Asians in America : a bibliography of materials by Asian-Americans

Materials in Print-handicapped Formats from the Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library

Adler, Carole S.
Youn Hee & me
RC 42447
Annotation: Three years ago, Caitlin's mother adopted Simon, a two-year-old Korean orphan. Now the family learns that Simon has a sister in Korea. Youn Hee is eleven like Caitlin, and Caitlin is eager to welcome her into the family. When tiny Youn Hee arrives, she isn't very happy, and she doesn't seem to like Caitlin at all. Her main concern is that Simon has not been disciplined properly, and she sets out to correct that. For grades 3-6.

American dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices
RC 39409
Annotation: An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readers.

American eyes: new Asian-American short stories for young adults
RC 43701 / BR 10180
Annotation: Ten short stories that address aspects of the Asian American experience and touch upon such themes as alienation, cultural identity, and generational differences. In "Blonde" an Asian American girl yearns to be blonde like her Barbie doll. For junior and senior high readers.

And justice for all: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps
RC 21716
Annotation: Accounts by thirty Japanese-Americans who describe the horrors and the humiliation of being rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps during World War II. Although the Japanese-American community was portrayed as a nest of spies and saboteurs, not one Japanese-American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities.

Arlen, Michael J.
Passage to Ararat
RC 09242
Annotation: A candid, personal account of the American author's search for the Armenian heritage denied him by his Anglo-Armenian father. Beginning at Mt. Ararat, Arlen journeys to Soviet Armenia.

Asayesh, Gelareh.
Saffron sky: a life between Iran and America
RC 51185
Annotation: The reminiscences of a young woman caught between two cultures, recorded as she travels back and forth trying to assimilate the best of both worlds. She describes an immigrant's feelings of alienation and nostalgia but seeks to resolve her ambivalence by marrying an American and starting a bicultural family. 1999.

Bahrampour, Tara.
To see and see again: a life in Iran and America
RC 49409
Annotation: Memoir of the daughter of an American mother and Iranian father. Describes her bicultural background and upbringing: moving to Iran at age three and having to readjust to America at eleven. Through her trips and family connections, she is able to examine living conditions and customs in Iran before and after the revolution.

Blia Xiong.
Nine-in-one, Grr! Grr!: a folktale from the Hmong people
RC 33740
Annotation: Long, long ago, there lived the first tiger. She and her mate had no babies, and the lonely tiger worried about the future. So Tiger traveled to see the great god Shao, who promised that she would have nine cubs each year. But Bird came up with a clever plan to prevent the land from being overrun by tigers. For preschool-grade 2.

Blochman, Lawrence Goldtree, 1900-
Clues for Dr. Coffee; a second casebook.
RC 24955
Annotation: In these ten stories of scientific crime detection, the police of Northbank receive invaluable aid from the chief pathologist of the local hospital and his assistant, Dr. Mookerji.

Bode, Janet.
New kids on the block: oral histories of immigrant teens
RC 36208
Annotation: In the 1990s ninety-five percent of U.S. immigrants come from Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. Eleven teenage immigrants--some from war-torn countries, some who are illegal--share their experiences of being uprooted and of adjusting to life in the United States. For junior and senior high readers.

Bowers, Terrell L.
The secret of Snake Canyon
RC 37949
Annotation: Reese Corbett, deputy marshal out of Sacramento, is put on the case of missing Chinese immigrants--hundreds of them. Not knowing the language, Corbett is told to enlist the help of Alley Cat, a half-white, half-Chinese, orphaned daughter of a "joy girl." But evil Chinese lord Hoy Quan has other plans for the young woman. Dismayed to learn that Cat has been kidnapped, Corbett sets out on the still-warm trail. Violence.

Breck, Vivian.
The two worlds of Noriko
BRA04769
Annotation: A Japanese-American girl has to decide whether to marry a Japanese farmer and accept a completely alien way of life, or disobey her parents by refusing to do so. For grades 6-9.

Brox, Jane, 1956-
Five thousand days like this one: an American family history
RC 49980
Annotation: The author depicts the lives of her parents and Lebanese immigrant grandparents, who worked as textile mill laborers before settling down on a hardscrabble farm in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts. She wistfully reflects on the suffering and uncertainties of their harsh existence. 1999.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
The hidden flower.
RC 10849 / FD 10849 / BRA00008
Annotation: Love story between a beautiful daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a dashing American officer. Back home in the United States, he discovers his bride to be a stranger who is looked upon with disfavor.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Kinfolk
BRA 08682
Annotation: Reared in New York City, the children of a distinguished Chinese scholar return to their native China. The elder brother sacrifices a promising career in America and his love for Lili Li to serve his countrymen. His sister returns to Peiping where she marries an American soldier.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Letter from Peking
BRA 03252
Annotation: The American wife of a half-Chinese professor receives a letter from her husband in Peking saying that he has taken a Chinese wife. In her home in Vermont, Elizabeth and her son face the situation. She goes on with her life, thinking of her love for him and his for her, until the news of his death reaches her.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
BR 00822
Annotation: Matthew, a homeless 11-year-old, assumes responsibility for three younger boys who have also been abandoned by their Korean mothers and American soldier fathers. For grades 4-6.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
The new year; a novel.
RC 13307
Annotation: Kim, the half-Korean twelve-year-old son of Christopher Winters, is brought to this country and taken in by Chris and his understanding wife. Chris, who is campaigning for the governorship of Pennsylvania, causes a public stir when he introduces his son at a New Year's Eve party.

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
The three daughters of Madame Liang ; a novel.
RD 06743 / RC 43147
Annotation: The story of China is portrayed through the eyes of a Shanghai restaurant owner, Madame Liang. She sends her three daughters to America to be educated and they become torn between China and America. Their emotional and patriotic conflicts frame a story of turbulence and drama.

Caputo, Philip.
Equation for evil: a novel
RC 42683
Annotation: In California, Duane Boggs opens fire on a school bus full of Asian American children and then kills himself. Special agent Gabriel Chin is assigned to assist psychiatrist Leander Heartwood in performing a psychiatric autopsy on Boggs to determine if the slaying was driven by racism, or something else. They soon realize the strong probability of a mastermind behind Boggs. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex.

Carling, Amelia Lau
Mama and Papa have a store
BRW 073
Annotation: A small girl describes a day in her family's Chinese store in Guatemala City. Americas Award. Grades K-3. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Carroll, Lenore, 1939-
One hundred girls' mother
RC 52725
Annotation: San Francisco, 1895. Thomasina McIntyre commits one year of service to the Presbyterian Occidental Mission. At twenty-six, she goes on her first raid of a bordello to rescue a young Chinese woman from prostitution. Thereafter, aiding Chinese immigrants and teaching them Christianity become Thomasina's lifework. Some descriptions of sex. 1998.

Cavanna, Betty, 1909-
Jenny Kimura
BR 00272
Annotation: A Japanese-American girl comes from Tokyo to Kansas City to visit her grandmother and finds that she is not accepted in the American community, but during a visit to Cape Cod she meets two boys who help alleviate the hurt of prejudice and rejection. For grades 6-9.

Chang, Lan Samantha.
Hunger, a novella: and stories
RC 47737 / BR 12051
Annotation: A novella and five short stories revealing stresses within the family when Chinese immigrants confront cultural difficulties in America. In the title piece, a frustrated musician is determined that one of his daughters will have a musical career even at the expense of a loving home. Banta Award winner.

Chen, Da, 1962-
Colors of the mountain
RC 51314
Annotation: Born in southern China in 1962, the now-American author describes growing up in a once-prominent family that fell out of favor under the Mao regime. When citizens were unexpectedly allowed to compete for college acceptance, the sixteen-year-old truant and his farmer brother studied nonstop for months. Some strong language. 1999.

Chin, Frank, 1940-
Donald Duk: a novel
RC 34553
Annotation: Twelve-year-old Donald Duk hates his cartoon name and his Chinese-American heritage, preferring to envision himself as the tap-dancing Fred Astaire. As Chinese New Year approaches, with constant reminders of his culture, Donald dreams about his ancestors working on the railroads. The truths he learns from the dreams and his father's lectures give Donald a history very different from the one taught in his private school. For high school and older readers.

Choi, Sook Nyul.
Gathering of pearls
RC 39914
Annotation: In a sequel to Echoes of the White Giraffe (RC 39909), nineteen-year-old Sookan leaves Korea to study in America. She enjoys her new life and friends, especially fun-loving roommate Ellen, but Sookan feels too responsible to her family to spend much time on the lighter side of college life. Freshman year is not easy, but Sookan learns many lessons well. For grades 5-8 and older readers.

Choi, Susan, 1969-
The foreign student: a novel
BR 12262
Annotation: In 1955 South Korean student Chang Ahn, called Chuck, arrives in Sewanee, Tennessee, to attend the university. He is befriended by a local woman, Katherine Monroe. As their friendship slowly turns to romance, flashbacks tell of Chuck's experience in war-torn Seoul and Katherine's relationship since girlhood with an older professor. Explicit descriptions of sex.

Choy, Wayson, 1939-
The jade peony: a novel
RC 46958
Annotation: Story of a Chinese immigrant family living in Vancouver in the early 1940s told in the voices of the daughter and two younger sons. The matriarchal grandmother, Poh-Poh, tries to impart Chinese traditions and values to the grandchildren, who want to assimilate. Some strong language. Canadian Trillium Award Winner.

Christopher, Matt.
Shortstop from Tokyo
BR 03262
Annotation: Stogie Crane is very bitter when Sam Suzuki arrives from Japan and immediately takes over the shortstop position that Stogie had his heart set on. For grades 3-5.

Coerr, Eleanor.
Chang's paper pony
RC 29557 / BR 07743
Annotation: Chang and Grandpa Li live in a California Gold Rush town during the 1850s where Grandpa is a cook at the hotel. Lonely and often teased by the miners, Chang longs for a pony. He tries panning for gold, with Big Pete's help. Then, while sweeping Big Pete's cabin, he finds gold in the cracks between the floor and gets a very special reward. Easy reading for grades 2-4. An I can read book. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Crew, Linda
Children of the river
RC 32662
Annotation: The Cambodian-American experience is conveyed through the story of Sundara, now seventeen, who flees with her aunt's family in the mid-1970s from the terror of the Khmer Rouge to a small Oregon town. She finds herself torn between family traditions and the new culture's demands. Sundara comes to accept that although she must adapt, she doesn't have to give up her heritage in order to be American. For junior and senior high readers.

Crost, Lyn.
Honor by fire: Japanese Americans at war in Europe and the Pacific
RC 41457
Annotation: A former war correspondent's account of the Japanese-American men, or nisei, who volunteered for military service during World War II. Crost portrays the brave soldiers who had to fight prejudice on the home front before they were allowed to join the combat forces in Europe and the military intelligence service in the Pacific.

