Fact and Fiction: Books about Asian Pacific Americans for Students K-12: Best Picks for Asian Pacific American Readers
Picture Books
- In Search of the Thunder Dragon by Sophie Shrestha
- Who Belongs Here? : An American Story by Margy Burns Knight*
- Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings*
- Dia’s Story Cloth by Dia Cha*
- My Chinatown: One Year in Poems by Kam Mak*
- My Dadima Wears a Sari by Kashmira Sheth*
- Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki*
- Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo*
- A Mien Family by Sara Gogol*
- Kancil and the Crocodiles: A Tale from Malaysia by Noreha Yussof Day
- The Wise Washerman: A Folktale from Burma by Deborah Froese
- Singapore Children’s Favorite Stories by Di Taylor and Lak Khee Tay-Audouard
- A Family in Sri Lanka by Gay Bennett
- A Tibetan Family by Stephen Chicoine*
- Going Home, Coming Home by Truong Tran*
Young Readers
- Home is East by Many Ly*
- Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World by Paul Yee*
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep *
- Little Cricket by Jackie Brown*
- Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming*
- The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen by Mitali Perkins*
- Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation by Yoshiko Uchida*
- A Day for Vincent Chin and Me by Jacqueline Turner Banks *
- Kimchi and Calamari by Rose Kent*
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- Iqbal: A Novel by Francesco D’Adamo
- Year of the Dog by Grace Lin*
- The Gold Threaded Dress by Carolyn Marsden*
- Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren*
- The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong*
Teen Fiction
- Ask Me No Questions by Marina Tamar Budhos*
- Roots and Wings by Many Ly*
- Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
- Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier*
- Disguised: A Wartime Memoir by Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli
- Mismatch: A Novel by Lensey Namioka*
- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata *
- A Step from Heaven by An Na*
- Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee *
- I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Wilson Diana Lee
- Sold by Patricia McCormick
- Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
- Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults edited by Cecilla Manguerra Brainard *
- Nothing But the Truth, and a Few White Lies by Justina Chen Headley *
- Shadow of the Dragon by Sherry Garland *
*Focus on Asian Pacific Americans
More Resources
- Cultures of the World published by Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
- Enchantment of the World published by Children's Press
- We are America published by Heinemann Library
- Asian American Experience published by Chelsea House
- American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices edited by Lawrence Yep
- A Kid's Guide to Asian American History: More than 70 Activities by Valerie Petrillo
Other Asian Pacific American Reading Lists on the Internet
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