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The Astonishing Color of After
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life. Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.- Fiction
- APALA Literature Award - Young Adult - Honor 2019
- ISBN: 9780316463997
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Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
Spunky fourteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy is a manga comic creator, hiding behind the ultra-superheroine of her creation. While Gadget Girl swoops in to save the day and relies on her strength and precision in the pages of Aiko's comic books, Aiko herself wishes she could conceal herself from the whispers and stares from kids about her cerebral palsy. Aiko grapples with her desire to meet her Japanese indigo-farming father and living with her eccentric sculptor mother. The mother and daughter duo end up travelling to Paris where Aiko is uncomfortable with all the attention she and her mom receive. Soon, she begins to deftly navigate the challenges in her life, as well as the makings of a potential love interest. Gadget Girl is heart-warming story of a young girl searching for her identity and finds it in herself and the people with whom she connects with from home and across the ocean.- Realistic Fiction
- APALA Literature Award - Young Adult - Honor 2013
- ISBN: 9781936846382
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Ink and Ashes
On the anniversary of her father's death, Claire Takata finds a letter from her father to her stepfather. In the process of trying to learn more about her past, she discovers her father was a member of the Yakuza.- Realistic Fiction, Romance, Thriller, Crime
- APALA Literature Award - Young Adult - Honor 2015
- ISBN: 9781620142110
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The Shadow Hero
Hank Chu becomes the Green Turtle after inheriting a wish granting turtle and becomes a hero in his Chinatown neighborhood. -
Watched
Marina Budhos' YA novel explores society's fear and suspicion of those deemed Other – most especially young Muslim men. Naeem is one, and he's always being watched — by his parents, by the neighbors, by the cops, by his little brother, by surveillance cameras. However, an arrest for shoplifting turns into an opportunity for the Watched to become the Watcher.