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Asian & Pacific Islander Creators - Fiction and Graphic Novels
Asian & Pacific Islander Creators
     Fiction and Graphic Novels

                                                 Chang, Victoria. Love, Love. Frances Chin,
                Fiction                          a 10-year old Chinese-American girl,
                                                 struggles with bullies and loneliness at
                                                 school, while also trying to help her sick
Alkaf, Hanna. The Girl and the Ghost. A          older sister and busy parents.
Malaysian tale in which a lonely girl inherits
ghostly demon from her grandmother.              Chapman, Elsie. All the Ways Home. After
                                                 his mother's death, Kaede develops some
Aung Thin, Michelle. Crossing the Farak          behavior problems and is sent to Japan to
River. When Rohingya siblings Hasina and         spend time with his estranged father and
Araf hear helicopters, they know there is        an older half brother.
one thing to do—run, and don't stop.
                                                 Cheng, Jack. See You in the Cosmos.
Bajaj, Varsha. Count Me In. Told from two        Eleven-year-old Alex Petroski, along with
viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris       his dog, Carl Sagan, makes big discoveries
use social media to stand up to racism           about his family on a road trip.
after an attack puts Karina's Indian
American grandfather in the hospital.            Chokshi, Roshani. Aru Shah and the End of
                                                 Time (series). Telling fibs in order to fit in
Barakiva, Michael. One Man Guy (TWEEN).          better with her wealthier peers, Aru Shah
When Alek's high-achieving Armenian-                                                               Faruqi, Saadia. A Thousand Questions.
                                                 spends her school break at the Museum of          Mimi, visiting her wealthy grandparents in
American parents send him to summer              Ancient Indian Art and Culture, where her
school, he thinks his summer is ruined. But                                                        Karachi, Pakistan, for the first time, and
                                                 decision to light a cursed lamp unwittingly       Sakina, daughter of the grandparents'
then he meets Ethan, who opens his world         releases an ancient demon.
in a series of truly unexpected ways.                                                              cook, form an unexpected friendship. Also
                                                                                                   by Saadia Faruqi: A Place at the Table.
                                                 Cruz, Marie Miranda. Everlasting Nora.
Bilan, Jasbinder. Asha and the Spirit Bird.      After surviving a fire, Nora and her mother
Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas,                                                      Flint, Shamini. Ten: A Soccer Story. In
                                                 live in a cemetery, but when her mother           1986 Malaysia, eleven-year-old soccer fan
missing her papa, who works in the city.         disappears and a loan shark steals her
When he suddenly stops sending money,                                                              Maya trains herself and pulls together a
                                                 savings, Nora finds support from her              team at her girls' school, despite soccer
Asha and her best friend cross the world's       cemetery neighbors to earn some money
highest mountains to find him, facing                                                              being a "boys' game."
                                                 and search for her mother.
hunger, exhaustion, even snow leopards.
                                                                                                   Florence, Debbi Michiko. Keep it Together,
                                                 DasGupta, Sayantani. The Serpent's Secret         Keiko Carter (series). Keiko, Audrey, and
Bowman, Akemi Dawn. Generation Misfits.          (series). Kiranmala considered herself an
An eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl                                                          Jenna have always been best friends. Keiko
                                                 ordinary sixth-grader, but then her parents       desperately wants it to stay that way, but
joins her performing arts school's J-Pop         disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon
club, where the members form an imitation                                                          now they are starting seventh grade and
                                                 shows up. Soon she is swept into another          everything seems to be changing.
band of their favorite girl group.               dimension, full of magic, winged horses,
                                                 talking birds, and cute princes.                  Glaser, Karina Yan. A Duet for Home. Two
Brown, Waka T. Dream Annie Dream. When
she lands a big role in the production of                                                          children living in a shelter whose friendship
                                                 Dilloway, Margaret. Five Things About Ava         grows over a shared love of classical music
The King and I, Japanese American seventh        Andrews. Ava bubbles with ideas and
grader Annie, belittled by her mostly white                                                        join forces to confront a new policy that
                                                 plans, but only on the inside. On the             puts homeless families in danger.
classmates, must rise above racism while         outside, everyone thinks she doesn't talk
chasing her dreams.                              or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows         Gourlay, Candy. Bone Talk. Samkad lives
                                                 is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety   deep in the Philippine jungle, and has never
Burkinshaw, Kathleen. The Last Cherry            and a heart condition. Also by Margaret
Blossom. Twelve-year-old Yuriko handles                                                            encountered anyone from before. His world
                                                 Dilloway: Momotaro Xander and the Lost            is utterly changed when he discovers the
the everyday troubles of living, in the days     Island of Monsters (series); and Summer of
leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima.                                                            brother he never knew he had and learns
                                                 a Thousand Pies.                                  of the people who are bringing war and
Cao, Wenxuan. Bronze and Sunflower.                                                                destruction to their home.
