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2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
AANHPI 2023 - Teens
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month (teens)
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In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision. With her family splintered and her future a question mark, Beth's friends Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou are all she has. She's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really...
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In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
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When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
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Chloe Wang is nervous to introduce her parents to her boyfriend, because the truth is, she hasn't met him yet either. She hired him from Rent for Your 'Rents, a company specializing in providing fake boyfriends trained to impress even the most traditional Asian parents. Drew Chan's passion is art, but after his parents cut him off for dropping out of college to pursue his dreams, he became a Rent for Your 'Rents employee to keep a roof over his head....
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Oh, The Places You'll Go
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Mock Newbery 2023 - Anderson's
Oh, The Places You'll Go
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"In a crowded Chicago airport, an incident at TSA impacts twelve young Asian Americans, all strangers to one another before this day. As events cause their journeys to intertwine, they discover the challenges of friendship, the perils of younger siblings, the power or words, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. Twelve virtuoso authors draw from their own experiences to explore themes of identity and belonging in...
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Ming stories (Deirdre Sullivan) volume 1
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Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with new friends and old, but she is still not quite ready for the big red slide.
10) The flying fish
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When Rachel goes fishing with her grandfather, she wonders if she will ever catch anything.
13) Tricky twins
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Ricky and Nicky are twins, and even though they are like two peas in a pod, it is not as hard to tell them apart as it could be.
15) Show and tell
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Ben wanted to bring something really neat to school for show-and-tell. So he picked up his baby sister, stuffed her in his knapsack and walked off to school. Then baby sister woke up!
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