Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Asian/Pacific American Award-Winning Books for Kids
When You Trap a Tiger
Keller, Tae, author.
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger an...
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
Leung, Julie, author.
"An inspiring picture-book biography of animator Tyrus Wong, the Chinese American immigrant res...
Stargazing
Wang, Jen.
2020 Winner. Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, ...
Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom
Robeson, Teresa.
2020 Winner. "When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend schoo...
Front Desk
Yang, Kelly.
Also available in Overdrive. Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-yea...
Drawn Together
Lê, Minh.
Also available in Overdrive. A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using t...
Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
Krishnaswami, Uma.
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Gi...
A Different Pond
Phi, Bao.
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fi...
The Land of Forgotten Girls
Kelly, Erin Entrada.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their h...
Full Cicada Moon
Hilton, Marilyn.
Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-...
Juna
Bahk, Jane.
After her best friend, Hector, moves away, Juna's brother Minho tries to make her feel better ...
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
Faulkner, Matt.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese i...
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Uegaki, Chieri.
Hana Hashimoto has signed up to play her violin at her school's talent show. The trouble is, s...
The Thing About Luck
Kadohata, Cynthia.
Also available in Hoopla. Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wron...
Red Kite, Blue Kite
Jiang, Ji-li.
When Tai Shan and his father, Baba, are separated during China's Cultural Revolution, they are...
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan
Kang, Hildi.
Called to follow the wind and search for information about his father who disappeared many years ag...
Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth
Schoettler, Joan.
When Ji-su's mother is chosen by the emperor to be a seamstress in his court, Ji-su vows to le...
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
Shang, Wendy Wan Long.
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally hav...
The House Baba Built: An Artist
Young, Ed.
"In Ed Young's childhood home in Shanghai, all was not as it seemed: a rocking chair beca...
Shooting Kabul
Senzai, N. H.
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his fa...
Heart of a Samurai
Preus, Margi.
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions...
Yasmin's Hammer
Malaspina, Ann.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, as two girls work hard all day to help support their family by chipping brick...
Cora Cooks Pancit
Lazo Gilmore, Dorina K.
When all her older siblings are away, Cora's mother finally lets her help make pancit, a Filip...
Wabi Sabi
Reibstein, Mark.
Also available in Overdrive. Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanes...
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
Crowe, Ellie.
"A biography of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, five-time Olympic swimming champion from the early 1...
The Legend of Hong Kil Dong, The Robin Hood of Korea
O'Brien, Anne Sibley.
Also available in Hoopla. In this classic tale from early seventeenth-century Korea, Hong Kil Dong, ...

The Firekeeper's Son
Park, Linda Sue.
Also available in Overdrive. In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his a...