                                                 Dumas, Firoozeh. It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel.
Taken in by a poor family in a rural village     Eleven-year-old Zomorod tells her story of
after the death of her father, Sunflower                                                           Hamza, Nina. Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year. An
                                                 growing up Iranian in Southern California         Indian American boy endures a family
bonds with the family's only child, Bronze,      during the Iranian Revolution and hostage
who has not spoken since being                                                                     move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and,
                                                 crisis of the late 1970s.                         with the help of three life-changing books
traumatized by a terrible fire.
                                                                                                   he reads in school, he learns to like
                                                 Everyman, Cookie Hiponia. We Belong.              reading, and ultimately, himself.
Chadda, Sarwat. City of the Plague God.          Stella and Luna know that their mama,
Thirteen-year-old Sikander Aziz has to           Elsie, came from the Philippines when she
team up with the hero Gilgamesh in order         was a child, but not much else. They ask
to stop Nergal, the ancient god of plagues,      her to tell them her story and their mama
from wiping out Manhattan. Also by Sarwat        spins two tales—that of her youth and that
Chadda: Ash Mistry series.                       of the young life of Mayari, the mythical
                                                 daughter of a god.
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Asian & Pacific Islander Creators - Fiction and Graphic Novels
Asian & Pacific Islander Creators
     Fiction and Graphic Novels

                                                 Kelly, Erin Entrada. Those Kids From Fawn      Lee, Lori. Pahua and the Soul Stealer. After
           Fiction cont.                         Creek. The twelve kids in the seventh grade    an angry spirit steals her brother’s soul,
                                                 at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all      lonely 11-year-old Hmong girl Pahua Moua
                                                 their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason      must find her way through the spirit worlds
Hashimi, Nadia. The Sky at Our Feet. Jason       arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious      to save him—discovering her true destiny
has just learned that his Afghan mother          hair, they do not know what to think. Also     along the way.
has been living illegally in the United States   by Erin Entrada Kelly: Blackbird Fly; Hello,
since his father was killed in Afghanistan.      Universe; Lalani of the Distant Sea; We        Lee, Stacey. Outrun the Moon (TWEEN).
Although Jason was born in the US, it's          Dream of Space; and You Go First.              15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to
hard to feel American when he's terrified                                                       escape from her disadvantaged life
that his mother will be deported. Also by        Khan, Hena. Amina's Voice (series). A          through education, endures hardships
Nadia Hashimi: One Half from the East.           Pakistani- American Muslim girl struggles      when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
                                                 to stay true to her family's vibrant culture   destroys her home and school.
Hiranandani, Veera. How to Find What             while blending in at school after a
You’re Not Looking For. Ariel Goldberg           community tragedy. Also by Hena Khan:          Lee, Yoon Ha. Dragon Pearl (series). Min, a
must find her own voice and define her           Zayd Saleem: Power Forward (series).           thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows
own beliefs after her big sister elopes with                                                    away on a battle cruiser and impersonates
a young man from India following the             Kim, Graci. The Last Fallen Star (series).     a cadet in order to solve the mystery of
Supreme Court decision that strikes down         After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a      what happened to her older brother in the
laws banning interracial marriage. Also by       dangerous spell so her adopted sister,         Thousand World Space Forces.
Veera Hiranandani: The Night Diary and           Riley, will get a share of her inherited
Phoebe G. Green (Early Chapter series).          magic, Riley must undertake a near-            Lin, Grace. Before the Sword. When her
                                                 impossible quest to save Hattie from death.    sister is bitten by a poisonous spider,
Hoàng, Văn. Girl Giant and the Monkey                                                           Mulan travels with a healer to find a flower
King (series). Thom Ngho is keeping a            Kim, Jessica. Stand Up, Yumi Chung! When       from which the antidote can be made to
secret: she's super strong and it's making       eleven-year-old Yumi stumbles into a kids'     save her sister's life. Also by Grace Lin: The
it impossible for her to fit in at her new       comedy camp she is mistaken for another        Year of the Dog (series); and Where the
middle school. In desperation, Thom              student, so she decides to play the part.      Mountain Meets the Moon (series).
makes a deal with the Monkey King and
she's soon swept up in an ancient and            Kim, Patti. It's Girls Like You, Mickey.       Mandanna, Sangu. Kiki Kallira Breaks a
fantastical world where demons, dragons,         Mickey faces a lot of challenges when          Kingdom. Drawn into the mystical world
and Jade princesses actually exist.              starting seventh grade, but an instant         she created, Kiki Kallira must battle against
                                                 connection with new student Sun Joo            her fear and anxiety to save two worlds--
Kadarusman, Michelle. Music for Tigers.          improves her outlook. Also by Patti Kim:       the real and imagined--from the wrath of
Middle-schooler Louisa wants to spend the        I’m OK.                                        an ancient deity bent on total destruction.
summer practicing violin, but is instead
sent to the rainforest camp of her               Krishnaswami, Uma. Step Up to the Plate,       Menon, Sandhya. From Twinkle, With Love
Australian relatives. There she learns that      Maria Singh. In 1945, Maria Singh just         (TWEEN). Aspiring filmmaker and
her family secretly protects the last of the     wants to play softball (and wear shorts        wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson
supposedly extinct Tasmanian tigers. Also        while doing it) but her Mexican Mamá and       about love while directing a movie for the
by Michelle Kadarusman: Girl of the              old fashioned Punjabi Papi don’t believe       arts festival, in which her longtime crush
Southern Sea.                                    that girls should play ball. Also by Uma       and his twin brother are also participating.
                                                 Krishnaswami: Book Uncle and Me.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Saucy. When eleven-                                                          Nagai, Mariko. Under the Broken Sky.
year-old Becca, a quadruplet, finds a sick       Lại, Thanhhà. Listen, Slowly. American-        When Soviet troops invade Japanese-
piglet on the side of the road, her life is      born Mai is looking forward to summer          occupied Manchuria during the last days of
changed forever. Also by Cynthia                 vacation at California's beaches. Instead,     World War II, twelve-year-old Natsu must
Kadohata: Checked and A Place to Belong.         she must travel to Vietnam with her            care for her younger sister as they struggle
                                                 grandmother, who is returning to find out      to survive and return to Japan.
Kelkar, Supriya. That Thing About                what happened to her husband. Also by
Bollywood. Sonali cannot bring herself to        Thanhhà Lại: Inside Out and Back Again.        Nayeri, Daniel. Everything Sad is Untrue:
share her feelings, but when she wakes up                                                       (A True Story). At the front of a middle
one day and begins to involuntarily burst        LaRocca, Rajani. Red, White, and Whole.        school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy
into Bollywood song and dance routines           Reha feels torn between two worlds:            named Khosrou (whom everyone calls
that showcase her emotions, she realizes         school, where she's the only Indian            "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His
she has to find her voice and share her          American student, and home, with her           story. No one believes him, but Khosrou's
feelings. Also by Supriya Kelkar: Ahimsa;        family's traditions and holidays. When         stories, stretching back years, even
American as Paneer Pie; and Strong as            Reha finds out that her Amma is sick, she      centuries, are beautiful and terrifying.
Fire, Fierce as Flame.                           becomes determined to be the perfect
                                                 daughter and save her mother’s life. Also      Oh, Axie. Rebel Seoul (TWEEN series). In
Keller, Tae. Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone.         by Rajani LaRocca: Midsummer’s Mayhem.         2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-
When Jennifer Chan, a new girl who                                                              year-old Jaewon is partnered with
believes she can find aliens, goes missing,      Lee, Julie. Brother's Keeper. Twelve-year-     supersoldier Tera, but their love is
Mallory Moss sets out to find her and must       old Sora and her eight-year-old brother,       threatened when Jaewon must choose
figure out why Jennifer might have run—          Youngsoo, must try to escape North             among conflicting loyalties—to the
and face the truth inside herself. Also by       Korea's oppressive Communist regime on         totalitarian state that promises to end war,
Tae Keller: The Science of Breakable             their own in 1950.                             the nationalist rebels his father followed, or
Things and When You Trap a Tiger.                                                               the crime syndicate staging a coup.

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                                                Saeed, Aisha. Omar Rising. While at an elite   Tsang, Katie. Sam Wu is Not Afraid of
           Fiction cont.                        boarding school on scholarship, Omar, the      Ghosts (series). After an embarrassing
                                                son of a servant, discovers the school         incident on a school trip, Sam wants to
                                                makes it nearly impossible for scholarship     prove that he is not afraid of ghosts.
