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BOOKLISTS: Asian & American

Candle in the wind by Maureen Crane Wartski
As white supremacist groups descend on a town and attacks of hate graffiti, vandalism, and violence mount against Asian families, the threat of even more bloodshed emerges.

Child bride by Ching Yeung Russell
An eleven-year-old Chinese girl is sent to her grandmother's village for an arranged marriage, and tries every method she can think of to escape her fate.

Children of the river by Crew, Linda
A Cambodian girl who fled her country with her aunt attempts to fit in to an American lifestyle.

Farewell to Manzanar: a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Seven year old Jeanne Wakatsukiin's family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans.

Kim/Kimi by Hadley Irwin
15-year-old Kim Andrews Japanese father died before she was born. With support from her loving Irish-American mother Kim goes to San Diego to discover her lost heritage.

Red scarf girl : a memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Ji-li Jiang was twelve years old in 1966, the year Chairman Mao launched the Cultural Revolution in China. Read this true story of one family's courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.

Snow falling on cedars by David Guterson
A Japanese-American is arrested and put on trial for the murder of a local fisherman. Read about the impact on the local community and what it tells us of the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, and racism.

Song of the Buffalo Boy by Sherry Garland
The story of a 15 year old American-Asian girl living in Vietnam with a dream to go to America to search for her father.

A step from heaven by An Na
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Year of impossible goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea