Asian-American Fiction   Kavita Daswani  Indie Girl Fifteen-year-old Indie Konkipuddi has always dreamed of becoming a fashion reporter. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine, even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Her neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend her weekends picking Play-Doh off of someone else's Persian carpets, but when Indie scores a juicy gossip tidbit about a movie star, she thinks she might just have an "in" with the publisher. Justina Chen Headley  Girl Overboard After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.   Cynthia Kadohata  Kira-Kira Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.   An Na  A Step From Heaven A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.   Cindy Pon  Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.   Graham Salisbury  Under the Blood Red Sun Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.   Kashmira Sheth  Keeping Corner In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. Jordan Sonnenblick  Zen and the Art of Faking it    When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master. Mariko Tamaki  Skim Presents the whole gamut of tortured teen life--friends, love, depression, suicide, and cliques--through the eyes of Skim, a.k.a. Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a would-be Wiccan goth at a girls' academy in Toronto during the 1990s.   Gene Luen Yang  American Born Chinese Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.     More Asian-American titles... Ann E. Burg All the Broken Pieces Melody Carlson Just Ask: Kim: Diary of a Teenage Girl, book 1   Meant to be: Kim, Diary of a Teenage Girl, book 2   Falling up: Kim, Diary of a Teenage Girl, book 3   That Was Then...: Kim, Diary of a Teenage Girl, book 4 Linda Crew Children of the River Chris Crutcher Whale Talk Kavita Daswani Indie Girl Mel Glenn Split Image: A Portrait in Poems Justina Chen Headley Girl Overboard   Nothing but the Truth (And a Few White Lies) Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira   Weedflower Jean Kwok Girl in Translation Adeline Yen Mah Chinese Cinderella An Na A Step From Heaven   The Fold Joanne Oppenheim Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference Margi Preus Heart of a Samurai Graham Salisbury House of the Red Fish   Under the Blood Red Sun Allen Say Drawing From Memory Gary D. Schmidt Trouble Jordan Sonnenblick Zen and the Art of Faking it Mariko Tamaki Skim Andrea Warren Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese Other YA titles featuring Asian characters... Dang Thuy Tram Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: the Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Nancy Bo Flood Warriors in the Crossfire Erik Christian Haugaard The Samurai's Tale Hermann Hesse Siddhartha Minfong Ho The Stone Goddess Colleen Houck Tiger's Curse   Tiger's Quest   Tiger's Voyage Sherryl Jordan The Hunting of the Last Dragon Helen Kim The Long Season of Rain Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window Lat Kampung Boy Alison Lloyd Year of the Tiger Yan Ma The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl Patricia McCormick Sold Kyoko Mori Shizuko's Daughter Donna Jo Napoli Bound Soseki Natsume Botchan Cindy Pon 1. Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia   2. Fury of the Phoenix Amjed Qamar Beneath My Mother's Feet Kashmira Sheth Keeping Corner Suzanne Fisher Staples Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind   Shiva's Fire   The House of Djinn Jeff Stone Five Ancestors, book 1: Tiger   Five Ancestors, book 2: Monkey   Five Ancestors, book 3: Snake   Five Ancestors, book 4: Crane   Five Ancestors, book 5: Eagle Nahoko Uehashi Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit     last updated 11/30/2011