Oh, Ellen. Finding Junie Kim. After an act of   students to graduate and sets out to           Except…he totally is. Can he conquer his
racism at school, a girl is motivated to        change a rigged system. Also by Aisha          fear by facing the ghost in his house?
learn about her ancestral heritage and her      Saeed: Amal Unbound, Far From Agrabah,
grandparents’ experiences as lost children      and Diana and the Island of No Return.         Venkatraman, Padma. Born Behind Bars.
during the Korean War.                                                                         After spending his whole life in jail with his
                                                Shang, Wendy Wan-Long. The Way Home            mother, who is serving time for a crime she
Pancholy, Maulik. The Best at It. Twelve-       Looks Now. In 1972, after his older brother    did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is
year-old Rahul Kapoor, an Indian-American       is killed in a car crash, Peter’s family is    suddenly released and has to figure out
boy growing up in small-town Indiana,           upended by grief. Peter hopes that if he       how to survive on his own in the outside
struggles to come to terms with his             joins a Little League team, he can             world. Also by Padma Venkatraman: A
identity, including that he may be gay.         reawaken the passion for baseball that all     Time to Dance and The Bridge Home.
                                                the members of his family used to share.
Park, Linda Sue. The One Thing You'd Save.      Also by Wendy Wan-Long Shang: The              Villanueva, Gail D. Sugar and Spite. Jolina
If your house were on fire, what one thing      Great Wall of Lucy Wu.                         can't take Claudine's bullying any longer!
would you save? Explore different answers                                                       Though Jolina knows she's still in-training
to this provocative question in linked          Shen, E.L. The Comeback. Maxine Chen is        to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic,
poems that capture the diverse voices of a      just trying to nail that perfect landing: on   she sneaks into his potions lab to get her
middle school class. Also by Linda Sue          the ice, in middle school, and at home. The    revenge. Also by Gail D. Villanueva: My Fate
Park: Prairie Lotus.                            pressure builds when a gifted new skater       According to the Butterfly.
                                                arrives and a school bully targets Maxine
Perkins, Mitali. Tiger Boy. A tiger cub has     because of her Chinese heritage.               Wang, Andrea. The Many Meanings of
escaped from a reserve in West Bengal,                                                         Meilan. A family feud before the start of
India, and Neel is determined to find her in    Sheth, Kashmira. Boys Without Names.           seventh grade propels Meilan from
order to save her from being captured and       Gopal and his family leave their rural         Boston's Chinatown to rural Ohio, where
sold on the black market. Also by Mitali        Indian village for life with his uncle in      she must tap into her inner strength and
Perkins: Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between        Mumbai. When they arrive, his father goes      sense of justice to make a new place for
Two Cultures by Ten Voices.                     missing and Gopal ends up locked in a          herself.
                                                sweatshop with no escape.
Poulin, Andrée and Sonali Zohra. Burying                                                       Yang, Kelly. Front Desk (series). English is
the Moon. In Latika's village in rural India,   Siddiqui, Maleeha. Barakah Beats. Leaving      not Mia Tang’s first language, but she
there are no toilets, which means that girls    Islamic school to attend “real school,”        wants to be a writer. That’s not her only
leave school when they reach puberty and        Nimra Sharif joins the school’s popular 8th    secret either—her family lives and works in
the women have to wait until night to do        grade band in an attempt to fit in.            a motel where they are hiding other
their business in a field, surrounded by                                                       immigrant families like theirs in the empty
scorpions, snakes and many germs. Latika        Soontornvat, Christina. The Last               rooms under the nose of the mean motel
petitions for the construction of public        Mapmaker. Joining an expedition to chart       owner.
toilets, which would be safer for everybody.    the southern seas, 12-year-old
                                                mapmaker’s assistant Sai, posing as a          Yeh, Kat. The Way to Bea. Recently
Respicio, Mae. Any Day with You. During         well-bred young lady, realizes she’s not the   estranged from her best friend and weeks
the summer before seventh grade, Kaia           only one on board harboring secrets. Also      away from shifting from only child to big
makes a film with her friends to win a          by Christina Soontornvat: The Changelings      sister, seventh grader Beatrix Lee consoles
contest and, hopefully, prevent her beloved     and A Wish in the Dark.                        herself by writing haiku in invisible ink and
great-grandfather from moving back to the                                                      hiding the poems, but one day she finds a
Philippines. Also by Mae Respicio: The          Soundar, Chitra. Mangoes, Mischief, and        reply.
House that Lou Built.                           Tales of Friendship: Stories from India. Can
                                                Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku,        Yun, Erin. Pippa Park Raises Her Game. Life
Riazi, Karuna. The Gauntlet (series).           outsmart the king's trickiest subjects?        is full of great expectations for Pippa Park.
Twelve-year-old Farah and her two best          Being a wise and just ruler is no easy task.   It seems like everyone, from her family to
friends are sucked into a mechanical board                                                     the other kids at school, has a plan for how
game and forced to defeat its diabolical        Tan, Susan. Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future          her life should look. So when Pippa gets a
architect in order to free themselves.          Author Extraordinaire (series). A biracial     mysterious basketball scholarship to
                                                young writer begins penning her memoirs        Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance
Rosenberg, Madelyn and Wendy Wan-Long           in the hope that her family will not forget    to reinvent herself by following the "Rules
Shang. Not Your All-American Girl. Best         about her when the baby arrives.               of Cool."
friends Lauren and Tara both try out for
their middle school musical play. Tara gets     Trehan, Meera. The View From the Very          Zhang, Kat. The Memory of Forgotten
the lead role, because in the teacher's         Best House in Town. Sam and Asha: their        Things. Twelve-year-old Sophia has never
mind Lauren, half-Jewish and half-Chinese,      friendship is so long established, they take   told anyone about her unusual memories—
does not fit the image of “all-American         it for granted. But when Sam is accepted       snapshots of a past that never happened.
girl.” Also by M. Rosenberg and W. Wan-         into an exclusive academy, he leaves Asha      She becomes convinced that the upcoming
Long Shang: This is Just a Test.                alone to navigate middle school and try to     solar eclipse will grant her the opportunity
                                                solve the mystery of a local mansion.          to make her alternate life come true, to
                                                                                               enter a world where her mother never died.
                                                                                               Also by Kat Zhang: The Emperor’s Riddle.

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     Fiction and Graphic Novels

                                                Kim, Julie J. Where's Halmoni? Searching
         Graphic Novels                         for their missing grandmother, two Korean
                                                children follow tracks into a fantastic world
                                                of folklore.
Agarwal, Veronica. Just Roll With It. Maggie,
who struggles with anxiety and OCD, gets        Kim, Patti. Here I Am (Graphic Novels 308.4
through her first year of middle school by      KIM). The story of a family newly
making friends, finding the best after-         immigrated to the United States and the         Tamamo the Fox Maiden and Other Asian
school clubs, and using her twenty-sided        challenges of starting a life in a new place    Stories: Cautionary Fables & Fairytales
dice to help her make decisions.                                                                (Graphic Novels 398.2 TAM). A collection
                                                Khor, Shing Yin. The Legend of Auntie Po.       of Asian folktales retold as comics include
Chanani, Nidhi. Jukebox. A jukebox, old         In a late-19th-century logging camp, Mei, a     vengeful spirits, flying ogres, and trickster
vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music       Chinese American girl, spins tall tales about   tigers from Japan, China, Tibet, India,
history are Shaheen's only clues to her         Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin           Indonesia and beyond.
father's disappearance. When the jukebox        (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.
starts glowing, Shaheen and her cousin          Mei must navigate racism, difficult work,       Torres, J. Stealing Home. When a boy
Tannaz are pulled into another time! Also       and her growing romantic feelings for her       struggles after moving to a Japanese
by Nidhi Chanani: Pashmina.                     friend Bee, the camp foreman’s daughter.        internment camp during WWII, baseball
                                                                                                shows him another way to approach life.
Chau, Alina. Marshmallow & Jordan.              LaMotte, Lily. Measuring Up. Having just        Also by J. Torres: Brobots, How to Spot a
Jordan's days as star player for her            moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-      Sasquatch, and The Mighty Zodiac.
school's basketball team ended when an          old Cici enters a cooking competition to win
accident left her paralyzed from the waist      money for her grandmother to visit, but she     Wang, Jen. Stargazing. Growing up in the
down. Her competition days seem to be           only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.          same Chinese-American suburb,
behind her until an encounter with a                                                            perfectionist Christine and artistic,
mysterious elephant helps Jordan discover       Liu, Margorie. Wingbearer. When a sinister      confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely
a brand new sport.                              force threatens the life-giving magic of the    best friends, whose friendship is tested by
                                                Great Tree, Zuli and her guardian owl           jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Fung, Rosena. Living With Viola. Livy is        embark on an epic journey to find the truth.
already struggling as the new girl at school,                                                   Xu, Ru. Newsprints (series). Blue is an
but also has to deal with Viola, her own        Na, Liu. Little White Duck: A Childhood in      orphan who disguises herself as a
anxiety brought to life as a shadowy twin.      China. A young girl describes her               newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls
Only when Livy learns how to ask for help       experiences growing up in China, beginning      are expected to help the struggling
and face her anxiety does she finally figure    with the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.         economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves
out living with Viola.                                                                          living and working at the Bugle, the only
                                                Nguyen, Trang. Saving Sorya: Chang and          paper in town that tells the truth.
