Asian Reads

Notes From Your BooksellerTold in alternating perspectives set 18 years apart, Ground Zero is an extraordinary story about one of the most devast...

Here it is! The hugely anticipated follow-up to Gratz's NYT bestselling, critically acclaimed phenomenon REFUGEE. This is another searing and hea...

Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of...

Thai American creators portray the inspirational and barrier-breaking life of Senator Tammy Duckworth in a picture-book tribute to an extraordinary...

Miyamoto Musashi was a well-known samurai during the 17th century. Your mission is to travel back in time to feudal Japan, learn the samurai custom...

Becoming American: A Young Adult World War II Novel by Callie J. Trautmiller shows how siblings cope under the stress of war. Readers of all ages w...

Becoming American: A Young Adult World War II Novel by Callie J. Trautmiller shows how siblings cope under the stress of war. Readers of all ages w...

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin's award-winning non...

Ben Kuroki, a Nebraska-born, Japanese American who fought very hard to become an American aerial gunner and a hero during World War II, flew a tota...

**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner****Middle School Book of the Year— Northern Lights Book Awards****Skipping Stones Honor Award Wi...

Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book, American Library Association (ALA) Parents' Choice Gold Award, Parents' Choice Foundation Teacher's...

Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since.By Augu...

Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other side of the world.The Vietnam War was as much a p...

Trapped in an enemy tunnel, a young refugee experiences the Korean War firsthand in this searing story of survival, loss, and hope, a companion to ...

With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese internment in World War ...

Adapted for young readers from the New York Times bestseller by Daniel James Brown, Facing the Mountain is the remarkable true story of three brave...

Read Padma Venkatraman's posts on the Penguin Blog. Fifteen-year-old Vidya dreams of going to college-- an unusual aspiration for a girl living in ...

"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II seriesDis...

"Necessary for all of humankind, Under the Broken Sky is a breathtaking work of literature."--Booklist, starred review A beautifully told middle-gr...

A child and her family take in refugees during the Korean War in this poignant picture book about courage and what it really means to care for yo...

The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children's Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who d...