Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander heritage

After her dad abruptly abandons her family, Noor Khan is forced to start the last quarter of her senior year at a new school and plans to keep her head down until she discovers hundreds of books being removed from the library and speaks up to effect change.

A 12-year-old Japanese American baseball superfan forced to spend his summer in Oregon with his grandfather instead of playing elite ball.

Born to a Korean Buddhist mother and Jewish father, the author shares her remarkable journey from outsider to one of America’s most influential rabbis.

Promised safety outside of San Francisco, twelve-year-old Mei Mei travels by herself to Eureka, California where she navigates increasing violence against her community leading up to the expulsion of Chinese immigrants in 1885.

Lana Lee teams up with private detective Lydia Shepard to solve the murders of members of the secretive Eight Immortals order in Asia Village, navigating hidden connections, personal stakes and dangerous deceptions to prevent the killer from claiming their next victim.

A personal cookbook that focuses on intuitive, vegetable-forward, and healthier cooking that blends Asian-American flavors with Cali-Californian techniques.

Louisa, a 10-year-old girl, survives a mysterious beach incident in Japan where her Korean-born father, Serk, disappears. Together, Louisa and her American-born mother navigate this tragedy over decades.

Illuminates how an over century-long history of Asian migration, labor and community formation in the U.S. is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early 21st century.

A spilled drink at a Seattle bar introduces AJ-- who's ready to reinvent himself as a gay Asian man-- to K, John and Steve. AJ's "Boy Luck Club" helps him find love, pride and belonging-- until a brutal attack tests everything they know about friendship and family.

After Mei Mei breaks her ama's favorite cup, she fears her grandmother's anger and hides the truth. When the family cat Mimi is blamed instead, Mei Mei's guilt grows until she finally confesses, learning honesty is the best choice.

An journalist's story of unexpected homecomings, familial hardship and fierce devotion to ancestry creates a new narrative about Hawaii, its native people and their struggle to hold on to their land and culture today.

Set in 16th century Korea, this queer, feminist reimagining of the Fox Maiden legend from Korean mythology follows Kai Song, who is determined to be a warrior as she must come to terms with her true identity and take control of her destiny after learning a deadly secret.

Molly Teng, a girl who can see secrets by touching objects, moves into an old house and meets Jade, a hungry ghost trapped for over a century. They work together to uncover secrets from Jade's past and stop her hunger.

17-year-old Emma is a skeptic who stopped believing in love after her parents' divorce. She begins receiving mysterious notes from someone claiming to be her love from the future and she races to uncover the identity of the letter writer.

With her life in disarray after her Appa's extramarital affair and subsequent departure, Ji-won, plagued by horrifying yet enticing dreams of bloody rooms full of eyes, is overcome by hunger and rage that can only be sated by deceit, manipulation and murder as victims accumulate around her college c

An accomplished actress and an attractive, troubling young man meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. In this novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day-- partner, parent, creator, muse-- and the truths every performance masks.

Nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, explore themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness.

A young girl and her Yaya get into mischief, meet people and make and dan-tats during her weekly visits to his long-term care home.

Graduate students Alice and Peter must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul: perhaps at the cost of their own.

A child moves far away from everything comforting and familiar, but slowly discovers home is where the heart is.

While building entire worlds out of blocks, cardboard and imagination, two kids wonder if they've reached their breaking point when their latest masterpiece comes tumbling down, until they realize they've built something far greater-- a solid friendship with a strong foundation.

Mindy is so excited to go back to Korea-- not only are she, Dad and Julie going to the popular tourist spot, Jeju Island, it's baby Charlie's first big international trip!

This adaptation of the The Making of Asian America shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the U.S., and who continue to do so today, telling a powerful story of race, racism, bravery and hope.

Two teen girls from colliding parallel universes meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.

When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status. Eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.

A 12-year-old, Broadway-obsessed girl with a tracheostomy tube is assigned to stage crew instead of the lead role. After overhearing she was sidelined due to her disability, she fights to prove she deserves a fair shot

A mother and her children have a ritual-- every week they prepare a loaf of bread from scratch, kneading, baking and eating it together.

Ajay Anthonipillai wins a million-dollar prize in a candy bar he stole trying to impress a popular kid, pushing Ajay to navigate his identity and morality in deciding whether to claim something that could change his family's life forever.

A self-proclaimed sock detective inside her parents' New York City laundromat, 10-year-old Magnolia Wu and Iris, a new friend from California, set off across the city to solve the mystery of each missing sock, meeting people and uncovering the unimaginable along the way.

Moving from Hong Kong to America, Jun, who only knows a few words of English, finds her new school foreign and frightening, but when she opens her lunchbox to find her favorite meals, she realizes home isn't so far away after all.

A collection of short essays that investigate the relationship between humans and food, discussing how different dishes and traditions impact our identities and evoke associations and remembrances of joy, grief and desire.

NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family's daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.

In the city of Kingston, built upon the ashes of Bombay, Kalki Divekar and her friends secretly build a resistance movement from within British rule, balancing survival and rebellion as they navigate personal losses, shifting alliances and the high stakes of fighting for their city.

Chef Thuy Diem Pham challenges and breaks down the misconception that Vietnamese food is too complex to cook at home. Featuring simple, everyday recipes, this cookbook provides approachable techniques for meals using a single pan or pot. 

Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity and father-son relationships.

Sashimi, a fish-creature, sneaks into elementary school to fit in. While avoiding being caught as the legendary "Beast of Barnacle Bay," he befriends a boy named Joey and navigates school life.

Alchemist Helena Marino, a prisoner with amnesia, fights to survive in a necromancy-ridden world as the ruthless High Reeve attempts to unearth the vital secrets hidden within her missing memories.

Two lost souls who board The Elsewhere Express, a magical, dream-built train. Aboard, they must confront their grief, heal their personal trauma and hunt down a sinister stowaway threatening to destroy the train.

Cat Li lands her dream job writing love storylines for the next big thing in games only after boss Andi Zhang, who hates happily-ever-afters, grudgingly gives Cat a chance, but when Cat discovers a plot to destroy Andi's career, they must find a way to work together before it's game over.

George Takei recounts his family's forced removal from California to U.S. incarceration camps, highlighting their resilience amid injustice.

This book details the author's experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the choices his family made in the face of institutionalized racism.

After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, 10-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism and the pressures of running a household.

After her brother dies unexpectedly and her family is uprooted once again during her senior year, Stella Chen feels lost and alone, but a trip up the California coast to look at college possibilities with an estranged childhood friend brings a spark back to her life and a glimpse at the future.

In the struggling town of East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai is saved from despair by Grazina, an elderly widow with dementia, forging an unexpected bond that reshapes their lives and reveals dynamics of love, memory and resilience on the margins of society.

The author, Kai Naima Williams-- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama-- chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism.

Twelve-year-old Eugenia Wang, who has never celebrated her birthday on April 4 due to her mom's superstition, starts to question whether she is cursed when troubling visions of doom begin to surface as she approaches her 13th birthday.