15 YA Books by AAPI Authors | Nashville Public Library

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Coyiuto, Mae, 1994-

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"A teen girl comes face to face with the ghost of her recently deceased dad when she ignores a strict Filipino superstition"-- Provided by publisher.

2) The Oks are not ok

Author

Shim, Grace K

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When seventeen-year-old influencer Elena Ok's family loses its fast-fashion fortune and flees to rural California, she is forced to confront her family's dynamics, and when she begins helping local vendors at the Blaire Fair, she starts to rethink her definition of success.

3) Ramin Abbas has major questions

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Saber, Ahmad

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While grappling with his identity as a gay Muslim, senior Ramin joins the soccer team in his final semester to meet his graduation requirements.

4) The celestial seas

Author

Chan, T. A

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Ishara Ming, the sole survivor of her crew's destruction by the sentient spacecraft Ballena, becomes obsessed with revenge and assembles a misfit crew with Quinn, her trusted first mate, and Augustus, a member with his own reasons for vengeance, forcing her to choose between revenge, loyalty, and her own unraveling before she loses everything again.

5) Prodigal tiger

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Chong, Samantha

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"Eighteen-year-old Caroline Chua returns home to Penang to help find her missing brother and ends up in an epic battle with ghosts for control of the island"-- Provided by publisher.

6) Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me

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Tamaki, Mariko

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Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further...

7) American born Chinese

Author

Yang, Gene Luen

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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.

8) Patron saints of nothing

Author

Ribay, Randy

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When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

9) Butterfly yellow

Author

Lai, Thanhha

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A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.

10) Saints and misfits

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Ali, S. K

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Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

11) Darius the Great is not okay

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Khorram, Adib

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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.

12) From a whisper to a rallying cry: the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement

Author

Yoo, Paula

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"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...

13) We are not free

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Chee, Traci

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For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

14) American betiya

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Rajurkar, Anuradha D

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Eighteen-year-old Rani, a budding photographer, grapples with first love, family boundaries, and the complications of a cross-cultural relationship.

15) Spin the dawn

Author

Lim, Elizabeth

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Disguising herself as a boy to compete for the position of imperial tailor, Maia must somehow complete the impossible task of sewing three magic gowns for the emperor's bride-to-be from the sun's laughter, the moon's tears, and the blood of stars.