Cunningham, E. V.
The case of the kidnapped angel a Masao Masuto mystery
RC 18807
Annotation: Detective Masao Masuto gets entangled in the seamy underside of Beverly Hills glitter when he is assigned to investigate the kidnapping of a Hollywood sex goddess.

Cunningham, E. V.
The case of the murdered Mackenzie: a Masao Masuto mystery
RC 22618
Annotation: Somebody leaves a corpse in a Beverly Hills bathtub and nobody, not even the police, knows who the dead man is. Only Masao Masuto, with his Zen-like thinking, can puzzle out the mystery of the dead man's identity. Masuto's next trick is to find the murderer before the murderer finds him. Some strong language.

Cunningham, E. V.
The case of the one-penny orange: a Masao Masuto mystery
RD 15491
Annotation: A Japanese-American Beverly Hills police detective investigates the murder of a rare stamp dealer. The one-penny orange, a famous stamp worth a half million dollars, leads a trail back to World War II and the Gestapo. Some strong language.

Cunningham, E. V.
The case of the poisoned eclairs: a Masao Masuto mystery
RD 14127
Annotation: Because the women in Laura Crombie's bridge group are dieting, they refuse the pastry that is delivered anonymously to her house. But Ana Fortez, Laura's maid, takes the eclairs home and by morning is dead of botulism. When two more bodies are found, Masuto, a brilliant, enigmatic Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force, is put on the case. Some strong language.

Daley, Robert.
Year of the dragon: a novel
RC 17793
Annotation: Novel about crime in New York City's Chinatown today with its old rulers, youth gangs, and a Chinese out from Hong Kong trying to take over the drug empire from the Italian Mafia. A feud to the death develops between two men: police captain Powers, who knows he is hated by his superiors, and Koy, once a Hong Kong cop himself. Some strong language. Violence.

Davies, Peter Ho, 1966-
Equal love: stories
RC 51282
Annotation: A dozen stories about the bonds of family ties. In "The Next Life" Lim, a young Chinese American and dutiful son, hires professional mourners to keep vigil with his father's casket. Joining them in a high stakes poker game, Lim surprises all with his change of luck. Some strong language. 2000.

Derbyshire, John.
Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a dream.
RC 43850
Annotation: Chai is living the good life with his wife, Ding, and daughter, Hetty, in suburban New York, having survived a difficult time as a Red Guard in China during the Great Cultural Revolution. Chai undergoes a midlife crisis, however, when a former lover reappears, and Ding must scheme to bring back her wayward husband.

Desai, Anita, 1937-
Diamond dust: stories
BR 13325
Annotation: Nine tales by the acclaimed author, set in her homeland of India and in New England, Britain, and Mexico. In the title piece Mrs. Das exclaims that her husband's dog, Diamond, will kill her one day with his rambunctious behavior. But she is not the one who dies. Some strong language. 2000.

Desai, Anita, 1937-
Fasting, feasting
RC 51278
Annotation: Through details about the daily rituals of meals, the lives of two families, in India and America, are revealed. Part one focuses on the blighted life of Uma, a prisoner of her Indian family's conventions; part two deals with the experiences of her brother Arun among well-to-do New England suburbanites. 1999. "Booker Prize finalist."

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-
Sister of my heart
RC 52038
Annotation: Soulmates Sudha and Anju are cousins raised in the same Calcutta household by their widowed mothers. Beautiful Sudha is burdened by family secrets, while ambitious Anju wants an education. But both are forced by economics into arranged marriages. Eventually they reunite in America. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories
RC (IN PROCESS)
Annotation: Stories of East Indians in America.

Dixon, Paige.
Promises to keep
RC 10902
Annotation: Charles Miller, a high school junior, has mixed feelings about Lon, his orphaned half-Vietnamese cousin who comes to live with the family. Lon encounters envy, prejudice, hate, and violence in a New England town that prides itself on its decency and honor. For junior and senior high readers.

Duus, Masayo, 1938-
Tokyo Rose, orphan of the Pacific
RC 16581
Annotation: Iva Toguri, stranded in Japan by World War II, takes a job there although she wanted to return to her family in California. After the war the U.S. government tried her as Tokyo Rose, the temptress with the sultry voice who lured GIs to desert their posts on the Pacific battlefront. She served five years in jail, but the author believes she is innocent.

East to America: Korean American life stories
RC 42383
Annotation: Interviews with thirty-eight Korean Americans, including a journalist, monk, family counselor, policeman, seamstress, marketing executive, hairstylist, and women's rights activist. The professors offer Korean American perspectives on history, identity, and community. Some strong language.

Ellis, Sarah.
Next-door neighbors
RC 35436
Annotation: Moving is never easy. It means a new school, new kids, and for Peggy, the youngest daughter of a minister, it means a new church. She soon becomes friends with Sing, the Chinese gardener and caretaker for Mrs. Manning, the rich, elderly widow who lives next door. George, the son of a refugee janitor, wants to become her friend, but she rejects him. They are drawn together, however, when Sing is shockingly mistreated by Mrs. Manning. For grades 4-7.

Estes, Eleanor, 1906-
The lost umbrella of Kim Chu
RC 13338
Annotation: A young Chinese-American girl borrows her father's prized umbrella with the secret compartment in its handle, only to have it stolen from the library. The mystery of the lost umbrella leads the girl on an adventuresome journey across New York City. A humorous tale for grades 3-6.

Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.
RC 45010
Annotation: Born in California of Laotian (Hmong) parents, Lia suffers from epileptic seizures that began at age three months. As traditional Hmong medicine is not available, Lia's parents take her to American doctors. Neither parental love nor the doctors' sense of duty can transcend the cultural barriers and misconceptions that complicate Lia's medical care. Bestseller.

Fairbank, John King, 1907-
Chinabound: a fifty-year memoir
RC 18075
Annotation: The man known as the father of American China studies recounts his personal and professional experiences as a humanist scholar dedicated to bringing the Chinese and American cultures closer together.

Festivals from far away
RCF 01777
Annotation: Describes ancient Buddhist festivals traditionally held at places of worship in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Some are held to honor ancestors and others to honor the gods of earth, sun, moon, and other aspects of nature. Narration begins with a brief life of Buddha and a description of his "Middle Way." Laotian language.

Fine, Peter Heath.
Night trains
BR 04688
Annotation: A black-comic caper about a railroad shipment of plutonium that is stolen by a band of Jesus freaks who are intent on helping God destroy sinful Las Vegas. Searching for the elusive railroad car is a Japanese-American field inspector, an FBI team, and a world-weary security officer. Some strong language.

Fleischman, Paul.
Seedfolks
RC 47065
Annotation: A Vietnamese girl plants lima beans and begins the transformation of a trash-filled vacant lot into a community garden. People of many nationalities join in and friendships develop among the gardeners. For grades 5-8.

Fong-Torres, Ben.
The rice room: growing up Chinese-American : from number two son to rock'n'roll
RC 40310
Annotation: Rolling Stone magazine writer and editor Fong-Torres tells of the lasting effect of growing up in California with Chinese parents and of the tragic killing of his parents' number one son. Although as an adult Fong-Torres needed an interpreter to discuss his parents' past with them, he realizes that he has no more escaped his past than his parents escaped China.

Four Champa trees.
KIT 062
Annotation: A traditional Laotian folktale told in English and Lao. Grades 3-6. PRINT/BRAILLE and cassette.

Friedman, Philip, 1944-
Grand jury: a novel
RC 43847
Annotation: In this sequel to Inadmissable Evidence (RC 36253), grand juror Susan Linwood senses something odd about the government's drug case against an elderly Chinese couple. Herself of Chinese descent, Linwood enlists the help of another juror to probe the matter privately. What they uncover imperils their very lives. Descriptions of sex. Bestseller.

Fuller, Elizabeth, 1946-
Nima: a Sherpa in Connecticut
BRA17789
Annotation: A young Sherpa guide afflicted with tuberculosis finds himself transported from the primitive slopes of the Himalayas to a bedroom in suburban Connecticut. There he quickly becomes glued to a color television set where he develops some novel ideas about, and fascination with, the Western world.

Gaan, Margaret.
Last moments of a world
RD 13023 \ BRA17222
Annotation: Reminiscences of life in Shanghai from the early 1920s to 1950, when the author and her mother, the only remaining members of a Euro-Chinese family, left for Hong Kong and eventually America. Includes portraits of her wacky family and their unscrupulous, but faithful, Chinese household staff.

Gaan, Margaret.
Little sister
RC 20053
Annotation: Novel set in 1925 portrays the effect of changing times upon one Chinese American family in Shanghai. The grandmother is the story's heroine. While her traditionally bound "Lily Feet" cripple her, it is her modern outlook on life that sustains the family.

Garland, Sherry.
The lotus seed
RC 39458
Annotation: For many centuries Vietnam was ruled by emperors. They were kept on as ceremonial heads after its conquest by France in the late 1800s, and the last emperor abdicated his throne in 1945 when a war of independence began. The narrator's grandmother saw the emperor cry and plucked a seed from a lotus pod in the imperial garden to remember him by. She would keep that seed and bring it to America with her. For grades 2-4.

Garland, Sherry.
Shadow of the dragon
RC 42420
Annotation: Danny Vo's family moved from Vietnam to America ten years ago when he was six, and he considers himself fully Americanized. Danny's older cousin Sang Le is just arriving in America to live with Danny's family. While Danny romances Tiffany Schultz, Sang Le falls in with the Vietnamese gang Danny has avoided. But it is Danny who is in danger when Tiffany's skinhead brother learns who she is dating. For junior and senior high readers.

Garrigue, Sheila.
The eternal spring of Mr. Ito
RC 24424
Annotation: During her evacuation to Canada, Sara Werren, a British teenager, befriends Mr. Ito and his Japanese-Canadian family. When Mr. Ito's family is sent to an internment camp, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Sara gets to know the cruelties of war and to understand the experiences of fear and prejudice. For junior and senior high readers.

Gay, Kathlyn.
The rainbow effect: interracial families
RC 28586
Annotation: The author interviews a wide range of "mixed" children from interracial and interethnic families, who speak candidly about prejudice, problems with dating, rejection by extended family members, community harassment, name calling, and the special problems of divorce and remarriage. Includes a list of resource organizations. For junior and senior high and older readers.

Gilson, Jamie.
Hello, my name is Scrambled Eggs
RC 23478
Annotation: Harvey's family is helping a family of Vietnamese refugees settle in town. He has big plans to "Americanize" twelve-year-old Tuan but finds that more difficult than he expected. For grades 5-7.

Goodsell, Jane.
Daniel Inouye
RC 13586
Annotation: Biography of the Japanese-American who became a war hero and the first Congressman from the state of Hawaii. For grades 3-5.

