Award Winners: Asian/Pacific Award for Literature - Children's Literature CategoryLike this list

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• Ruby Lost and Found

  Li, Christina,

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  2023 Winner: When Ruby spends the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, she finds herself working with Liam, who might not be as annoying as he seems, to help save a historic Chinatown bakery that's being priced out of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maizy Chen's Last Chance

  Yee, Lisa,

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  2022 Winner: Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself.

• Amina's Song

  Khan, Hena,

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  2021 Winner: Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.

• When You Trap a Tiger

  Keller, Tae,

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  2020 Winner: Moving with her parents into the home of her sick grandmother, young Lily forges a complicated pact with a magical tiger, in a story inspired by Korean folktales.

• Stargazing

  Wang, Jen, 1984-

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  2019 Winner: Moon is everything Christine isn't. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. Jen Wang draws on her childhood to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Front Desk

  Yang, Kelly,

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  2018 Winner: Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. She lives in a motel. Her parents hide immigrants. She wants to be a writer. It will take all of Mia's courage, kindness, and hard work to get through this year. Will she be able to hold on to her job,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh

  Krishnaswami, Uma,

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  2017 Winner: In this fascinating middle grade novel, award-winning author Uma Krishnaswami sheds light on a little-known chapter of American history set in a community whose families made multicultural choices before the word had been invented.

• The Land of Forgotten Girls

  Kelly, Erin Entrada,

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  2016 Winner: Erin Entrada Kelly, the author of the acclaimed Blackbird Fly, writes with grace, imagination, and deepest heart about family, sisters, and friendship and about finding and holding on to hope in difficult times.

• Full Cicada Moon

  Hilton, Marilyn

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  2015 Winner: This historical middle-grade novel is told in poems from Mimi's perspective over the course of one year in her new town, and shows listeners that positive change can start with just one person speaking up.

• Gaijin

  American Prisoner of War : a Graphic Novel

  Faulkner, Matt

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  2014 Winner: Koji's story, based on true events, is brought to life by Matt Faulkner's cinematic illustrations that reveal Koji struggling to find his place in a tumultuous world-one where he is a prisoner of war in his own country.

• The Thing About Luck

  Kadohata, Cynthia

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  2013 Winner: The winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, from Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata. There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck - which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family.