asian american pacific islander heritage month suggested reads
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Suggested Reads
Picture Books
Juv Picture Book Bae New Clothes for New Year’s Day
Juv Picture Book Bridges Ruby’s Wish
Juv Picture Book Bridges The Umbrella Queen
Juv Picture Book Cheng Grandfather Counts
Juv Picture Book Choi The Name Jar
Juv Picture Book Chung Mixed: A Colorful Story
Juv Picture Book Compestine The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale
Juv Picture Book Fox I’m an Immigrant Too!
Juv Picture Book Fox Koala Lou
Juv Picture Book Gandhi Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story
Juv Picture Book Goldsaito The Sound of Silence
Juv Picture Book Heo The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
Juv Picture Book Ho Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Juv Picture Book Ho Hush!: A Thai Lullaby
Juv Picture Book Ho Peek!: A Thai Hide-and-Seek
Juv Picture Book Javaherbin Elephant in the Dark
Juv Picture Book Kajikawa Tsunami!
Juv Picture Book Kelkar The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh
Juv Picture Book Khan Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
Juv Picture Book Khan Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim book of Colors
Juv Fiction Khan Silly Chicken
Juv Picture Book Lam My Little Sister and Me
Juv Picture Book Lam The Paper Boat
Juv Picture Book Lazo Gilmore Cora Cooks Pancit
Juv Picture Book Le Drawn Together
Juv Picture Book Lee Silent Lotus
Juv PIcture Book Lee Waiting for Mama: A Bilingual Picture Book
Juv Picture Book Lee When Spring Comes to the DMZ
Juv Picture Book Lewis Orange Peel’s Pocket
Juv Picture Book Lin Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Juv Picture Book Lin Olvina Swims
Juv Picture Book Liu A Morning with Grandpa
Juv Picture Book Look Brush of the Gods
Juv Picture Book Look Uncle Peter’s Amazing Chinese Wedding
Juv Picture Book Loomis Ohana Means Family
Juv Picture Book Mochizuki Baseball Saved Us
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Juv Picture Book Muhammad The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
Juv Picture Book Park Bee-Bim Bop!
Juv Picture Book Patel Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth
Juv PIcture Book Phi A Different Pond
Juv Picture Book Rhee The Turtle Ship
Juv Picture Book Saeed Bilal Cooks Daal
Juv Picture Book Say Grandfather’s Journey
Juv Picture Book Say Kamishibai Man
Juv Picture Book Sehgal The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk
Juv Picture Book Sheth Monsoon Afternoon
Juv Picture Book Smith Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide
Juv Picture Book So Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop: A Tale of a Very Greedy Cat
Juv Picture Book Thompkins-Bigelow Mommy's Khimar
Juv Picture Book Thong Red is a Dragon
Juv Picture Book Uegaki Ojiichan’s Gift
Juv Picture Book Wang Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando
Juv Picture Book Weston Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms
Juv Picture Book Williams Four Feet, Two Sandals
Juv Picture Book Young I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket
Juv Picture Book Yousafzai Malala’s Magic Pencil
Juv Picture Book Zhang Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao
Fiction
Juv Fiction Ali Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices
Juv Fiction Brown While I Was Away
Juv Fiction Chadda City of the Plague God
Juv Fiction Cheng The Year of the Fortune Cookie
Juv Fiction Choi The Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Juv Fiction Chokshi Aru Shah and the End of Time
Juv Fiction Compestine A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously
Frightening Tales
Juv Fiction Compestine Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
Juv Fiction Cruz Everlasting Nora
Juv Fiction DasGupta The Serpent's Secret
Juv Fiction Ellis The Breadwinner
Juv Fiction Fraillon The Bone Sparrow
Juv Fiction Gourlay Bone Talk
Juv Fiction Hashimi The Sky at our Feet
Juv Fiction Hiranandam The Night Diary
Juv Fiction Kadarusman Girl of the Southern Sea
Juv Fiction Kadohata A Place to Belong
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Juv Fiction Kadohata The Thing About Luck
Juv Fiction Kelkar Ahimsa
Juv Fiction Kelly We Dream of Space
Juv Fiction Khan Amina’s voice
Juv Fiction Kim Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Juv Fiction Krishnaswami The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
Juv Fiction Lai Inside out & back again
Juv Fiction Lai Listen, Slowly
Juv Fiction Lee Brother’s keeper
Juv Fiction Lin Before the Sword
Juv Fiction Look Alvin Ho: allergic to girls, school, and other scary things
Juv Fiction Look Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
Juv Fiction Master A Beautiful Lie
Juv Fiction Nagai Under the Broken Sky
Juv Fiction Narsimhan Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen
Toilets
Juv Fiction Oh Spirit Hunters
Juv Fiction Park Prairie Lotus
Juv Fiction Park A Single Shard
Juv Fiction Perera Guantanamo Boy
Juv Fiction Perkins Tiger Boy
Juv Fiction Respicio Any Day with You
Juv Fiction Saeed Amal Unbound
Juv Fiction Senzai Saving Kabul Corner
Juv Fiction Senzai Shooting Kabul
Juv Fiction Soontornvat A Wish in the Dark
Juv Fiction Uchida Samurai of Gold Hill
Juv Fiction Venkatraman The Bridge Home
Juv Fiction Villanueva My Fate According to the Butterfly
Juv Fiction Weeks Save Me a Seat
Juv Fiction Watkins My Brother, My Sister, and I
Juv Fiction Wenxuan Bronze and Sunflower
Juv Fiction Yang Front Desk
Juv Fiction Yee Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Juv Fiction Yumoto The Friends
Juv Fiction Zhang The Emperor’s Riddle
Juv Fiction Zhao The Dragon Warrior
Juv Fiction Zhang The Memory of Forgotten Things
Juv Newbery Keller When You Trap a Tiger
Juv Newbery Kelly Hello, Universe
Juv Newbery Mukerji Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
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Juv Paperback Lai Pie in the Sky
Juv Paperback Tan Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book is a Classic
Juv Science Fiction Lee Dragon Pearl
eBooks
Alkaf, Hanna The Girl and the Ghost
Bilan, Jasbinder Asha and the Spirit Bird
Khalil, Aya The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
Kim, Pattie I’m Ok
Yang, Kao Kalia The Most Beautiful Thing
Comics
Juv Comics Amulet Amulet Series
Juv Comics Jun My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
Juv Comics NewsPrint NewsPrints
Juv Comics Nguyen Pilu of the Woods
Juv Comics Wang Stargazing
Non-Fiction and Biographies
Juv 389.2 Australia Murphy Birrarung Wilam: A Story from Aboriginal Australia
Juv 398.2 Australia Oodgeroo Dreamtime: Aborginal Stories
Juv Reader 796.52 Shiraishi How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing
Champion
Juv Biog Clark Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the
Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist
Juv Biog Gee Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee
Juv Biog Kahanamoku Surfer of the Century
Juv Biog Lee The Boy Who Became a Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story
Juv Biog Lee Sixeteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story
Juv Biog Lin Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
Juv Biog Onizuka Ellison Onizuka
Juv Biog Wong Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Juv Biog Wu The Queen of Physics: Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung
Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom