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Biography  l  Fiction  l  Graphic Novels  l  Non-Fiction  l  Poetry & Short Stories

 

Biography

 

 

The Woman Warrior

Kingston, Maxine Hong

B.K5514 K1

An anti-nostalgic book about growing up female and Chinese-American in California.

 

 

 

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Fiction

 

 

The Good Earth

Buck, Pearl S.

Fiction B85g 1949

Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant, rises from poverty to become a rich landowner with the aid of his patient wife in the 1920s.

 

 

 

 

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Butler, Robert Olen

Fiction B972g2001

This 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner is a collection of stories that captures the experiences of the Vietnamese people around the time of the Vietnam War

 

 

 

Monkey Bridge

Cao, Lan

Fiction C1698m

Mai, a Vietnamese refugee in the United States, has to take care of her mother in a strange country. A teenager should not have to do this, Mai thinks. How will she survive in America when her mother can't even do it?

 

Children of the River

Crew, Linda

Fiction C8671c

Sundara fled Cambodia when she was very young. Now a teenager, she is haunted by memories and questions about what might have been. How can she be an American teenager when she can't deal with her Cambodian past?

 

Monkey

Ch’eng-en, Wu

Fiction H859:Ew1958

Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest sets out on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures. Along the way, he and his three unruly disciples: the greedy pig creature, Pipsy, the river monster, Sandy, and Monkey, face dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards.

 

 

 

    Indie Girl

    Daswani, Kavita

    Fiction D262i

    Indira Konkipuddi or "Indie" as she calls herself, has always dreamed of becoming a fashion journalist, and she gets

    her chance when she is hired to babysit for the son of the publisher of Celebrity Style, a fashion magazine.

 

 

 

 

The Breadwinner

Ellis, Deborah

Fiction EL5904b

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

 

 

Song of the Buffalo Boy

Garland, Sherry

Fiction G1839s

Loi, an Asian-American girl, must decide to marry the older man to whom she has been promised or to follow her heart. She loves the buffalo herder but as a product of an interracial union, she has been ostracized by her community.

 

 

Born Confused

Hidier, Tanuja Desai

Fiction D451b2003

Dimple doesn't feel completely American or completely Indian. When she meets Karsh, a suitable Indian boy, she becomes even more confused.

 

 

The Kite Runner

Hosseini, Khaled

Fiction H794ki2005

An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons--their love, their sacrifices, their lies.

 

Kira-kira

Kadohata, Cynthia

Fiction K116k

Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

 

 

Snow Country

Kawabata, Yasunari

Fiction K179y:es

A tale of wasted love by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author. Follows the story of a tragic affair between a wealthy dilettante and a mountain geisha who gives herself to him without illusions or regrets.

 

 

 

Interpreter of Maladies

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Fiction L1393i

A debut collection of short fiction blends elements of Indian traditions with the complexities of American culture in such tales as "A Temporary Matter," in which a young Indian-American couple confronts their grief over the loss of a child, while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout.

 

China Boy

Lee, Gus

Fiction L5123c1994

Kai Ting's life in 1950s San Francisco is anything but easy. Fighting bullies and surviving on the streets is more than he ever bargained for.

 

 

 

Honor and Duty

Lee, Gus

Fiction L5123h

In this sequel to China Boy, Kai Ting is now a cadet at West Point. Amidst the stress of school, Kai deals with pressures from his parents to be more American. Kai’s friends and other family members help him look to his roots.

 

 

Finding My Voice

Lee, Marie G.

Fiction L5143f

Ellen is the only Korean student in her Minnesota high school. Life would be easier if her strict parents weren't pressuring her to get into Harvard and a guy wasn't trying to kiss her.

 

 

Necessary Roughness

Lee, Marie G.

Fiction L5143n1998

Chan Kim was the popular soccer star of his Los Angeles high school. Now he and his twin sister are the only Koreans in their new high school in Minnesota. Chan starts to play football to fit in, but will he survive the team hazing?

 

 

 

Saying Goodbye

Lee, Marie G.

Fiction L5143s

In this sequel to Finding My Voice, Ellen is at Harvard. However, she doesn't want to be a doctor as her parents wish. She wants to write. Will she be able to break out on her own, or is she trapped by her past?

 

One Bird

Mori, Kyoko

Fiction M82411o1996

Megumi's mother has separated from her father which means Megumi can never see her mother again. With her father rarely around, Megumi finds life without any parents extremely painful and challenging.