Hayslip, Le Ly.
Child of war, woman of peace
RC 40274
Annotation: In 1970 when Le Ly came to the United States with her two children to join her American husband, she discovered that the survival skills developed in the battlefields and black market of her native Vietnam did not count for much. She recounts her efforts to adjust to America and to reconcile the Vietnamese and American halves of her life. Sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (RC 31643).

Hayslip, Le Ly.
When heaven and earth changed places: a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace
RC 31643
Annotation: Le Ly, who grew up in central Vietnam, describes the suffering of a civilian trapped in the war's violence. Before coming to America, she worked as a Viet Cong courier, a black marketeer, and a hospital aide; was tortured by the South Vietnamese; and was sentenced to death by the Viet Cong. Violence and some strong language.

Heiderstadt, Dorothy.
Lois says aloha
BRA07062
Annotation: Lois Teramota, a Hawaiian girl of Japanese-American-Polynesian descent, shows her friend and schoolmate Gina Brown around the islands. They make other friends and discover the color and excitement of Hawaiian festivals and activities. For grades 6-9.

Hergesheimer, Joseph, 1880-1954.
Java Head
RC 18401
Annotation: Story of Salem in the days of the sailing vessels centers on the erratic sea-going son of a family of ship owners. He marries a Chinese lady, who brings all the refinements of her Manchu rank into an environment ill-adapted to appreciate her subtle character.

Hmong folk tales
RCF 01771
Annotation: Ten traditional Hmong folk tales including "The First Farmer," "The Woman and the Tiger," and "The Woodcutter, His Rooster, and His Wife." Bilingual title. Hmong language

Hò, Van Xuân Nhi, 1958-
Hôn em hanh phúc tàp truyèn
Annotation: Collection of eleven short stories by the contemporary Vietnamese author now living in California. Includes the stories "Feeble Happiness," "Something like a Desperate Feeling," and "The Last Memorial Sonnet." Vietnamese language.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki.
Farewell to Manzanar; a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment
RD 07551 / RC 43194
Annotation: An intimate look at the painful years during World War II when Mrs. Houston and her family were imprisoned in a California concentration camp for Japanese-Americans.

Houston, Velina Hasu
American Dreams
RCW 1068
Annotation: Touching radio play about an African-Native American soldier who brings his Japanese bride home after serving in World War II and Korea.

Houston, Velina Hasu
Tea
RCW 1077
Annotation: Five Japanese war brides are thrust into rural Kansas alongside their American G.I. husbands. When one commits suicide, the other four and her ghost gather for tea and testimony in this broadcast drama from National Public Radio.

Howard, Ellen.
Her own song
RC 30582
Annotation: Although Mellie knows she is adopted, she has not given much thought to her origins. Her adoptive mother is dead, and Mellie lives with her father and aunt. At times memories of the past drift in and out of her consciousness. When her father is injured and her aunt is out of town, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, a Chinese laundryman, who holds the key to information about Mellie's birth. For grades 5-8 and older readers.

Hoyt, Richard, 1941-
Japanese game
RC (IN PROCESS)
Annotation: U.S. Vice President Shive's daughter has been kidnapped and sold to Shoji Kobayashi, mob godfather and owner of a Japanese baseball team. The vice president hires ex-CIA assassin James Burlane to rescue his daughter. Hoyt's thriller explores Asian-American trade relations, white slavery, and the game of baseball as it is played in Japan. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex.

Hyde, Anthony, 1946-
Formosa straits: a novel
RC 45358
Annotation: Nick Lamp, an Asian American, is accused of murdering Chinese gangster and family friend, Cao Dai, in Taipei. On the run, Nick ends up in mainland China where he discovers secrets from his father's past that may guarantee him protection. Some strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex.

Ichioka, Yuji.
The Issei: the world of the first generation Japanese immigrants
RC 28579
Annotation: History of the Issei, first-generation Japanese immigrants to the U.S. Ichioka describes the obstacles imposed on these Eastern immigrants by the Japanese government, by American legal actions, and by the labor unions. He also recounts how the exclusionary American policies classed the Japanese as "aliens ineligible for citizenship.

Iida, Deborah, 1956-
Middle son
RC 44379
Annotation: The story of a Japanese family with three sons on a Hawaiian sugar plantation. The youngest son is given to childless relatives and the eldest boy drowns, leaving their mother distraught. As his mother lies dying, the middle son reveals the truth of his brother's death and the tragic consequences of custom and tradition.

Irons, Peter H., 1940-
Justice at war
RC 23346
Annotation: Historical account of the case histories of the constitutional challenges of four United States citizens to Roosevelt's executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their West Coast homes into internment camps.

Irwin, Hadley.
Kim / Kimi
RC 29930
Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Kim Andrews, a Japanese-American, feels like a misfit in her Iowa town despite the love of her mother and stepfather. She leaves for a visit to Sacramento, California, to find out about her Japanese father, who died before she was born, and to trace his family. She is shocked when she learns of the suffering of Japanese-Americans during World War II. For junior and senior high and older readers.

Jen, Gish.
Mona in the promised land
RC 44923
Annotation: In 1968, Helen and Ralph Chang, from Typical American (RC 34180), move the family to a liberal and posh suburb. They want the kids to be Americanized, but do not expect the wild turn of events funny and flippant Mona goes through. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Jen, Gish.
Typical American
RC 34180
Annotation: Ralph Chang, who came to America to study engineering, is alone and cut off from his homeland after the Communist takeover in 1948. By chance, he discovers his sister Theresa and her friend Helen in New York. He and Helen fall in love, marry, and, with Theresa, set up housekeeping. Their goal is to become typical Americans while retaining their Chinese values. But Ralph's greed soon changes matters. Some descriptions of sex.

Jen, Gish.
Who's Irish?: stories
RC 50166
Annotation: Eight short stories featuring Chinese American protagonists. In the title piece a Chinese grandmother is banned from her daughter's home after spanking her unruly Irish-Chinese granddaughter. In "Duncan in China" a Chinese American dropout moves to China to teach English but remains an outsider. 1999.

Kadohata, Cynthia.
The floating world
RC 32265
Annotation: A portrait of a Japanese American family in the 1950s driving through what Obasan (Grandmother) calls Ukiyo, "The floating world," a world of motels and gas stations. Twelve-year-old Olivia, her mother and stepfather, Charlie-O, her three brothers, and Obasan are on their way from the Pacific Northwest to Arkansas, to work on a chicken ranch. They are a point of stability in an otherwise unstable world.

Kadohata, Cynthia.
In the heart of the valley of love
RC 36855
Annotation: Francie, a nineteen-year-old Japanese-American woman, lives in Los Angeles in the year 2052, where violence and rioting are rampant, disease and pollution are common, gas and water are rationed, and people carry arms for survival. Francie drifts through this world passively, noting the social and moral decay with little thought of a better future. But new friends bring her a small measure of meaning, hope, and love. Some strong language.

Kang, Young Woo, 1944-
A light in my heart
RC 26603
Annotation: The story of Young Woo Kang, a Korean national who suffered the loss of his parents, his sister, and his eyesight in a period of four years from age eleven to fifteen. A victim of prejudice, he struggled for his rightful place in society and earned a doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh. A saga of personal determination coupled with a profound faith in God.

Keller, Nora Okja.
Comfort woman
RC 44684
Annotation: A Korean-American girl grows up in Hawaii with her mother, who is secretly haunted by memories of sexual enslavement as a "comfort woman" during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Outwardly she exhibits her trauma through embarrassing bouts with the spirit world. The daughter who loves and protects her learns the horrible truth only after her mother's death. Violence and descriptions of sex.

Kennedy, Richard.
The parrot and the thief
RC 09454
Annotation: A good-humored tale suggested by a Laotian legend. A wily parrot outwits the equally wily thief who steals him from his seafaring owner. For grades 2-5.

Kessler, Lauren.
Stubborn twig: three generations in the life of a Japanese-American family
RC 38054
Annotation: Joining his Issei brothers in 1904, young Masuo soon became Americanized. He sent for and married a childhood acquaintance, and became a prosperous businessman with a large family. But the treatment of the Issei and their families after Pearl Harbor destroyed Masuo's life. He eventually killed himself, leaving his children and grandchildren to struggle with his legacy.

Kherdian, David.
Asking the river.
RCW 348
Annotation: While trying to make it through elementary school in Racine, Wisconsin, a 13-year-old Armenian-American boy comes to terms with his heritage, his parents' expectations, and his own uncertainties. Grades 5-8.

Kherdian, David.
Finding home
RC 19565
Annotation: Continues the story of the author's mother, an Armenian orphan who sailed for America at sixteen to become a mail-order bride for an immigrant twice her age. Though she was ill-prepared for a new country and community and the pressures of her new family, she made a place for herself from the beginning. Sequel to "The Road from Home" (RC 16607). For high school and adult readers.

Kherdian, David.
The road from home: the story of an Armenian girl
RC 16607
Annotation: A biography of the author's mother, whose courage and hope enabled her to survive the holocaust the Turks inflicted upon the Armenians living in Turkey in 1915. Uprooted from her close-knit family and community, she endured incredible suffering until, at the age of sixteen, she left for America as a mail-order bride. For junior and senior high and adult readers.

Kherdian, David.
A song for Uncle Harry
RC 31543
Annotation: Pete, twelve, reminisces about his beloved Uncle Harry, who teaches him important lessons about life. Harry is an Armenian immigrant who is disabled from being gassed in World War I, when he served as a U.S. serviceman. Pete's recollections focus on the special times he has had with his uncle--riding in his model T, fishing in the country, carrying the news of Harry's sister's death, and eating chestnuts by the fire. For grades 4-7.

Kingston, Maxine Hong.
China men
RC 15783 / FD 15783
Annotation: The author of "The Woman Warrior" (RC 10485) records the stories of her Chinese patriarchal forebears, whose lives she reconstructs out of her imagination. Beginning with her great grandfathers, all of her male relatives journeyed, under unspeakable conditions, to the Golden Mountain (America), where they endured privations and inhuman working situations at the hands of the "white demons." Some strong language.

Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Tripmaster monkey: his fake book
RC 30660
Annotation: The story's hero, Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing, is much like Monkey, the saint-troublemaker of Chinese legend. He dreams of writing and producing "an enormous loud play that will awake an audience for us." Surrealistic word-play punctuates the dialogue. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Kingston, Maxine Hong.
The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
RC 10485 / RC 50624
Annotation: Girlhood recollections of a Chinese American in California, where her parents had settled and operated a laundry. Her mother's "talk-stories" filled the girl's head with mythic Chinese figures and traditions as she coped with daily life in America. Some strong language. National Book Critics Circle Award. 1976.

Kinkead, Gwen, 1951-
Chinatown: portrait of a closed society
RCW 109
Annotation: In the first book in fifty years to break the code of silence about New York's Chinatown, Gwen Kinkead offers an intimate portrait of one of the most insular and enigmatic communities in the world.