Guojing. The Only Child. A lost little girl     the Sun Bear. Twelve-year-old Chang is
follows a mysterious stag deep into the         accepted as a rescue center volunteer and       Xu, Wendy. Tidesong. When she attempts
woods and journeys through a strange and        is faced with her toughest challenge yet:       to do magic on her own, young witch
wondrous world while trying to go home.         returning the sun bear she raised from          Sophie accidentally entangles herself with
                                                infancy to the wild where it belongs.           a water dragon named Lir whom she tricks
Ha, Gene. Mae (series). Abbie discovered a                                                      into helping her get into the best magic
portal to a fantasy world as a child. Now       The Night Marchers and Other Oceanian           school in the realm.
she has returned home a hero, but her tales     Stories: Cautionary Fables & Fairytales
are too hard for her sister Mae to believe—     (Graphic Novels 398.2 ASH). Lesser known        Yang, Gene Luen. Secret Coders (series).
until the monsters start to cross over.         myths and well-known legends from the           Welcome to Stately Academy, a school
                                                Philippines, New Zealand, Hawaii, and           which is just crawling with mysteries to be
Heagerty, Mat and Tintin Pantoja.               beyond! It’s a thrilling, funny, and totally    solved! Using their wits and their growing
Unplugged and Unpopular. After Erin's           new take on stories from the whole region.      prowess with coding, Hopper and her
parents ban her from using her phone, TV,                                                       friend Eni are determined to figure it all
Internet, and all her screens, she soon         Santat, Dan. The Aquanaut. With her father      out. Also by Gene Luen Yang: Avatar: The
discovers mysterious, strange creatures         lost at sea, Sophie wanders aimlessly           Last Airbender and The Shadow Hero.
and must foil their plot to take over Earth.    around Aqualand, a marine theme park,
                                                until an “aquanaut” breaks into the park’s      Yee, Reimena. Séance Tea Party. After
Inzer, Christine Mari. Diary of a Tokyo Teen:   research lab, revealing Aqualand’s dark         watching her circle of friends seemingly
A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the         side and vowing to free the captive animals.    fade away, Lora is determined to still have
Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets                                                       fun on her own, so when a tea party leads
and Maid Cafes. Just before her sixteenth       Shammas, Nadia. Ms. Marvel Stretched            Lora to discovering Alexa, the ghost that
birthday, Christine spends the summer in        Thin. Having a hard time balancing              haunts her house, they soon become best
Japan with her grandparents, journaling all     everything in her life, Kamala Khan, aka Ms.    friends.
the sights, sounds and people she meets.        Marvel, must pull herself together and learn
                                                to ask for help when a mysterious robot         Young, Ethan. The Dragon Path. The Wong
Johnson, R. Kikuo. The Shark King. The          tries to infiltrate Avengers Towers.            Clan must leave their ruined homeland for
Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human                                                         a better life in the mythical Old Land, but to
mother and shark father, who struggles to       Song, Mika. Norma and Belly: Donut Feed         get there they must follow the dragon path,
find his place in a village of humans.          the Squirrels (series). Two squirrel best       where their sworn enemies, the Dragon
                                                friends meet their match: a donut truck!        Tribe, rule. During a surprise attack, Prince
Jun, Nie. My Beijing: Four Stories of                                                           Sing is separated from his clan. With the
Everyday Wonder. Four short stories set in      Takei, George. They Called Us Enemy             help of Ming, a powerful mystic from the
a residential alleyway of Beijing. Yu'er, her   (TEEN). A graphic memoir recounting             Old Land, and Midnight, a monstrous
grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors      actor/author/activist George Takei's            warrior beast, Prince Sing must do all he
experience the magic of everyday life.          childhood imprisoned within American            can to save both his family and the Dragon
                                                concentration camps during World War II.        Tribe from mutual destruction.
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