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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
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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
Mindy Kim volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When another student tries to sabotage Mindy and Sally's Yummy Seaweed Business, Mindy loses more than she bargained for and wonders if she'll ever fit in at her new school"--
3) Gilded
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Series
Gilded volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in L.A., Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting into a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demi-god, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest...
5) Jin Woo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Gifted clans volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A striking first novel about the dark side of the American Dream.
Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family's history. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"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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Mindy Kim volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mindy is determined to enjoy her first Lunar New Year without her mom, but her old holiday traditions don't go quite as planned, and she has to find a way to create new ones"--
11) Throwback
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all- American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clicȟd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back. To her shock, Sam lands in the '90s . . . alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam has to deal with...
13) Frankly in love
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
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"--
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Mindy Kim volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's time to pick a class president, and Mindy really wants to win--and she's basing her entire campaign on snacks and being kind, so how could she NOT be chosen? But there is one big thing that Mindy is not sure she can do--make a speech to her class about why she would be the best pick for president. Can Mindy face her fears and show the class--and herself--that she can be the best class president ever?"--Amazon.
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Pippa Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Publisher Annotation: Life is full of great expectations for Korean American Pippa Park. It seems like everyone, from her family to the other kids at school, has a plan for how her life should look. So when Pippa gets a mysterious basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private, she jumps at the chance to reinvent herself by following the "Rules of Cool." At Lakeview, Pippa juggles old and new friends, an unrequited crush, and the pressure to perform academically...
17) Her good side
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they call a late-bloomer. She’s never had a boyfriend, date, or first kiss. She’s determined to change that but after her crush turns her down cold for Homecoming—declaring her too inexperienced—and all her back-up ideas fall through, she cautiously agrees to go with her best friend’s boyfriend Jacob. A platonic date is better than no date, right? Until Saylor breaks...
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Song Lee books volume 1
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Spring becomes a memorable time for Miss Mackle's second-grade classroom because of the antics of Horrible Harry and the special insights of shy Song Lee.
19) Troublemaker
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On the first night of rioting in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, Jordan's father leaves to check on the family store, spurring twelve-year-old Jordan and his friends to embark on a dangerous journey through South Central and Koreatown to come to his aid, encountering the racism within their community as they go.
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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.
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