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| Carlson, Lori |
American Eyes: New Asian American Short Stories for Young Adults (1996) |
| There's no place for stereotypes in these stories featuring characters from Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese families. |
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| Chin, Frank |
Donald Duk (1991) |
| Donald learns to respect himself and his ancestors. |
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| Crew, Linda |
Children of the River (1989) |
| Sundara's family settles in Oregon after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. |
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| Goonan, Kathleen |
Bones of Time (1996) |
| Young math genius Cen Kalakaua's space/time theories intersect with the travels of Lynn Oshima, who runs into 13-year-old Akamu, the clone of Hawaii's nineteenth-century King Kamehameha. Shelved with science fiction. |
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| Guterson, David |
Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) |
| In the 1950s, a Japanese American fisherman is accused of murder on a small island in the Puget Sound. |
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| Jen, Gish |
Mona in the Promised Land (1996) |
| Mona Chang converts to Judaism, falls in love and learns to understand her Chinese American parents against the background of the 1960s. |
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| Lee, Gus |
China Boy (1991) |
| Kai Ting learns to fight back when he's confronted by an evil stepmother an a neighborhood bully. |
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| Lee, Marie |
Necessary Roughness (1996) |
| Korean American twins move from urban California to rural Minnesota, a place where everything from sports to popularity seems to run according to different rules. |
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| McCunn, Ruthanne Lum |
Thousand Pieces of Gold (1981) |
| This historical novel features one woman's journey from Chinese slave to American pioneer. |
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| Namioka, Lensey |
April and the Dragon Lady (1994) |
| Her grandmother has been a tyrant, so it's hard for April to come to terms with her grandmother's increasing frailty. |
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| Ng, Fae |
Bone (1994) |
| The Leong sisters grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown, helping to keep the family's secrets. |
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| Salisbury, Graham |
Under the Blood Red Sun (1994) |
| During World War II, Tomikazu Nakji learns about the limits of freedom and the value of friendship. |
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| Wartski, Maureen |
Candle in the Wind (1995) |
| A hate crime threatens to tear apart the victim's family. |
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| Wong, Shawn |
Homebase (1991) |
| Rainsford Chan's family has been in the United States for 125 years. |
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| Yamanaka, Lois |
Wild Meat and Bully Burgers (1996) |
| Japanese American Lovey Nariyoshi grows up in Hawaii, comparing and contrasting her Japanese American family with their multicultural neighbors. |