Kiyonaga, Bina Cady.
My spy : memoir of a CIA wife
BR 13209
Annotation: The Baltimore-born author describes her marriage to Joe Kiyonaga, a Japanese-American who worked for the CIA from 1949 until his death from cancer in 1977, and the overseas adventures provided by his career. She promised her husband on his deathbed that she would tell his story. 2000.

Kline, Suzy.
Song Lee and the hamster hunt
RC 48376
Annotation: Song Lee's hamster has been living in Room 2B for several weeks, but one morning the class discovers that Yi has escaped from his cage. Someone forgot to fasten the hook on the door. The teacher shows the group how to make posters asking for help in finding Yi. For grades K-3.

Kline, Suzy.
Song Lee in Room 2B
RC 39430
Annotation: Song Lee, who is in Miss Mackle's second-grade class with the infamous Horrible Harry, is clever and fun to be around. Afraid of public speaking, she devises an ingenious way to give an assigned speech. Song Lee also helps her friend Doug break his writer's block; and she shows everyone the importance of following instructions during a fire drill. For grades 2-4.

Kramer, Barbara.
Amy Tan, author of "The Joy Luck Club"
RC 44265
Annotation: Amy Tan is a Chinese American bestselling writer who grew up in California. This biography describes her own difficulty in accepting the heritage her parents brought with them from China, an experience shared by characters in her novels. Explains how she became an author of adult and children's fiction and describes the books. For grades 6-9.

Kroll, Virginia L.
Beginnings: how families come to be
RC 45686
Annotation: Six children ask their parents to tell them how they became families. Only one, Ruben, was born to his present parents; the other five are adoption stories that include an uncle who adopts his nephew when his sister dies, and a Korean baby who is brought to America and later joined by a baby brother from South America. For grades K-3.

Kwong, Peter.
Forbidden workers: illegal Chinese immigrants and America
RC (IN PROCESS)
Annotation: An expose of the billion-dollar enterprise involving illegal Chinese immigration to the United States. Explains the dimensions of the issue and its basis in the principle of supply and demand. Calls for stricter national labor standards to reduce the incentive for smuggling workers from other countries. 1997.

Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Interpreter of maladies: stories
RC 50087
Annotation: Nine tales of brief encounters with lasting effects, set in India and America. Each emphasizes cultural transition and loss. In the title piece, while American-born Mr. and Mrs. Das and their three young children are tourists in India, Mrs. Das confides a disquieting secret to their guide. Pulitzer Prize. Bestseller. 1999.

Lee, C. Y., 1917-
The flower drum song
RC 12753
Annotation: Story of life in San Francisco's Chinatown. The principal characters are the elderly scholarly Mr. Wang and his son, Wang Ta. Illustrates the struggle between old traditional Chinese ways and the modern American way of life.

Lee, Chang-rae.
A gesture life
RC 49558
Annotation: Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II. Some strong language. 1999.

Lee, Chang-rae.
Native speaker
RC 48919
Annotation: Korean American Henry Park, an industrial spy for an American company, finds his life in a shambles. His young son is dead, and his wife has left him. Assigned to get close to a rising Korean American politician, Park must do things he has long avoided: accept his roots, define his loyalties, and find his identity. Descriptions of sex.

Lee, Gus.
China boy: a novel
RC 35823
Annotation: As the only son of a Chinese aristocrat, Kai Ting's life could have been different. But because he lives in a poor 1950s San Francisco neighborhood, he has to grow up quickly. Life wasn't bad while his Chinese mother lived, but his stepmother is determined to Americanize him. Thus Kai spends his days outdoors, hanging out with streetwise kids and three ex-boxers at the YMCA who help him develop the confidence to stand up to others. Strong language.

Lee, Gus.
Honor & duty
RC 38550
Annotation: Lee continues his autobiographical fiction in this sequel to China Boy (RC 35823). In May 1964, Kai Ting is notified that he has been accepted to West Point. Kai sees his time at the academy as a chance to make his father proud of him. He learns to endure the pain of being Chinese-American during the Vietnam War, and to respect and obey the code of honor when he is offered the answers to a test in math--his hardest subject. Strong language and some violence.

Lee, Gus.
No physical evidence
RC 49002
Annotation: Asian American deputy district attorney Josh Jin is depressed since his daughter died, his wife left him, and he has been demoted. Jin is handed a case of child rape with no physical evidence to convict the accused. His emotional salvation becomes tied to saving the thirteen-year-old victim. Some violence and some strong language.

Lee, Gus.
Tiger's tail: a novel
RC 43644
Annotation: In 1974, Chinese American Captain Jackson Kan is ordered to the Korean demilitarized zone to find a missing army prosecutor. Kan liberates a hell-hole prison, deposes the power-mad commander, and defuses a plot to incite a war, all while dealing with his own problems as a Vietnam veteran and as a Chinese son. Strong language and violence.

Lee, Li-Young, 1957-
The winged seed: a remembrance
RC 45466
Annotation: A poet's reminiscences about his background, his family, and his wife. Dreams, incidents, and memories of family stories intermingle in Lee's stark autobiography. His Chinese parents endured many hardships in Indonesia, before they came to Pennsylvania when he was six.

Lee, Marie G.
Finding my voice
RC 37265
Annotation: Ellen Sung is sixteen, a senior, and the only Asian-American student in her school. She is also the sister of brilliant Michelle, who is at Harvard. The pressures on Ellen are great as she strives to be a dutiful daughter to her strict parents and an ordinary, fun-loving teenager. Her troubles are compounded by racial taunts, and the serious bigotry of Marsha, her rival on the gymnastics team. Some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers.

Lee, Marie G.
If it hadn't been for Yoon Jun
RC 40248
Annotation: Seventh-grader Alice Larsen is indifferent to her Korean ancestry. Adopted as a baby by a Minnesota family, she is a happy, popular cheerleader. When Yoon Jun Lee, a Korean immigrant new to the United States, begins attending Bainer Junior High, Alice thinks he's weird. Then he becomes her partner for International Day, and together they prepare a report on Korea, piquing Alice's interest in her heritage and in friendship with Yoon Jun. For grades 4-7.

Lee, Marie G.
Necessary roughness
BR 12549
Annotation: Korean-American teenager Chan Kim and his twin sister, Young, work hard to be assimilated into their new high school after their father moves the family from L.A. to rural Minnesota. Chan switches from soccer to football to gain acceptance, but then tragedy strikes the family. For junior and senior high readers.

Lee, Marie G.
Saying goodbye
RC 40654
Annotation: In this sequel to Finding My Voice (RC 37265), Ellen Sung is a freshman at Harvard. She learns to balance her desire to excel in her premed studies with her interest in writing, but racism creates a harder challenge. Will she betray her African American roommate by opposing an anti-Korean rap star? Some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers.

Lee, Sky.
Disappearing Moon Cafe
RC 35056
Annotation: A tale of four generations of the Wong women revolves around the issue of heirs. In 1986, Kae Ying Woo decides to explore her heritage. Moving between past and present, she focuses on Mui Lan, owner of the Disappearing Moon Cafe in Vancouver's Chinatown, who is concerned because her daughter-in-law has produced no son. As the story unfolds, Kae uncovers a legacy of guilt, fear, and lies. Some strong language.

Lee, Virginia Chin-lan.
The house that Tai Ming built
BRA 09179
Annotation: Tradition has been most important in the lives of several generations of this Chinese-American family living in San Francisco until the daughter falls in love with a Caucasian at the end of World War II.

Levine, Ellen.
I hate English!
RC 31455
Annotation: When Mei Mei (pronounced May May) moves to New York from Hong Kong, she hates English. It's such a lonely language--each letter stands alone, and sometimes the letters fight each other--not like Chinese. And although she understands everything that happens in school in English, she refuses to speak it. That is, until Nancy, her English teacher, comes up with a surprising way to make her speak English--and Chinese. For grades 2-4.

Lin, Yutang, 1895-1976.
Chinatown family: a novel
BRX 00698
Annotation: This story shows how a Chinese laundryman's family, transplanted from its native village, learns to live the American way in New York City.

Liu, Aimee.
Face
RC 40124
Annotation: Red-haired Maibelle Chung grew up in New York's Chinatown. Her white mother coached her to take up the photojournalism career that her Chinese father had abandoned. Instead, Maibelle became a flight attendant. Now she has returned to New York to face her parents' history and the forgotten horrors behind her recurring nightmares. And, coaxed by a childhood friend, Maibelle turns back to photography. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Liu, Eric.
The accidental Asian: notes of a native speaker
RC 47838
Annotation: Journalist and former Clinton speech writer, Liu, twenty-nine, examines his and others' attitudes about being Asian. A second-generation Chinese American or ABC (American-born Chinese), Liu had a suburban middle-class upbringing and married a woman of Scottish, Irish, and Jewish descent. He explores his ambivalence about choosing to assimilate or embrace his cultural heritage.

Lobo-Cobb, Angela, ed.
A confluence of colors: the first anthology of Wisconsin minority poets.
RCW 5292
Annotation: Poems by Native American, Asian-American, African-American and Hispanic poets from Wisconsin.

Lord, Bette Bao.
In the year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
RC 23538 / BR 07295
Annotation: A young Chinese girl, "Shirley Temple Wong," comes to live in the United States in 1947. She has a difficult time making friends in her Brooklyn neighborhood until she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. For grades 4-6.

Lord, Bette Bao.
Legacies: a Chinese mosaic
RC 31174
Annotation: Bette Bao left Shanghai with her parents in 1946. She attended school in Brooklyn and later married a classmate from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy. After three and a half years as wife of the U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China, she tells the story of her own roots and the stories of many who fear the return of the mindless political struggles of the past. Bestseller.

Louie, David Wong, 1954-
The barbarians are coming: a novel
RC 51915
Annotation: The author of Pangs of Love: Stories (RC 34554) continues the topic of second-generation Chinese Americans living between two cultures. Twenty-six-year-old French chef Sterling Lung marries his Jewish girlfriend and has two children before he understands his ailing immigrant father. Some strong language. 2000.

Louie, David Wong, 1954-
Pangs of love: stories
RC 34554
Annotation: Louie's stories depict the twentieth-century Asian-American experience. The title selection illustrates a second-generation Chinese-American's frustration with his mother's refusal to learn English and his own inability to speak more than rudimentary Cantonese. Other stories explore failed relationships between Asian and white Americans. Descriptions of sex. "Los Angeles Times" Book Award.

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum.
Wooden fish songs.
RC 43902
Annotation: Three women recount stories about the life of Chinese immigrant and botanist Lue Gim Gong, whose 1870s experiments in hybridization boosted the Florida citrus industry. Recounts his life of privation prior to emigrating, his education in America, and the alienation that he felt in spite of his professional success.

