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Yen, Jennifer

Summary: Smart, kind, and pretty, Liza Yang dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. But her mom compares her to older sister Jeannie, and sees Liza as stubborn, rebellious, and determined to push back against all of Mrs. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. The one thing they agree on is their love of baking. Mrs. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEN

Park, Suzanne

Summary: "Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Gracia, Anna

Summary: Three Asian American teen girls look for direction in their lives as they compete against each other at an elite tennis tournament.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2024

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Sunmi

Summary: "Caroline Kim is feeling the weight of sophomore year. When she starts tutoring infamous senior Kimberly Park-Ocampo--a charismatic lesbian, friend to rich kids and punks alike--Caroline is flustered . . . but intrigued. Their friendship kindles and before they know it, the two are sneaking out for late-night drives, bonding beneath the stars over music, dreams, and a shared desire of getting...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SUN

Ma, Diana

Summary: If there's one thing Lily Hong can't stand, it's being second best. That's why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge. She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago . . . her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MA

Kwok, Jean

Summary: Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth--another female casualty of China's controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly desperate decisions if she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KWO
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KWO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWO

Abbas, Marzieh

Summary: It's Noor's first time making her Dadijaan's Special Samosa recipe. When she can't get in touch with her Dadijaan because it's nighttime in Pakistan, Noor must improvise to make her family's recipe without all of the correct ingredients.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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Quach, Michelle

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2021

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Chen, Nicole

Summary: "An Asian American girl shares how her family expresses their love for one another through actions rather than words"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHE

Ho, Joanna

Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HO

Zhao, Katie

Summary: Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.--Provided by Publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZHA

Ko, Lisa

Summary: "Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KO

Gilbert, Kelly Loy

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster/BFYR 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GIL

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GIL

Hoàng, Brandon

Summary: As one of only two Asian Americans in his school and often left out, Gary jumps at the chance of breaking into the school's popular clique by befriending the most beautiful girl in school, but as he comes closer to achieving his goal, Gary also risks losing the only person who sees the real him.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOA

Li, Christina

Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LI

Min, Lio

Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIN

Shen, E. L.

Summary: Seventeen-year-old inseparable best friends Jia, Ariel, and Everett navigate first love, grief, racism, and Asian American consciousness during one life-changing summer apart.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHE

Yu, Charles

Summary: "From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Yu 2020

Ho, Joanna

Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before--in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HO

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HO

Ho, Joanna

Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before-in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG HO

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YOU

Ho, Joanna

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HO

Prasad, Maya

Summary: "The four teen Singh sisters navigate romance, coming of age, and chasing their dreams over the course of one windy November day"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PRA

Tsukiyama, Gail

Summary: At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies. Wong Liu Tsong and her sister, daughters of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry, are taunted and bullied for their Chinese heritage. Determined to become an actress, Wong Liu has already chosen a stage name: Anna May Wong. Defying her disapproving father and her Chinese traditional upbringing will hold emotional and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TSU

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