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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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AAPI Heritage Reading List for Kids & Teens
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage
Newbery
Readopoly Community Garden Recommendations
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage
Newbery
Readopoly Community Garden Recommendations
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal- if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger. Tae Keller,...
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Horrible Harry and Song Lee have been best friends since kindergarten. But when they have to work together on a project about dragons, they get into a fight that threatens to end their friendship.
Author
Series
Song Lee books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Song Lee is upset when she receives hateful notes in class, but she finds an appropriate and positive way to deal with them.
7) Jin Woo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.
8) The name jar
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
9) I'm New Here
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
Author
Series
Gifted clans volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Riley Oh ventures into the Spiritrealm, where she hopes to convince Saint Heo Jun to become the new patron god of the Gom clan and restore their healing powers.
11) My Name is Yoon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Yoon's name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although she really would have liked a jump rope for her birthday, Yoon is happy to receive a Korean picture book and a jade bracelet passed down from her grandmother; and when she wears the bracelet to school it seems as if her wish for a jump rope and a friend is about to come true.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
15) Made in Korea
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
From master storyteller An Na comes the Printz Award winning novel about a Korean girl who tells her firsthand account of trying to find her place and identity in America from the day she leaves Korea as a child to her rocky journey through the teenage years.At age four, Young Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has always imagined America would be like heaven: easy, blissful, and full of riches. But when her family arrives,...