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Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Teen List

Explore these YA books from a perspective and voice of our Asian American and Pacific Islanders.

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  • A Māori poet compares the 21st century with different mythologies ranging from Greek to Māori, rendering the natural world and emotions.
    Book, 2022New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. — 821.92 TIB 2022
  • Eliot, a young Japanese American teen, just lost her grandmother who had dementia. Worried her grandmother will be confused and lonely in her afterlife, Eliot she goes on a hunt to find her ghost to say her final goodbye.
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2022. — J BOWMAN
  • Aria, a Chinese American girl, is sent to spend her summer with her grandma after the scandal at a high school party goes viral. A summer of what she thought was punishment turns into her finding her sexual identity and falling for her grandma's…
    Book, 2022New York : Dutton Books, [2022] — YP LO
  • Tara Bajaj, a former mean girl in high school, uses her status and social media to have the perfect life, but little do people know she holds in her family secret of shame. To get away from all that’s happening, she excepts a job to take the youth…
    Book, 2023New York : Skyscape, [2023] — YA-SHA
  • Isabel, a Filipino American, is always overlooked by the boys when it comes to the robotics club. Mateo on the other hand picked her because he sees she could help them with this year's match.
    Book, 2022New York : Holiday House, 2022. — YA-FOL
  • Sam, a Korean American high school student, downloads a ride share app that throws her back to the 90s when her mom was in high school. She sees her mom and the urgency for her to fit in with the rich white kids back then. It makes her realize why…
    Book, 2023New York : Zando Young Readers, 2023. — YA-GOO
  • Chloe is waitlisted at the University of Southern California and ready to leave Manila but her family wants her to stay and work in the family business. Her father agrees to kaishao her, a matchmaker of blind dates hoping she will find someone and…
    Book, 2023New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023. — YA-COY
  • Two sisters who are totally opposite take different sides when a racist Chinese slur is posted on their house. Margaret wants to find justice and hold whoever did this accountable as Annalie wants to forget the whole thing.
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — YA-TIA
  • Vietnamese American siblings Clip and Sadie have a rival VR laser tag game that keeps them busy against each other, but when one of them gets trapped can they put aside their differences to help each other win the game?
    Book, 2022New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022. — J DAO
  • May Chen, a Chinese American teenager, is mourning the loss of her older brother to suicide. As her and her family try to mourn in silence they being to be attacked with racist slurs and stereotypes blaming the parents for putting too much pressure…
    eBook, 2022New York, NY : HarperTeen, [2022]