The Magic Crossbow
KIT 064
Annotation: A traditional Vietnamese folktale told in English and Vietnamese. Grades 3-6. PRINT/BRAILLE and cassette.

Mailer, Norris Church.
Windchill summer: a novel
RC 52210
Annotation: Sweet Valley, Arkansas; 1969. College student Cherry spends a summer working in the pickle plant with her best friend, Baby, a Filipino. Vietnam veterans are returning and drugs and hippies are becoming common. Cherry's life changes, however, when former classmate Carlene is murdered. Some descriptions of sex. 2000.

Malone, Mary.
Maya Lin: architect and artist
RC 43443
Annotation: Chronicles the life of Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also known as "the Wall." Explains her intentions as expressed in the Wall's design and recounts the early controversy over its unconventional form as a war memorial. Recounts her life and career accomplishments. For grades 4-7.

Mar, M. Elaine, 1966-
Paper daughter: a memoir
BR 12657
Annotation: Born in southern China in 1966, the author moved to Hong Kong and then, at five, to Denver with her family to live with an aunt. Before leaving for Harvard, Mar struggled with classmates' cruelty and having to live within two cultures. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1999.

Martin, Ann M., 1955-
Yours turly, Shirley
RC 32564
Annotation: Fourth-grader Shirley Basini has a poor self-image due largely to her dyslexia. She copes with her reading difficulties by being the class clown, but her teacher is not impressed and makes it clear that she must either improve or be held back. When her parents adopt an eight-year-old Vietnamese girl, Shirley's role as a big sister helps her gain confidence, until she becomes resentful of Jackie's reading skills. For grades 3-6.

Masumoto, David Mas.
Epitaph for a peach: four seasons on my family farm
BR 10551
Annotation: A third-generation Japanese American peach and grape farmer in California has an orchard of Sun Crest peaches that he considers to be "the last remaining truly juicy peaches." Fragile and light in color, the peaches are not selling well. Masumoto details the year in which he gives his favorite crop another chance using organic farming methods.

Masumoto, David Mas.
Harvest son: planting roots in American soil
BR 12668
Annotation: Sequel to Epitaph for a Peach (BR 10551). Japanese American farmer describes life and work on his family's orchard in California's Central Valley. Explores his cultural heritage by visiting his ancestral village in Japan and by recounting the arduous existence of his forebears, including those interned during World War II. 1998.

Mehta, Ved, 1934-
Face to face
RC 16597
Annotation: The highly successful author who has been blind since the age of three, tells what it was like to grow up in a cultured, but not wealthy, Hindu family in the Punjab, at Rawalpindi, Simla, and Bombay. He describes the terror of the Muslim-Hindu riots at Lahore during partition and his college life in the United States.

Mehta, Ved, 1934-
Sound-shadows of the New World
BR 06504 / RD 24156
Annotation: Continuing the story of his life, Mehta recounts his three years in Little Rock attending the Arkansas School for the Blind, a setting that felt as alien to his Hindu sensibilities as did his life in India to Western readers. Focuses on his adolescent yearnings, gradual acculturation, and his steadfast determination to get an education.

Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-
Hawaii
RC 10504 / RC 37111 / BRA03104
Annotation: Four stories in one, combining fiction and history in a panoramic view of the migrations to and development of Hawaii up to its statehood. One story traces the eleventh-century settlers from Polynesia; another follows a group of American missionaries that includes the zealous Abner Hale and his long-suffering wife; and the other two stories trace the migrations of Chinese and Japanese settlers. Some strong language and some violence.

Morey, Janet.
Famous Asian Americans
RC 37064
Annotation: Brief biographies of fourteen twentieth-century Asian Americans who came, or whose families came, from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, countries that have provided a large proportion of Asian immigrants to the United States. Included are journalist Connie Chung, architect I.M. Pei, inventor An Wang, and children's author Jose Aruego. For grades 3-6 and older readers.

Mori, Kyoko.
The dream of water: a memoir
RC 43518
Annotation: Mori tells how she fled Japan for America when she was twenty, escaping cruel treatment by her father and harsh memories of the place where her mother committed suicide. Thirteen years later, she returns to explore her homeland, reunites with relatives, and comes to terms with her tortured relationship with her father.

Mori, Kyoko.
Polite lies: on being a woman caught between cultures
RCW 236
Annotation: Autobiography of a Japanese-American college professor in Wisconsin.

Mori, Kyoko.
Shizuko's daughter
RC 42155
Annotation: Yuki, a twelve-year-old Japanese girl, returns home to find her mother lifeless on the floor. A note explains that although her mother has killed herself, she loves Yuki very much, and this was for the best. The next several years are lonely for Yuki, but she finds comfort in art, which her mother had shared with her. She comes to understand her mother's death and begins planning for her own future. For junior and senior high readers.

The Mountain of the Men and the Mountain of the Women.
KIT 065
Annotation: A traditional Cambodian folktale told in English and Khmer. Grades 3-6. PRINT/BRAILLE and cassette.

Mueller, Marnie.
The climate of the country: a novel
RC 50639
Annotation: 1940s. Denton Jordan, a conscientious objector, and his Jewish wife, Esther, live at the Tule Lake Relocation Camp for Japanese in northern California. Trouble brews both within the camp and in their marriage, escalating until life-alterating choices are made. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 1999.

Mukherjee, Bharati.
Jasmine
RC 40308
Annotation: Young Jyoti, called Jasmine, plans to move with her new husband, Prakash, from their Indian village to a Florida university. Prakash is killed and Jasmine flees to the United States to become a caregiver for a professor's daughter in New York. When she spots her husband's assassin, a fearful Jasmine moves to Iowa, unaware that a complex life awaits her there, too. Strong language, descriptions of sex, and some violence.

Mukherjee, Bharati.
The middleman, and other stories.
RC 29576
Annotation: These stories focus on contemporary immigrant experiences in America. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Mukherjee, Bharati.
The tiger's daughter
BR 02057
Annotation: The daughter of high caste Bengali Tiger Banerjee is educated at Vassar and marries an American. Seven years later she returns to Calcutta for a visit with her family and experiences cultural shock. A portrayal of contrasts between East and West.

Na, An, 1972-
A step from heaven
RC (IN PROCESS)
Annotation: Young Ju and her parents move to California from Korea when she is small. They struggle with a strange language and culture, but Young Ju becomes a top student. Over the years her father becomes more and more abusive. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2001.

Naff, Alixa.
The Arab Americans
RC 40296
Annotation: The Arabs comprise several different populations who live in the Middle East and North Africa and share a common background. Most practice Islam. There are an estimated two million Arab Americans. Most are descendants of people who came to the United States between 1880 and 1940 and after World War II. Discusses the Arab world; factors leading to emigration; and Arab Americans as an ethnic group. For grades 6-9 and older readers.

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
A turn in the South
RC 29348
Annotation: Reveals America's Deep South through the author's eyes and also as southerners see themselves. The author talks with politicians, writers, civil rights workers, country musicians, business leaders, and even a self-described redneck, and portrays a culture and a people sustained, separated, and troubled by their history. Some strong language.

Namioka, Lensey.
April and the Dragon Lady
BR 10659
Annotation: When April Chen is a junior in a Seattle high school, she begins dating Steve even though she knows her grandmother won't approve of a white boyfriend. Grandma's Chinese ways are tiresome, especially when she dotes on April's brother and widowed father and expects April to serve them all. When April's father decides to remarry and April begins to make plans for college, Grandma plots to stop them. For junior and senior high readers.

Namioka, Lensey.
Ties that bind, ties that break: a novel
RC 51160
Annotation: Ailin's life takes a turn when she defies Chinese tradition by refusing to have her feet bound. When Ailin is forced to leave school upon the death of her progressive father, she shocks her family by migrating to San Francisco with American missionaries. For grades 6-9. 1999.

Namioka, Lensey.
Yang the eldest and his odd jobs
RC 50581
Annotation: In this sequel to Yang the Second and Her Secret Admirers (RC 49543), Third Sister and her siblings try to help Eldest Brother, the most talented musician in the Yang family, find work to pay for a new violin. For grades 3-6. 2000.

Namioka, Lensey.
Yang the second and her secret admirers
RC 49543
Annotation: In this sequel to Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family (RC 47759), Yinglan Yang is the only one in her Chinese immigrant family who is not enjoying life in America. Inspired by a Shakespearean play, her younger siblings try to play matchmaker for her and a Chinese-American boy. For grades 3-6. 1998.

Namioka, Lensey.
Yang the third and her impossible family
RC 47759
Annotation: Third daughter Mary Yang makes an unexpected new friend while trying to hide a kitten from her family. For grades 6-9 and older readers.

Namioka, Lensey.
Yang the youngest and his terrible ear
RC 36736
Annotation: Youngest of four in a musically gifted family, Yingtao is tone-deaf, but his father persists in teaching him the violin. The family recently immigrated to Seattle, and Father hopes that the children's performance at a recital will bring him more students. Yingtao makes friends with Matthew, who plays the violin well, but whose father would rather he play baseball, at which Yingtao now excels. For grades 3-6.

Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-
Bone
RC 37153
Annotation: Chinese-American Leila describes the guilt and sadness that permeate her family before and after her sister Ona, the middle child, jumps to her death. Even more than Leila, Ona was devastated by the marriage of Leila's stepfather Leon and their mother Mah. Nina, the youngest, escapes Chinatown for New York City, but Leila must find a way to stop worrying about her parents and live her own life with her new husband. Some strong language.

Ng, Mei, 1966-
Eating Chinese food naked: a novel
RC 47741
Annotation: Ruby Lee moves back home above the family laundry in Queens after college, not knowing what to do with her life. She feels sorry for her immigrant mother and is also not ready to move in with her boyfriend Nick. Drifting, she takes a temp job. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex.

Nithan nangtæng 'on / The story of Miss Teng-on
RC 24786
Annotation: Epic poem of unrequited love involving mythical figures. Laotian language.

Nithan Thao Kalaket / The story of Thao Kalaket
RC 24783
Annotation: Classic poem in the "kon" poetic style relates a tale of the life and special powers of Prince Thao Kalaket. Laotian language.

Nithan Thao Sithon : lem 1 / The story of Thao Sithon
RC 24782
Annotation: Classic poem in the "kon" poetic style relates the tale of the folk hero Sithon. Laotian language.

Noble, Frances Khirallah.
The Situe stories
RC 51654
Annotation: Eleven short stories involving "situes," the Arabic word for grandmothers. In "The American Way," a henpecked Syrian husband in an extended household solves his gambling problem by becoming a bookie. His larger income pleases his family, and the situe is happy and proud of his enterprise. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000.

