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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2024 FPPL AAPI YA Reads
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2024 FPPL AAPI YA Reads
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In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Loveboat volume 1
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When Ever Wong's parents sent her away fro the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
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Seventeen-year-old Santi Arboleda finally feels settled in his new life in Los Angeles with a growing found family and a relationship with musical prodigy Suwa--until Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight that he has always denied himself and they must finally face their dreams, their pasts, and their futures, whether together or apart.
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LSS - AAPI Youth Fiction
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
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OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May) - Youth
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
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Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper-- until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len just seems more like a leader. When Eliza's frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who believe she's a gender equality champion and others who...
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Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision. With her family splintered and her future a question mark, Beth's friends Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou are all she has. She's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really...
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"Chloe Kwon can't stand Peter Li. It's always been that way. Their families don't get along either: their parents operate rival restaurants in the Riverwood Mall food court--Korean food for the Kwons and Chinese food for the Lis. Now it's the holiday season and Chloe's the photographer at the mall's Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. It's all Chloe can do to avoid Peter's smug, incredibly...
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AMPL Dark Academia
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
Books if you like Five Survive
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
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Jamie Ruan is the queen bee of Sinclair Prep. Until one day she's ... dead. Her former closest friends have no idea what happened to her. Or do they? An anonymous poster, calling themselves The Proctor, points a finger: Jamie has four former friends. Each friend has a secret. On day, Jamie goes missing. Which friend is guilty and deserves punishment? Akil Patel is Sinclair Prep's track star ... but can he outrun his secrets and the one who's out to...
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When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
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"David Tung is a New Jersey high school student who is navigating the streets of multiple social circles (regular school in an upscale, Asian-majority suburb versus weekend Chinese school in working-class NYC Chinatown), parental pressures to get As, two possible girlfriends he's not allowed to have, and the fear he will die alone, whether or not he gets into Harvard. David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College is...
13) Rent a boyfriend
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Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your 'Rents employee to keep a roof over his head....
14) Show and tell
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Ben wanted to bring something really neat to school for show-and-tell. So he picked up his baby sister, stuffed her in his knapsack and walked off to school. Then baby sister woke up!
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Oh, The Places You'll Go
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Oh, The Places You'll Go
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"In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own experiences to explore themes of identity and belonging in...
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In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
18) Dove alight
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Dove chronicles volume 3
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Shy, introverted Phaet Theta has gone from being a top student to an interplanetary fugitive to the reluctant but fierce leader of a revolution. With the Earthbound on their side, she and her friends finally have a chance at toppling the evil leaders who've held the Moon captive for decades. But as the death tolls rise, the cost of the war weighs heavily on Phaet, even as she's forced to lead her siblings and Wes, the love of her life, into terrible...