Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time Lisa Yee, 2005

Stanford’s talent is basketball, not school. When he flunks English, he’s desperate to hide from his friends (who expect him to spend the summer on the court—not in a classroom).

Seeing Emily Joyce Lee Wong, 2005

Emily is sixteen and a budding artist. When her parents move from China to America, she tells her story in poems as she learns to make sense of her conflicting feelings.

Red Scarf Girl Ji Li Jiang, 1997, 1998

When the Cultural Revolution turns young Ji Li’s life upside down in the China of the 1960s, she must learn to navigate the suddenly treacherous waters of a society that is rejecting the “four olds” and embracing a new future.

Nothing But The Truth (And A Few White Lies) Justina Chen Headley, 2006

Patty Ho thinks she is a "bizarrely tall Freakinstein cobbled together from Asian and white DNA."

Mismatch Lensey Namioka

Suzanne Hua and Andy Suzuki meet in high school orchestra class and discover romance together… but Suzanne’s Chinese family can’t forget the Japanese invasion of China, and Andy's Japanese family just sees the Huas as “dirty, backward" Chinese.

Dragonwings Laurence Yep, 1975, 1990

Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep is a prolific Chinese-American author and winner of the 2005 Wilder Award.

Chloe Lieberman (Sometimes Wong) Carrie Rosten, 2005

Chloe is more obsessed with her looks than the SATs and applying to college… but can this Jewish-Chinese-American gal turn a passion for fashion into a realistic future for herself?

American-Born Chinese Gene Yang, 2006

American-Born Chinese by Gene Yang
2007 winner of the Printz Award for Excellence in YA Literature!
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