Orfalea, Gregory, 1949-
Before the flames: a quest for the history of Arab Americans
RC 34162
Annotation: Orfalea combines personal background with more than a century of Arab-American history in a portrait of an immigrant group American once considered extremely foreign. Orfalea's research took him from villages in Syria and Lebanon to Arab-American communities in the United States, where he interviewed his own Arab-Americans.

Parker, T. Jefferson.
Little Saigon
RC 28727
Annotation: Bennett Frye, a disabled Viet Nam veteran lives in "Little Saigon" in Orange County, California. When Li, his Vietnamese singer wife, is kidnapped, Bennett is helped in his search for Li by brother Chuck who is soon in a self-made mess and is arrested by the local cops. Finally Chuck does unearth Li's kidnapper and a plot to use stolen money to fund a real-estate deal. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Patterson, Wayne.
The Koreans in America
RC 13360
Annotation: Surveys the immigration of Koreans to America from 1903-1970s and identifies the contributions of individual Koreans to American life and culture. For grades 5-8.

Perkins, Mitali.
The Sunita experiment
RC 39447
Annotation: When her grandparents arrive from India for a year-long visit, outgoing eighth-grader Sunita Sen feels caught between two cultures. Her westernized lifestyle is threatened when her parents discourage pizza, overnight stays, and visits from boys; and her mother takes a sabbatical from her college teaching job to keep house and dons traditional dress. Gradually Sunita begins to appreciate the values of her grandparents. For grades 6-9.

Politi, Leo, 1908-
Moy Moy
RC 11926
Annotation: A Chinese-American girl who lives on Chanking Street in Los Angeles enjoys the delights of the Chinese New Year--the dragon parade, firecrackers, goodies, toys, and other surprises. For grades K-3.

Pomeranc, Marion Hess.
The American Wei
RC 46973
Annotation: Wei Fong and his parents have moved to the United States from China, and today they are going to become American citizens. Wei hopes it will be a "double-lucky day"--his first loose tooth is about to fall out, which means the Tooth Fairy will visit. For grades K-3.

Porte, Barbara Ann.
Hearsay: strange tales from the Middle Kingdom
RC 48027
Annotation: Fifteen stories with Chinese themes. In "Two-Parasol Person," Su Ling's mother insists that Su Ling always carry two umbrellas. Years later she finds out why. In "Chinese Ghost in America," Candice's mother tells her about a Chinese ancestor Ma Ku, whose mother refused to let Ma Ku's feet be bound. For grades 5-8.

Rohmer, Harriet.
Skyworld woman / La mujer del mundo-cielo
BR 04478 / RC 17756
Annotation: A short folk tale of the Philippines about a sky goddess with the courage to unite the people of the earthworld and the gods of the skyworld through her marriage to a human. In Spanish and English. For children and adult readers. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Rosenberg, Maxine B.
Being adopted
RC 23154
Annotation: Three children talk about the experience of being adopted into families having racial and cultural backgrounds different from their own. Ten-year-old Andrei was born in India; eight-year-old Karin is from Korea; seven-year-old Rebecca, who is black, flies halfway across the United States to join her white family. The text for children is followed by a brief section, "about adoption today," written for adults. For grades 1-4 to share with their families.

Rozan, S. J.
A bitter feast
RC 50745
Annotation: Chinese American private investigator Lydia Chin is hired to find four missing restaurant workers in New York's Chinatown. With the help of her partner, Bill Smith, and police detective Mary Kee, she uncovers a world of illegal immigrants, drug smuggling, and conflicts between the Cantonese and Fukienese. Some violence. 1998.

Saiki, Jessica Kawasuna.
From the lanai, and other Hawaii stories.
RC 34072
Annotation: Seventeen short stories provide a glimpse of life in the Japanese community in prewar and wartime Hawaii. Saiki portrays the immigrant family's struggle to retain its cultural and ethnic identity while beginning to blend with the new environment. Each story expresses an aspect of this close-knit society in details and descriptions often reminiscent of a Japanese painting or a Haiku verse.

Salisbury, Graham.
Shark bait
RC 47456
Annotation: Ninth grader Eric Chock, white and Chinese son of the police chief, has been grateful for Booley Domingo's friendship since the Chocks moved to this Hawaiian town five years ago. Now Booley is about to fight a sailor, and Eric is considering defying his father to stand by his hero. For grades 5-8.

Salisbury, Graham.
Under the blood-red sun
RC 44654
Annotation: Tomi is a thirteen-year-old living in Honolulu in 1941. His parents and grandfather are Japanese immigrants, and his best friend, Billy, is white, a haole. Much to Tomi's dismay, his grandfather persists in calling himself Japanese and even flying Japan's flag. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, soldiers accuse Tomi's family of being spies. Even Billy begins treating Tomi differently. Some strong language and some violence. For grades 5-8.

Sansan.
Eighth moon: the true story of a young girl's life in Communist China
RC 21450
Annotation: The story of a young girl's world in contemporary China. In 1946, Sansan's family accepted an assignment in the United States. As a small baby, she was left behind, and the Communist revolution made this temporary situation permanent. Sansan, raised by foster parents, describes her years of hard work and disappointment. In 1962, she was reunited with her family in America.

Santoli, Al, 1949-
New Americans: an oral history: immigrants and refugees in the U.S. today
RC 29414
Annotation: The author is the son of an Italian immigrant and is married to a Vietnamese refugee. He traveled throughout the country to search out families or individuals who best expressed the experience of new immigration. Santoli tells their stories of war and violence as they fled such countries as Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Laos.

Saroyan, William, 1908-
Fresno stories
BR 11333
Annotation: A collection of eleven of the author's humorous short stories that span the length of his career. Each story revolves around Armenian-Amercan families in Fresno, California, in the early part of the century.

Saroyan, William, 1908-
The human comedy
RC 10137 / BR 11931
Annotation: Story of an Armenian-American mother and her four children who live in a California town during World War II.

Saroyan, William, 1908-
My name is Aram
RC 28414
Annotation: The life of a boy in the Armenian colony in Fresno, California, is described in these stories and sketches.

Sasaki, Ruth A., 1952-
The loom, and other stories
RC 35007
Annotation: In these stories, a sansei--a third-generation Japanese-American--reveals what it is like to grow up in a culture different from one's own. In the title story, Sasaki discusses a mother's growing isolation, partially a result of wartime internment. In others she confirms the pervasive influence of the grandparents on the opinions of the household, and concedes embarrassment for the current generation as it strives to belong. Some strong language.

Say, Allen.
El Chino
BR 08988
Annotation: Bong Way Wong, a Chinese-American whom everyone called Billy, grew up in Arizona. While his brothers and sisters aspired to be doctors, teachers, and engineers, Wong wanted to be a great athlete. At first he loved basketball, but he wasn't allowed to play in college because he was too short. While vacationing in Spain, Wong fell in love with bullfighting, and he became the first Chinese matador. For grades 3-6 and older readers. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Say, Allen.
Grandfather's journey
BR 09907
Annotation: A Japanese American tells of his grandfather's journey to America. Grandfather loves California, but he also loves Japan and later returns there to live. In Japan, however, he is homesick for America. The narrator, born in Japan, moves to California as a young man. Yet he often returns to visit his birthplace. When in one country, he feels homesick for the other--just like his grandfather. For grades K-3 and older readers. Caldecott Medal. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Say, Allen.
Tree of cranes
BR 08980
Annotation: Seven days before New Year's Day, a young Japanese boy is perplexed by his mother's strange behavior. She folds paper cranes, and digs up the tiny pine tree that was planted when he was born. As the boy helps his mother decorate the tree with the paper cranes and candles, she explains how Christmas is celebrated in the United States, where she was born. For preschool-grade 2. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Schaeffer, Edith.
Mei Fuh: memories from China
RC 47269
Annotation: Describes the activities of the young daughter of American teachers in China. Mei Fuh is born in the city of Wenchow in 1914. When she is almost six, her family moves to America and she leaves behind her Chinese lifestyle. For grades 3-6.

Schmidt, Jeremy, 1949-
Two lands, one heart an American boy's journey to his mother's Vietnam
RC 43365
Annotation: In 1975, a South Vietnamese girl and her brother and sister are separated from their father in a panicked crowd and are adopted by an American family. Years later, the girl, now grown, finds her Vietnamese parents and takes her son to visit them. This is the story of that trip. For grades 3-6.

Scott, Joanna C., 1943-
The lucky gourd shop: a novel
BR 13329
Annotation: Three adopted Korean-American teenagers are curious about their roots. What they do not know is that their birth mother had been a foundling raised in a Seoul coffeeshop. After the death of their father, the children's grandmother saved them from starvation by taking them to an orphanage. 2000.

See, Lisa.
On Gold Mountain: the 100-year odyssey of a Chinese-American family
RC 41993
Annotation: As a child, See heard many stories from Grandma Stella about See's great-grandfather's arrival in the United States (Gold Mountain), his "marriage" to a Caucasian, his first job--selling crotchless underwear to brothels--and his becoming a prominent Chinese on Gold Mountain. See uses oral histories, interviews, official documents, and trips to China for this account of her family.

Shankar, Ravi, 1920-
Raga mala: the autobiography of Ravi Shankar
RC 51182
Annotation: Memoirs of the classical sitar player from India who became popular in the U.S. in the 1960s. Recalls important events and people who influenced him or vice versa. Discusses his professional growth and details from his private life, and explains the history and principles of Indian music. 1997.

Sherrill, Martha.
The Buddha from Brooklyn
RC 52127
Annotation: A Washington Post journalist's profile of American housewife Catharine Burroughs, who took the name Jetsunma after being recognized by a Buddhist leader as the reincarnation of a Tibetan lama. Describes the charismatic Jetsunma's influence on her followers and their efforts to create the largest Tibetan Buddhist center in America. Some strong language. 2000.

Skimin, Robert.
Chikara!: a sweeping novel of Japan and America from 1907 to 1983.
RC 21166
Annotation: A saga of a Japanese family in the twentieth century. Seeking wealth, success, and his chikara (which means personal accomplishment and power in Japanese), Sataro Hoshi, son of a samurai soldier, leaves Japan with his wife and eldest son in 1907. In California, after facing prejudice, desertion by his wife, and many other reverses, Sataro realizes that wealth is not the key. He returns to Japan to make amends. Some explicit descriptions of sex.

Sowell, Thomas, 1930-
Ethnic America: a history
RC 19887
Annotation: A social scientist surveys nine major ethnic groups that have populated America--the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. He analyzes the many historical and socio-economic factors that have influenced the lifestyles, difficulties, and achievements of each group.

Stanley, Jerry, 1941-
I am an American: a true story of Japanese internment
RC 44161
Annotation: Tells of Shi Nomura, who, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants, was imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Describes Nomura's unhappy stay at the Manzanar "internment camp" in California, and discusses the hostility and fear experienced by those who came to America in search of a better life. For grades 5-8.

