Diversity: Asian

TITLE & AUTHOR

American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices

YEP, Y (ed.)

A collection of short stories, poems and dramatic pieces on what it is like to grow up Asian American.

American Eyes. New Asian Short Stories For Young Adults*

CARLSON, L

Short stories exploring the conflicts young people feel living in two distinct worlds - one of memories and traditions, and one of today.

Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress

During the Cultural Revolution in China, two teenagers are sent to the countryside for "re-education". They are assigned the revolting task of carrying buckets of excrement up a hillside for the peasant farmers. When they discover a wealth of forbidden Western books, life on the hillside takes a brighter turn.

Blessing Over Ashes

The remarkable true story of a 14-year-old refugee from the killing fields of Cambodia who changes the life of his American foster parents.

Bonesetter’s Daughter

LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the "Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain". Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China.

Children Of The River

A powerful novel that tells the story of teenage Sundra from Cambodia, who flees with her aunt’s family from the Khmer Rouge terror to a small Oregon town.

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story Of An Unwanted Daughter

YEN MAH, A

An authentic portrait of 20^th-century China, as well as the story of the painful childhood of an unwanted daughter.

Colors Of The Mountain

Rich with scenes of rural life in China at the time of Mao Zedung's Cultural Revolution, this memoir of a boyhood full of mischief and love is an exhilarating account of success in the face of adversity.

Falling Leaves

Adeline Yen Mah, the youngest daughter of an affluent Chinese family, endured a childhood of appalling emotional abuse. Her struggles reveal the harsh realities of growing up female in 20^th century China.

Farewell To Manzanar

The true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention.

Finding My Voice

Korean-American high school senior Ellen Sung struggles against racism and her own family's dreams for her to find a place for herself in two very different cultures.

Foreign Bodies

Three rootless friends in their twenties, living in Singapore, are each looking for a place where life holds meaning.

Hundred Secret Senses

Japanese Short Stories

AKUTAGAWA, R

A collection of short stories depicting the Japanese way of life.

Join In: Multi-Ethnic Stories By Outstanding Writers For Young Adults

GALLO, D (ed.)

Collection of short stories representing a wide variety of ethnic cultures, including African American, Asian, Hispanic and Native American.

Joy Luck Club

Chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their forty-year friendship, and how the death of one member brings her daughter into the group, creating a new understanding for each.

Kim/Kimi

IRWIN, H

Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather and half brother, 16-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew.

Kitchen God’s Wife

An unfolding of secrets that takes a mother and her daughter back to the small island outside Shangui in the 1920’s and throughout China during WW II.

Likes Of Me*

Cordelia is a Chinese American young woman isolated from the world in a remote lumber town in 1918. When she meets a young man, and falls in love, she is determined to follow him.

Memoirs Of A Geisha

The remarkable story of Nitta Sayuri, a gray-eyed geisha. In a world where ritual is prized above individual happiness, Nitta risks everything she has achieved for a chance at happiness.

Name Me Nobody*

An awkward Hawaiian teenager searches for self and place as a scorned outsider in her high school.

Necessary Roughness

The move from LA to a small town in Minnesota is a cultural shock for Chan Kim, an Asian teen who must learn to deal with intolerance as well as the anxiety of adolescence and a problematic relationship with his father.

No-No Boy

Ichiro returns to his home in Seattle after spending time in an internment camp and serving a two year prison sentence for refusing to serve in the US armed forces in WW II.

Obasan

Picture Bride

UCHIDA, Y

Hana, a Japanese immigrant, comes to America to marry a man she has never met.

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir Of The Cultural Revolution

Ji-li Jiang faces terror, persecution and an impossible choice when she must denounce her family or sacrifice her future with the Communist Party during China's Cultural Revolution.

Shadow Of The Dragon*

16-year-old Danny Vo is caught between two worlds. He fits in with his American friends, yet they don't seem to understand his traditional Vietnamese life.

Snow Falling On Cedars

In 1954 on the isolated beaches of San Pedro Island in Puget Sound, a local fisherman mysteriously drowns. When a Japanese American is charged with his murder, it becomes clear over the course of the ensuing trial that much more is at stake than one man's guilt.

Song Of The Buffalo Boy

Loi, a 17-year-old American-Asian left behind when the Americans withdraw from Vietnam, faces an important decision. Should she abandon her beloved country and family for a new life in America?

Spring Tone

Tomomi feels as though her whole life is turning upside down when her grandmother's death, the onset of puberty, and family secrets bring disturbing dreams.

Spring Tone*

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break*

Unaware of the consequences of her refusal to have her feet bound, Ailin learns the harsh realities of being an adolescent girl living outside the Chinese traditions.

Under The Blood-Red Sun

When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, everything changes for Hawaiian-born Tomi and his Japanese parents and grandfather.

Voices From Vietnam

This high caliber oral history successfully weaves quotations and commentary to tell the story of what it was like in Vietnam.

When Heaven And Earth Changed Places

Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of A Girlhood Amongst Ghosts

Vivid and poetic account of what it was like to grow up as the daughter of a traditional Chinese family that found women inferior to men and considered all non-Chinese "ghosts".