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Celebrate Asian Heritage Month!
A booklist for young kids celebrating Asian stories and authors.
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- The Mendoza family loves their traditional Filipino nipa hut, and it’s always there for them. But when a tropical storm is headed their way, their bond and preparations will face a real challenge.
- Tida can hardly contain her excitement: it's Songkran Day! She waits patiently all year long to celebrate the Thai New Year, when she finally gets to cook a special meal with her family, visit the temple, and join in the countrywide water fest.
- For Pong, who was born in Namwon Prison, the magical lights in Chattana represent freedom, and he dreams of the day he will be able to walk among them. But when Pong escapes from prison, he realizes that the world outside is no fairer than the one…
- Hana is at school when the devastating tsunami sweeps over Japan. But when the dark wave finally returns to the ocean, it has taken more than Hana could have ever imagined.
- When third-grader Amina's family hits hard times, and her dad has been gone working more, she is determined to help her family out. Using her math skills, she develops a new formula. Find a way to make groceries cheaper? + make money (how) + what…
- Lunar New Year is coming up, and Sunny is stuck wearing hand-me-downs to the party AGAIN. Just once Sunny wants to wear something that's so her and not so one of her sisters! Can Sunny uphold the Lao Family Way while also staying true to herself?…
- It’s hard being a professional chef, helping to run a motel, and being a regular kid! And now that Mia Tang is officially his girlfriend, Jason’s life has reached a whole new level of exciting―and terrifying! After all, Mia is amazing, and Jason is…
- When Ping and Grandpa bring a tangerine tree home for Lunar New Year, Ping decides to make the perfect pot to go with it. But making a pot is hard. With Grandpa's encouragement, she tries again and again to get it just right. The first is too…
- Celebrate the Horse (2026) in your life with this fun board book series introducing kids to each zodiac sign through positive personality traits and adorable animal characters.
- One morning, a young Iranian boy is woken up early by his grandmother. It’s time to make a new rug for the family. Together, they wash and dye the wool. When it’s time to knot the threads, the young boy grows nervous. He wants to make it perfect.…
- What’s a girl to do when she can’t be in as much control as she’d like to be? Well, good thing Ping-Ping is a wiz at taekwondo—she’s learning how to kick her frustrations away, and there’s almost nothing she can’t master if she puts her mind to it.
- Why can’t Aisha go on colorful, faraway vacations like her friends? Every year on vacation, Aisha and her parents take the same trip from their home in Jakarta to Grandma’s village in the countryside. This year, Aisha wants to see something…
- Eunny and Mama notice the beauty of an ordinary day, reminding us to stop and appreciate the beauty all around us in our daily routine.
- When Mina invites friends over, she is embarrassed by the Korean tradition of removing shoes before entering a home. Mina gathers her friends to explain that she lives in a no-shoes house. To her surprise, Mina finds out that her friends have…
- Rumi, Mira, and Zoey are pop stars by day and hunters by night! Meet them along with Saja Boys, the hottest new demon-boy band on the scene, Derpy Tiger, Sussie, and more beloved characters from KPop Demon Hunters.
- Eager to share the celebration of Choseok - the biggest Korean holiday of the year - Su-Jin invites her friends Maddy and Keisha to help Halmoni get ready.
- Every night, a girl must help her dad, whose English is not as good as hers, on his route delivering Chinese take-out food. She hates doing this, though. Why can't her family be normal like everyone else’s?
- Discover how a young Chinese girl and her family find the perfect name for her sister after she is born
- On a trip to the market, Nanu gets a cup of chai. But before he can take a drink, his granddaughter stops him just in time. STOP! There's a FLY in that chai! Thus begins an epic battle between Nanu and the fly: who loves chai more??
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