Steoff, Rebecca.
Spacious dreams: the first wave of Asian immigration
RC 39953
Annotation: Concerned that Asian Americans are not represented in many history books about the settling of the United States, the author discusses the immigration of Asians during the period between the California gold rush of 1849 and the 1924 immigration act. Includes people from China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. For grades 5-8 and older readers.

Streshinsky, Shirley.
The gift of the golden mountain
RC 28278
Annotation: Growing up in the 1960s, beautiful, Chinese-American May Reade is trying to come to terms with her dual heritage. Thanks to her wealth, she is able to make an illegal journey into mainland China to search for her mother. Later she goes with her husband to Vietnam, in the final days of the war, to help locate her nephew. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Hers the Kingdom".

Sung, Betty Lee.
The Chinese in America
RD 06825
Annotation: An account of the Chinese in America, from the Gold Rush immigration of the 1840's to the present. Covers occupations, injustices, family life, festivals, and custom, in addition to the problems of the 20th-century Chinese-Americans. For grades 4-6.

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-
A different mirror: a history of multicultural America
RC 37361
Annotation: Professor of ethnic studies traces American history from non-Anglo perspectives, beginning with Native Americans and including Africans, Russian Jews, Japanese, Irish, Chinese, and Latinos. Takaki discusses the exploitation of immigrants in the development of the American economy, and he relates the problems of minorities in continuing ethnic and racial misunderstandings, making a case for education on the subject.

Tales of marvel and wonder
RCF 01773
Annotation: A collection of ancient Indochinese fables including "The Magic Bird," "The Elephant," and "The Woodpeckers." Laotian language.

Tan, Amy.
The bonesetter's daughter
RC 51557
Annotation: San Francisco writer Ruth Young discovers a memoir by her Chinese mother, LuLing, while she is dealing with LuLing's failing memory. After deciphering the Chinese calligraphy, Ruth gains insight into her family heritage that improves her relationship with her mother. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.

Tan, Amy.
The hundred secret senses
RC 40838 / BR 10230
Annotation: Although Olivia is disappointed and often embarrassed by her Chinese-born half sister, she tolerates Kwan's eccentric, brassy, meddlesome ways and even her incessant discussions with nineteenth-century Chinese ghosts. Olivia is also disappointed with her marriage and its own ghost. Eventually Kwan helps Olivia to understand loyalty and unconditional love. Some violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller.

Tan, Amy.
The Joy Luck Club
BR 07747 / RC 29021 / FD 29021
Annotation: In 1949 four Chinese women living in San Francisco founded the Joy Luck Club where they met to play mah jong, tell stories, and "feast" on scraps. Forty years later one of the women dies, her daughter takes her place at the club, and a secret is revealed that unleashes in each person the need to reach back and remember. Bestseller.

Tan, Amy.
The kitchen god's wife
RC 33906 / BR 08628 / FD 33906
Annotation: When an elderly Chinese woman finally unburdens herself of the secrets of her past, her Chinese-American daughter hears painful memories of maternal deprivation, a degrading marriage, war-time suffering, and imprisonment. She also learns of her mother's hard-won arrival in America and a secret about herself, and she begins to understand their difficult mother-daughter relationship.

Tan, Amy.
Klub Radosti i Udachi
RCF 04543
Annotation: In 1949 four Chinese women living in San Francisco founded the Joy Luck Club where they met to play mah jong, tell stories, and "feast" on scraps. Forty years later one of the women dies, her daughter takes her place at the club, and a secret is revealed that unleashes in each person the need to reach back and remember. Bestseller. Russian language.

Tan, Amy.
The moon lady
RC 36467
Annotation: A grandmother living in America tells her granddaughters of her childhood adventure at the Moon Festival. Ying-ying, a pampered child living in China, travels by boat to catch a glimpse of the Moon Lady and to tell the lady her secret wish. When Ying-ying is lost at sea and the real identity of the Moon Lady is revealed, Ying-ying discovers the true wish of her heart. Adapted from The Joy Luck Club (RC/FD 29021). For grades 3-6 and older readers.

Tateishi, John, 1939-
And justice for all: an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps
RC 21716
Annotation: Accounts by thirty Japanese-Americans who describe the horrors and the humiliation of being rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps during World War II. Although the Japanese-American community was portrayed as a nest of spies and saboteurs, not one Japanese-American was ever brought to trial for disloyal activities.

Taylor, Theodore, 1921-
Tuck triumphant
RC 33576 / BR 08595
Annotation: It has been over a year since Helen trained Tuck, her blind Labrador, to use his own guide dog. The Ogdens are now adopting a Korean orphan. To their surprise, when Chok-Do arrives he is not a baby but a six-year-old, and profoundly deaf. Helen, her parents, Tuck, and Chok-Do face new challenges with courage and determination. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck." For grades 4-7.

Ten Broek, Jacobus.
Prejudice, war and the Constitution
RC 08019
Annotation: Studies the historical, political, and legal ramifications of the removal of 110,000 Japanese-Americans from their homes in the U.S. during World War II. Most of these people were confined for two and a half years in camps surrounded by barbed wire.

Terris, Susan.
The latchkey kids.
RC 25104
Annotation: Her father's mental illness has cost him his job, and now Callie Hoveler's family has moved across town into a small flat on the other side of San Francisco. Her mom has returned to work, which means that Callie has to take care of her little brother Rex after school. Meeting Nora, a fellow "latchkey kid" from a Chinese family, leads Callie into friendship--and trouble. For grades 4-7.

Thomas, Ross, 1926-
Voodoo, Ltd.
RC 35761
Annotation: When Hollywood actress-director Ione Gamble is accused of murdering her ex-fiance, her lawyer hires a brother-sister hypnotist team to determine her innocence. After the hypnotists suspiciously go missing, their referral company hires partners Wu and Durant and their odd entourage--Otherguy Overby, Booth Stallings, and newly released Georgia Blue from Out on the Rim (RC 26635)--to track them down. Strong language and some violence.

Tobias, Tobi.
Isamu Noguchi; the life of a sculptor.
BRA 14142
Annotation: Biography of the famous Japanese-American sculptor whose creations include bridges, theaters, playgrounds, gardens, light sculptures, furniture, and fountains. For grades 3-6.

Trân, Vu.
The dragon hunt: five stories
RC 49934
Annotation: Five stories depicting the history of strife in Vietnam and the suffering of its emigrants. "The Coral Reef" is based on the author's own harrowing escape from his homeland when an overcrowded boat runs aground. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1999.

Uchida, Yoshiko
The best bad thing
RC 22369
Annotation: Rinko is heartbroken when her mother asks her to spend the last month of summer vacation helping a widowed friend who lives out in the country. Everybody says the widow is crazy. Besides that, she has two pesky little boys, and they live in a spooky old house without electricity or a phone. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams." For grades 5-8.

Uchida, Yoshiko.
The birthday visitor
BRA 14658
Annotation: Emi, a Japanese-American girl from California, dreads the visit of a Japanese minister who she fears will ruin her seventh birthday. For grades 2-4.

Uchida, Yoshiko
The bracelet
RC 43257
Annotation: In 1942 Emi and her family are being sent to a prison camp just because they are Japanese Americans. Emi's best friend, Laurie, gives Emi a bracelet to wear in camp so she'll always remember her. But on the first day at camp, Emi loses the bracelet. Now Emi wonders how she'll be able to remember her friend. For grades K-3.

Uchida, Yoshiko
The happiest ending
RC 25223
Annotation: When she learns that her neighbor's daughter Teru is coming from Japan to marry Mr. Kinjo, a stranger twice Teru's age, Rinko doesn't think it's fair. After all, this is 1936, in Berkeley, California, America. No one should be forced into a pre-arranged marriage with someone she's never met. So twelve-year-old Rinko sets out to change things, before it's too late. Sequel to "The Best Bad Thing." For grades 5-8.

Uchida, Yoshiko.
Hisako's mysteries
BR 01430
Annotation: Reared by her grandparents, 13-year-old Hisako has always believed that her father died when she was very young. On a visit to Tokyo, however, she meets a mysterious artist whom she suspects is her father. For grades 4-6.

Uchida, Yoshiko.
In-between Miya
BR 00827
Annotation: A painful lesson teaches Miya that social standing and wealth have little to do with being happy. For grades 4-6.

Uchida, Yoshiko.
The invisible thread: an autobiography
RC 42673
Annotation: Uchida describes how her ordinary lifestyle as a Japanese American growing up in California came to an abrupt end when she and her family were imprisoned after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Following her release from the relocation camp in Topaz, Utah, Uchida became a teacher and wrote books about Japanese American children, including The Happiest Ending (RC 25223). For grades 6-9.

Uchida, Yoshiko
A jar of dreams
RC 22368
Annotation: More than anything else in the whole world, Rinko wants to be like everyone else. But being Japanese in California during the Great Depression is hard not only for Rinko, but also for her whole, hard-working family. Followed by "The Best Bad Thing." For grades 5-8 and older readers.

Uchida, Yoshiko
Journey home
RC 14548
Annotation: Twelve-year-old Yuki Sakane still has nightmares about Topaz, the U.S. concentration camp for Japanese-Americans, where her family was forced to stay during World War II. The Sakanes return to California but nothing is the same--their house is occupied, their garden is overgrown, Papa's job is gone, and many people hate the Japanese. An authentic story based on the author's experience. For grades 5-8. Sequel to Journey to Topaz (RD 6310).

Uchida, Yoshiko.
Journey to Topaz: a story of the Japanese-American evacuation
RD 6310 / RC (IN PROCESS)
Annotation: In 1942 Yuki Sakane, an eleven-year-old Japanese American, can hardly wait for Christmas. But her world is suddenly shattered when her father is arrested by the FBI and the family is imprisoned after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Based on the author's own experience. For grades 4-7. 1971.

Urban odyssey: a multicultural history of Washington, D.C.
RC 43195
Annotation: Seventeen essays that trace the immigrant history of the nation's capital. Tells how every ethnic group, from the early Native Americans to the recent Koreans, has struggled to preserve its community network and cultural traditions.

Van Slyke, Helen, 1919-
The mixed blessing
RD 13153 / RC 13153
Annotation: Portrays a gentle and courageous young woman, the child of a racially mixed marriage, who is torn between her passion for the one man she desperately loves and loyalty to her family. Sequel to "The Heart Listens" (RD 7337).

Vida, Nina.
Goodbye, Saigon: a novel
RC 40357
Annotation: Thirty-five-year-old Vietnamese Anh supports her extended family in a California Little Saigon with the money she gets for providing luck to a gambling lawyer. When the lawyer disappears, Anh goes to his office. She finds his secretary Jana, who is as desperate for money as Anh, filling in for the lawyer, who is in a coma. Anh helps Jana continue her illegal law practice. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex.

