival in the hallowed halls of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is essential reading for junior Egyptologists!
The Night Before Eid: A Muslim Family Story

A CCBC Children’s Choice Best Book of the Year! Celebrate the end of Ramadan with this luminous Muslim family story about faith, history, and delicious foods. On the night before Eid, it’s finally time to make special sweet treats: Teita’s famous ka’ak. Zain eagerly unpacks the ingredients from his grandmother’s bulky suitcase: ghee from Khalo…