 

 

 

Shizuko’s Daughter

Mori, Kyoko

Fiction M824s1994

Yuki is still recovering from her mother’s suicide when her father remarries. She withdraws as she finds living with a stepmother even more difficult than having no mother at all.

 

 

 

A Step from Heaven

Na, An

Fiction N11s

Young Ju describes her family’s bittersweet experience in the United States after their emigration from Korea. Their hopes for a better life in America are complicated by the difficulty of learning English, their insular family life, and the traditions of the country they left behind.

 

 

 

    Wait for Me

    Na, An

    Fiction N112w

    As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of

    her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love

    with a man who offers a way out.

 

 

    Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

    Namioka, Lensey

    Fiction N151t

    Ailin should have had her feet bound like her sisters, but her father didn't make her. He even let her go to school. Unfortunately, when he

    dies and Ailin's uncle leads the family, she must choose between traditional and modern views.

 

 

A Single Shard

Park, Linda Sue

Fiction P2197s

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

 

 

The Laughing Sutra

Salzman, Mark

Fiction Sa392La1992

A naive but courageous orphan and the formidable Colonel Sun risk everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture in post-Cultural Revolution China and contemporary San Francisco.

 

 

    Keeping Corner

    Sheth, Kashmira

    Fiction Sh592k

    In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine,

    whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma

    Ghandi's social and political reforms.

 

Shabanu

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

Fiction St2751sh2003

Shabanu is to marry one man but she finds she must marry another to solve a family problem. The question is, what does Shabanu really want?

 

 

 

Under the Persimmon Tree

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

Fiction St275u

During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

 

 

Shiva’s Fire

Staples, Suzanne Fisher

Fiction St2751s2001

Parvati isn't like other children. She has gifts and talents few others possess. Some people like that while others despise her.

 

 

 

 

The Joy Luck Club

Tan, Amy

Fiction T154jo1995

Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughters’ memories and feelings.

 

 

The Hundred Secret Senses

Tan, Amy

Fiction T154hu1995

Kwan, a seventeen-year-old from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts of the past with her dreams of the future.

 

The Kitchen God’s Wife

Tan, Amy

Fiction T154k

A Chinese immigrant who is convinced she is dying threatens to celebrate the Chinese New Year by unburdening herself of everybody's hidden truths, thus prompting a series of comic misunderstandings.

 

 

 

Motherland

Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta

Fiction V691m

Maya was born in India, but she's lived most of her life in New York. Sent to visit her family in India one summer, Maya learns more about her roots that she ever planned.

 

 

My Brother, My Sister, and I

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima

Fiction W3282m1996

While thirteen-year-old, Yoko, her brother, and sister try to locate their missing father in post-World War II Japan they must endure the near death of Yoko’s sister and false charges of murder against Yoko’s brother.

 

 

 

Child of the Owl

Yep, Laurence

Fiction Y43ch1990

When Casey’s father ends up in the hospital, she is sent to Chinatown to live with her grandmother. Though the culture in Chinatown is foreign to her and she feels lost, she begins to uncover information about both her mother’s and father’s past.

 

 

Mountain Light

Yep, Laurence

Fiction Y43mo1997

When he takes part in a rebellion against the Manchus in China, nineteen-year-old Squeaky wins Cassia’s heart. But to truly prove his worth as a man to Cassia and his village, Squeaky leaves China to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California.

 

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Graphic Novels

 

 

The Yellow Jar

Atangan, Patrick

GN ATA

This book, drawn in ukiyo-e style, features The Yellow Jar, a story centered on a simple fisherman and a beautiful maiden he takes as a wife after finding her in a magic jar.

 

 

    The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

    Fleming, Ann Marie

    GN F629m

    Who was Long Tack Sam? He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus.

    He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A restaurateur. A theater owner. A world traveler. An East-West

    ambassador. A mentor to Orson Welles. He was considered the greatest act in the history of vaudeville.

 

American Born Chinese

Yang, Greg Luen

GN.Y163a

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

 

 

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Non-Fiction

 

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Poetry & Short Stories

 

 

American Eyes

Carlson, Lori

813.08 Am35391996

This book contains ten very different stories about what it means to be an Asian-American teenager.

 

 

American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

Yep, Laurence

810.8 AM3523

Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a different story about the Asian American experience.

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