Wang, An, 1920-
Lessons: an autobiography
RC 25263
Annotation: The author is the founder of Wang Laboratories, Inc., a leading supplier of integrated information processing systems. Arriving in the United States in 1945 as a student from China, Wang attended Harvard University, graduating six years later with a doctorate in physics. He then founded his own electronics firm now worth billions.

Watanabe, Sylvia.
Talking to the dead, and other stories.
RC 36964
Annotation: Set in a Hawaiian village. The characters in these ten related short stories are poised between conflicting generations and cultures. In the O. Henry Award-winning title story, a tall young woman with dim marriage prospects apprentices herself to the local kahuna to learn ancient burial rites. And in " The caves of Okinawa", a father is haunted by World War II memories as he copes with a son on leave from war in Vietnam.

Werner, Emmy E.
Through the eyes of innocents: children witness World War II
RC 51216
Annotation: European, Asian, and American children's first-hand descriptions of the violence and social upheaval of World War II, told in anecdotes, diary entries, letters, and other eyewitness accounts. Includes the experiences of teenagers in battle, as well as young people who survived blackouts, air raids, sieges, evacuations, and internment camps. Violence. 2000.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
Bat 6
RC 47049
Annotation: In 1949, the sixth-grade girls of Bear Creek Ridge and Barlow are preparing for their annual softball game. Bear Creek is happy to have first-baseman Aki home from a Japanese internment camp. Barlow's new girl, Shazam, is a phenomenal player but harbors hatred and anger about the war. No one anticipates the tragedy that occurs during the game. For grades 5-8.

Wong, Jade Snow.
Fifth Chinese daughter
RD 08274 / BRA03329
Annotation: Autobiography of a Chinese-American girl growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown. She faces the conflict between the traditional Chinese culture and the new American customs as she attends school, considers marriage and discovers her talents for pottery. Her story is continued in "No Chinese Stranger" [RD 08288].

Wong, Jade Snow.
No Chinese stranger
RD 08288
Annotation: A sequel to "Fifth Chinese Daughter" [RD 08274 / BRA03329], this autobiography tells of Jade Snow's successful career in ceramics, her married life, her identity as a Chinese American and her travels to Asia, especially her trip to the People's Republic of China in 1972. She also relates the changes in San Francisco's Chinatown and in her own traditional Chinese family.

Wong, Janet S.
A suitcase of seaweed, and other poems
RC 45788 / BR 10870
Annotation: Thirty-six poems divided into three categories--"Korean Poems," "Chinese Poems," and "American Poems"--that reflect the author's heritage. Wong shares insights into Asian American experiences in such poems as "Acupuncture," "Koreatown," "Tea Ceremony," "Manners," "Face It," and "Money Order." For grades 3-6.

Wormser, Richard, 1933-
American Islam: growing up Muslim in America
BR 11063
Annotation: The author provides an overview of Islam--its origins, history, and practice in America. Includes comments from young Muslims who discuss how they keep their faith amidst a more permissive American society. The author also examines the Nation of Islam, its prominent leaders, and its growth within the African American community. For junior and senior high readers.

Wu, Hongda Harry.
Troublemaker: one man's crusade against China's cruelty
RC 44813
Annotation: After enduring nineteen years as a prisoner in a Chinese labor camp, American citizen Harry Wu returned to China covertly to document the widespread human rights abuses there. The noted dissident recounts those perilous trips, details his arrest and trial, and reveals the extent of human exploitation in China.

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann, 1961-
Wild meat and the bully burgers
BR 10613
Annotation: During the 1970s, Lovey Nariyoshi lives with her poor Japanese American family in Hilo, Hawaii, and wants very much to be white (haole). As her teacher berates her and her classmates for not being able to speak standard English, Lovey has humorous fantasies of having Farrah Fawcett hair, store-bought clothes, an American name, and a haole husband with hairy legs. Strong language and some descriptions of sex.

Yashima, Taråo.
Umbrella.
KIT 045
Annotation: Momo, given an umbrella and a pair of boots on her third birthday, is overjoyed when it finally rains. For grades K-3. A copy of the PRINT/BRAILLE book is included with the cassette.

Yee, Paul.
Ghost train
RC 46049
Annotation: Although born with one arm in the nineteenth century, young Choon-yi becomes a remarkable artist. One day her father, who left China to work on the railroads of North America, sends for her to join him. When she arrives, Choon-yi learns her father has died, but in her dreams he instructs her to complete a painting. For grades 2-4.

Yee, Paul.
Tales from Gold Mountain: stories of the Chinese in the New World
RC 34790
Annotation: The author fashioned these eight stories from tales he heard as a child growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown, and from historical research. They tell of the history of the Chinese in North America--during the gold rush, with the transcontinental railway, and in the canneries--and of the unjust laws and racial discrimination these immigrants encountered. For grades 6-9 and older readers.

Yep, Laurence.
The amah
RC 50195
Annotation: Twelve-year-old Amy Chin feels like an unwanted stepdaughter when her mother begins working as an amah (Chinese nanny) for Stephanie, a wealthy motherless girl. Amy even has to miss ballet classes to babysit her four younger siblings. But Amy's feelings change when her mom brings Stephanie home for a week. For grades 5-8. 1999.

Yep, Laurence.
The case of the firecrackers
RC 50507
Annotation: In this sequel to The Case of the Lion Dance (RC 50506) Lily accompanies her actress great-aunt Tiger Lil to the filming of a television show in Chinatown. When a prop gun fires real bullets, Lily and Tiger Lil must prove Lily's brother was not responsible. For grades 4-7. 1999.

Yep, Laurence.
The case of the goblin pearls
RC 46951
Annotation: Someone steals a priceless string of pearls during the New Year's parade in Chinatown. Auntie Tiger Lil, followed by her niece Lily in a large cylindrical costume, hotly pursues the thief. What they learn about the pearls' origins causes Tiger Lil to make her own decision about honesty and justice. For grades 5-8.

Yep, Laurence.
The case of the lion dance
RC 50506
Annotation: In this sequel to The Case of the Goblin Pearls (RC 46951) Lily and her actress great-aunt Tiger Lil are attending the opening of a friend's restaurant when charity funds are stolen. The duo searches for the thief through San Francisco's Chinatown. For grades 4-7. 1998.

Yep, Laurence.
Child of the owl
RC 11545
Annotation: Street-wise Casey, a twelve-year-old who knows more about horse racing than about her Chinese heritage, feels completely out of place when she is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown. A touching novel for grades 5-8.

Yep, Laurence.
Dragon's gate
RC 38610
Annotation: China, 1865. Fourteen-year-old Otter eagerly sails to California to join his father and his legendary uncle, Foxfire, as a laborer on the transcontinental railroad. Joining outcasts headed by Uncle Foxfire, a dreamer battling defeat by American racism and the fears of his Chinese companions, Otter begins a harrowing journey towards self-knowledge. Companion to Mountain Light (RC 26541), and Serpent's Children (RC 26540). For grades 6-9 and older readers.

Yep, Laurence.
Dragonwings
RC 09784 / BR 09550
Annotation: Moon Shadow sails from China in 1903 to join his father in San Francisco's Chinatown. Because the father is obsessed with the dream of making a flying machine, he and his son endure poverty and ridicule to make the dream come true. Inspired by a true account. Newbery Honor Book. For grades 6-9.

Yep, Laurence.
Hiroshima: a novella
BR 10442
Annotation: On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Yep tells the story of Sachi, a young Japanese schoolgirl, and explains the short-and long-term effects of the explosion on her, her family, and her friends. For grades 4-7 and older readers.

Yep, Laurence.
The junior thunder lord
RC 43936
Annotation: Retelling of a Chinese fable from the seventeenth century. When a drought settles in his village, merchant Yue must travel to sell his wares. On the road, Yue is kind to a large, odd man named Bear Face, who gratefully vows to help Yue in return. For grades K-3.

Yep, Laurence.
The Khan's daughter: a Mongolian folktale
BR 12002
Annotation: A poor, young shepherd wants to marry the khan's pretty daughter but must succeed at three tasks to prove his worth. Fortunately he receives help from an unexpected source. For grades K-3. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Yep, Laurence.
The lost garden
RC 49376
Annotation: Newbery Honor author, born in 1948, tells of growing up in a San Francisco apartment over his parents' corner grocery. Though his family emigrated from China, Chinese was not spoken in Yep's home. His childhood is reflected in Child of the Owl (RC 11545) and other fiction. For grades 6-9. 1991.

Yep, Laurence.
Mountain light
RC 26541
Annotation: A novel set in the 1850s. A Chinese boy, Squeaky Lau, meets Cassia as they all return home from fighting the oppressive Manchus. Their friendship grows to love. However, Squeaky becomes discontented and longs to follow Foxfire, Cassia's brother, to America to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. Sequel to "The Serpent's Children." For junior and senior high readers.

Yep, Laurence.
The rainbow people
RC 36672
Annotation: Twenty Chinese folktales, selected and retold by the author from stories collected in Oakland, California, in the 1930s as part of a WPA project. The book is divided into sections such as "Tricksters," "Fools," and "Love," each of which is prefaced by a short explanation of how the tales relate to the Chinese-American experience. For grades 4-7 and older readers.

Yep, Laurence.
Ribbons
RC 46917
Annotation: Robin's family is put on a strict budget in order to bring her grandmother over from Hong Kong. Robin is upset that she has to sacrifice a promising ballet career. Practicing unsupervised harms her feet, something she discovers she has in common with her grandmother's bound ones. For grades 5-8.

Yep, Laurence
The Star Fisher
BRW 16294
Annotation: Fictionalized account of the author's mother's Chinese-American family in early 20th-century West Virginia. Grades 5-8.

Yep, Laurence.
Thief of hearts
RC 45839
Annotation: Chinese American Casey, from Child of the Owl (RC 11545), is now married to a white man. Their daughter Stacy's high school life is disrupted by the arrival of Hong Ch'un from China. The friction between the two girls is immediate, but when Hong Ch'un is accused of stealing from Stacy's friends, Stacy defends her. For grades 5-8.

Yep, Laurence.
Tree of dreams: ten tales from the garden of night
RC 44140
Annotation: Ten stories about dreams from Japan, China, India, Greece, Senegal, and Brazil. In "Dream Girl," a young prince uses his cleverness to find and marry a princess from his dreams. In "The Fool's Dream," a slave uses his ability to solve riddles to make his vision come true. For grades 3-6.

Yin
Coolies.
BRW 134
Annotation: A young Chinese-American boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother, who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad. Grades 2-4. PRINT/BRAILLE.

Zia, Helen.
Asian American dreams: the emergence of an American people.
RC 51913
Annotation: Chinese American writer describes the history and potential of the large diverse Asian population in the United States. Explains how fragmented, isolated ethnic groups--motivated by hate crimes and stereotyping--transformed themselves into a new political power. Some strong language. 2000.

December 2001

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