Asian Heritage Month

Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on one of the youngest members of the family.

Based on a Chinese folktale, The Magic Pillow tells the story of a poor boy named Ping who is given a magic pillow by a mysterious magician. Ping sees what a lifetime of wealth and power would be like and discovers that the riches of family and freedom are much more valuable.

A young girl's small but powerful act of heroism during China's "Sparrow War" teaches the value of compassion in this poetic picture book.

These 12 exotic retellings of stories relayed to the author in storytelling tents, combined with brilliantly-patterned artwork, reveal the richness of the little-known, faraway lands of Central Asia.

Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open.

Mia Tang and her parents have no other choice but to run a rundown old motel when they immigrate to California. Will she be able to hold on to her job, help the hidden immigrants and pushy guests, escape mean old owner Mr. Yao, and go for her writing dreams?

Ravi's family just move from India. Joe's lived in the same place his whole life. They think they're nothing alike, but a common enemy -- the meanest bully in their class -- forces them to form an alliance and take back control.

Based on the real life Boxer Rebellion, Little Bao harnesses the power of Chinese gods to drive "foreign devils" from China -- but when this grassroots rebellion is successful, what is the cost when other Chinese citizens become "secondary devils"?

Kiku suddenly finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II, until she gets stuck back in time living alongside her.

When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

A family of two generations in China who lived through Mao's cultural revolution piece together their fractured family and the consequences of their pasts in present-day Vancouver.

The vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family shows very different childhoods as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness in Vancouver's Chinatown.

Told through four lives over 50 years, from China's invasion of Tibet to quiet Toronto suburbs, this is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization, displacement, and the lengths we'll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands.