ALWAYS WITH YOU
Author: Ruth Vander Zee
Origin: Vietnam
Theme: Challenges, Survival
Grades: 2-4

Kim was orphaned at age 4 when her small village was bombed. She was rescued by American soldiers and take...

BASEBALL SAVED US
EL BÉISBOL NOS SALVÓ
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Origin: Japanese-American
Theme: War
Grades: 2-5

A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment ...

BE WATER MY FRIEND: THE EARLY YEARS OF BRUCE LEE
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Origin: China; United States
Theme: Martial Arts, Actors
Grades: 1-3

A biography of Bruce Lee focusing on his early years in Hong Kong and his developing interest and success i...

BEE TREE, THE
Author: Stephen Buchman and Diana Cohn
Origin: Malaysia
Theme: Science of Bees, Family: Tradition
Grades: 2-5

Nizam, whose grandfather Pak Teh is the leader of the honey hunting clan, must learn to climb the bee tree ...

BRACELET,THE
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
Origin: Japanese American
Theme: War, Friendship
Grades: 2-5

Emi, a Japanese-American second grader, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II. ...

BREAD SONG
Author: Frederick Lipp
Origin: Thai American
Theme: Immigrants, Shyness, Friendship
Grades: K-3

A baker in Portland, Maine invites Chamman, a bashfull Thai child and his grandfather, to hear the bread si...

BROTHERS
Author: Yin
Origin: Chinese American
Theme: Brothers, Friendship, prejudice
Grades: 2-5

As a follow-up to Coolies by the same author, this book finds the two brothers living in Chinatown, San Fra...

CAGED BIRDS OF PHNOM,THE
Author: Frederick Lipp
Origin: Cambodia
Theme: Freedom
Grades: 5-9

A story about a young girl living in the city who releases a caged bird. According to a local custom, givin...

CONFUCIUS: THE GOLDEN RULE
Author: Russel Freedman
Origin: China
Theme: Biography
Grades: 3-7

For today's students, this is a book, which is a conprehensible introduction to Eastern thought. It will op...

COOL MELONS-TURN TO FROGS
Author: Matthew Gollub
Origin: Japan
Theme: Nature
Grades: 2-5

A biography and introduction to the work of the 18th century Haiku poet, Kobayashi Yataro.

COOLIES
Author: Yin
Origin: Chinese Americans
Theme: Honor, Ancestors, Transcontinental Railroad
Grades: 3-5

A young boy hears the story of his ancestors and the part they played in the building of the Transcontinent...

COOPER'S LESSON
Author: Sun Yung Shin
Origin: Korean American
Theme: Identity, Intergenerational Friendship
Grades: K-5

Cooper is Korean who doesn't speak or understand the Korean language. He has problems with Mr. Lee at the ...

DEAR JUNO
Author: Soyung Pak
Origin: Korean American
Theme: Language, Family
Grades: K-2

An interesting story that shows us how a Korean American boy is able to read his Korean grandmother's lette...

DIA'S STORY CLOTH
Author: Dia Cha
Origin: Laos
Theme: Heritage, Family, Traditions
Grades: K-6

For centuries, needlework has been a part of Hmong culture. But only since the war in Vietnam and Laos, whi...

DRAGON NEW YEAR: A CHINESE LEGEND
Author: David Bouchard
Origin: China
Theme: Folklore
Grades: 1-4

The author charmingly weaves fact and folklore to explain how the Chinese New Year traditions came to be.

EMPTY POT, THE
Author: Demi
Origin: China
Theme: Honesty
Grades: K-2

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the Emperor's seed, he is ...

FLOWERS FROM MARIKO
Author: Rick Noguchi & Deneen Jenks
Origin: Japanese-American
Theme: Japanese Internment
Grades: 1-3

When she and her family are released from the Japanese American internment camp where they have spent the l...

FOUR FEET, TWO SANDALS
Author: Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed
Origin: Afghanistan; Pakistan
Theme: Conflict & Resolution
Grades: 2-4

Two young girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share one pair of sandals brought by relief workers.

GHOSTS FOR BREAKFAST
Author: Stanley Todd Terasaki
Origin: USA
Theme: Farming, Imagination
Grades: K-3

Takes place on a vegetable farm in Orange County in the late 1920's. Many Japanese imigrants started as far...

GOING HOME, COMING HOME (BILINGUAL)
Author: Truong Tran
Origin: Vietnam
Theme: Family, Traditions, Travel
Grades: PreK-3

This moving bilingual picture book, from an author and artist who are both Vietnamese American, tells a con...

GOING TO SCHOOL IN INDIA
Author: Lisa Heydlauff
Origin: East Indian
Theme: School
Grades: K-3

A non-fiction account of "Going to School in India" presents many different kinds of schools, religions, an...

GOLD-THREADED DRESS, THE
Author: Carolyn Marsden
Origin: Thai and Mexican-Ame
Theme: Belonging
Grades: 2-4

When Oy and her Thai-American family move to a new neighborhood, her fourth grade classmates tease and excl...

GOOD-BYE, 382 SHIN DANG DONG
Author: Frances Park & Ginger Park
Origin: Korea
Theme: Immigration
Grades: K-3

Jangmi, a young Korean girl, can't bear the thought of leaving her home and moving to America. Story is ba...

GRANDFATHER COUNTS
Author: Andrea Cheng
Origin: USA
Theme: Bilingualism, Family, Grandparents
Grades: K-4

A moving intergenerational story, Grandfather Counts highlights the universality of the love shared between...

GRANDFATHER'S JOURNEY
Author: Allen Say
Origin: Japan
Theme: Immigration
Grades: K-3

A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later, also, undertakes, and...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. KANG
Author: Susan L. Roth
Origin: Chinatown, New York
Theme: Immigration
Grades: 2-5

A story of China and America, of cages and freedom, of life, liberty and the persuit of happiness in New Yo...

HEROES
Author: Ken Mochizuki
Origin: USA
Theme: Cultural Differences, War
Grades: K-3

Set against the backdrop of the 60's, and a conflict in Vietnam, this story explores how one family deals w...

HIROMÍ'S HANDS
Author: Lynn Barasch
Origin: Japanese American; N
Theme: Family, Tradition
Grades: 1-5

This book is a biography of Hiromi Suzuki, who under the guidance of her father, would become a sushi chef,...

HOME OF THE BRAVE
Author: Allen Say
Origin: USA
Theme: Japanese Internment
Grades: 2-5

A very powerful book which is presented in dreamlike sequences. It challenges readers to look beyond the fa...

HOW MAMA BROUGHT THE SPRING
Author: Fran Manushkin
Origin: Belarus, America
Theme: Traditions
Grades: K-2

Mama tries to get Rosy up in the morning, but Rosy is reluctant to get up to another snowy Chicago morning....