His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path-even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has only been growing more volatile. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood.
Now she’s been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.
? This is the first book in: the Tiger at Midnight seriesĮsha lost everything in the royal coup-and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she’s made the guilty pay. Soon a rift threatens to splinter CJ’s family, friends, and their entire Northern California community and for the first time, CJ has found something she wants to fight for.ģ. Then her mom decides to sell the shop-to the family who swindled CJ’s grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. She doesn’t buy into Hannah’s romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. She’s never lived up to her mom’s type A ambition, and she’s perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family’s flower shop. Katsuyamas never quit-but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura When these students’ lives collide, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget.Ģ. Rick Woo is the Yale-bound child prodigy bane of Ever’s existence whose perfection hides a secret.īoy-crazy, fashion-obsessed Sophie Ha turns out to have more to her than meets the eye.Īnd under sexy Xavier Yeh’s shell is buried a shameful truth he’ll never admit. In its place, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound, adults turn a blind eye, snake-blood sake flows abundantly, and the nightlife runs nonstop.īut not every student is quite what they seem:Įver is working toward becoming a doctor but nurses a secret passion for dance. Gone is Chien Tan, the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. Zero supervision.”Īnd just like that, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. “Our cousins have done this program,” Sophie whispers. TO READ FOR ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Reading can’t solve all the problems in the world (though we wish it did), but it can be a direct way to support Asian authors and learn more about their experiences, cultures, and histories through storytelling. If you’re looking for reads about the Asian American experience of the past and present, we also got you covered. To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, here are 38 books by Asian authors that have Asian (or Asian-inspired, in the case of fantasy worlds!) protagonists at the helm. It’s important to recognize that the Asian American experience is not a monolith and there are still many stories to be told. But the history is often not taught in schools and is boiled down to a singular experience. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and it celebrates the cultures, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.įrom “the sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II” to the activists organizing against Asian hate today, there has been a long history of Asian individuals in this country.