Members of a Hmong family flee war and make their way from a refugee camp to a life in a new country. The story unfolds through the eyes of 12-year old Little Cricket, who helps her family persevere through their ordeal.

This 2005 Newbery Award winner, tells the story of two sisters, Katie and her older sister, Lynn, whom Katie worships. Both girls have trouble adjusting when their parents move the family from Iowa to a small town in rural Georgia, where they are among only 31 Japanese-Americans.

A Chinese immigrant family builds a flying machine in this prize winning historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco.

A young boy listens to the story of his forbearers; two brothers who came to the United States in 1865 to work building the transcontinental railroad. Older readers will gain an appreciation of this powerful chapter in American history.

Written from the perspective of a twelve-year-old boy interned in a camp for Japanese American’s during World War II. One of the popular “Dear America” series.

Biographical sketches of notable Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans, from the nineteenth century up to the present.

American-born Delman is American-born and descended from the Bene Israel, an ancient community of Indian Jews; this is her story of growing up between cultures.

Princess Ka’iulani, who fought for Hawaiian independence, is one of Hawaii’s most beloved historical figures. This accessible biography uses material from drawn form journals and letters.

These 29 stories offer a rich and diverse portrait of Filipino youth coming of age in the United States.

Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American.

Antique dealer and sleuth Rei Shimura is back. Readers will enjoy an action packed mystery, as well as detail on Japanese art and history.

The stories in this Pulitzer Prize winning collection, depict many aspects of the East Indian immigrant experience, with sensitivity and humor.

Case studies on many of the major political events of the last century affecting Asian Americans are analyzed in the context of their implications for Asian Americans in the U.S.

Deeply held spiritual beliefs clash with Western attitudes towards health care. A Hmong family struggles to care for a child with a seizure disorder.

Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times