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The list below includes titles on Chinese Americans and China. It is a relatively short list. We welcome your recommendations of titles to add. Also, see more titles on these lists:

• Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
• Japanese Americans
• South Asian Americans

Also, find brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people’s history at the Zinn Education Project.

Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Powells.com (an independent, unionized bookstore) and/or Bookshop (indie bookstore platform). A small percentage from book sales through these links goes to Teaching for Change. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).

 

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

By Kat Zhang, Charlene Chua

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

By Grace Lin

Bringing In the New Year

By Grace Lin

Dim Sum for Everyone!

By Grace Lin, Grace Lin (Illustrator)

I Dream of Popo

By Livia Blackburne and Julia Kuo (Illustrator)

Kite Flying

By Grace Lin

Landed

By Milly Lee, Yangsook Choi (Illustrator)

Mama and Papa Have a Store

By Amelia Lau Carling

Spanish edition: La Tienda de Mamá Y Papá

Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School: Based on a True Story *

By Traci Huahn and Michelle Jing Chan (Illustrator)

Soup Day: A Picture Book

By Melissa Iwai

Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

By Ying-Hwa Hu

Tofu Takes Time

By Helen H. Wu and Julie Jarema (Illustrator)

The Ugly Vegetables

By Grace Lin, Grace Lin (Illustrator)

Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain

By Russell Freedman

Coolies

By Yin

Dragonwings

By Laurence Yep

Dragon's Gate

By Laurence Yep

The Great Wall Of Lucy Wu*

By Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean

By Sigrid Schmalzer, Melanie Linden Chan

Mountain Chef

By Annette Bay Pimentel, Rich Lo

Paper Son: Lee's Journey to America

By Helen Foster James

American Born Chinese

By Gene Luen Yang

A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series)

By Ronald Takaki

Dragon Hoops

By Gene Luen Yang

Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America

By David H. T. Wong

Finally Heard

By Kelly Yang

Finally Seen

By  Kelly Yang

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

By Paula Yoo

Front Desk*

By Kelly Yang

Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words

By Margarita Engle

Love from A to Z*

By S. K. Ali

New From Here

By Kelly Yang

Sugar

By Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

By Maxine Hong Kingston

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

By Ronald Takaki

A Free Life

By Ha Jin

 

A Good Fall

By Ha Jin

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