Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month-YA, J, BR, E Collections-Updated 4/30/22
 

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1. The endless steppe: growing up in Siberia

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Hautzig, Esther Rudomin
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Childrens Biography
JB HAUTZIG
Middlecreek Community - Childrens Biography
JB HAUTZIG
North Regional - Childrens Biography
JB HAUTZIG
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During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

2. Sylvia and Aki

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Conkling, Winifred
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Duraleigh Road - Childrens Fiction
J CONKLING
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At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stopschool segregation.

3. The weight of our sky

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Hanna Alkaf
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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult
YA ALKAF
Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA ALKAF
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA ALKAF
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"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother"--