Asian American Heritage Month

	Celebrate Asian American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Asian Americans. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel = Si Lakas at ang Makibaka Hotel Anthony D. Kuwento Robles (Children's Book Press, 2006) Shelf Number: EASY/ROB When Lakas strolls through his neighborhood one sunny afternoon, the last thing he expects to find is a group of tap-dancing, drum-beating, karaoke-singing new friends. But his friends face a crisis: their home, the Makibaka Hotel, is about to be sold. They must pack their belongings and leave in 30 days. But in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, where is there to go? Their rollicking protest against eviction becomes a clarion call to the community, but is it enough to save the Makibaka?
	Landed Milly Lee (Farrar, 2006) Shelf Number: EASY/LEE Based on the experiences of the author's father-in-law, this book recounts a disturbing chapter in Chinese-American history. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, new immigrants are detained at San Francisco's Angel Island until they are called to take a difficult oral exam before they can "land.
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	My Mother's Sari Sandhya Rao (North South Books, c2006) Shelf Number: EASY/RAO One long stretch of cloth is what Mother always wears--"elegant yet so graceful. The mystery of the sari can be magic for a child, winding and weaving, just like the connection between a child and its mother.
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	Mystery Bottle Kristen Balouch (Hyperion Books for Children, c2006) Shelf Number: EASY/BAL One day, a boy in Brooklyn receives a package from Iran. When he uncorks the mysterious bottle that lies within, a great wind transports him over oceans and mountains, straight into the arms of his grandfather.
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	A Place Where Sunflowers Grow Amy Lee-Tai (Children's Book Press, c2006) Shelf Number: EASY/LEE Under the harsh summer sun, Mari’ s art class has begun. But it’ s hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows — especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari’ s family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow, glimmers of hope begin to surface — in the eyes of a kindly art teacher, in the tender words of Mari’ s parents, and in the smile of a new friend.
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	Three Names of Me Mary Cummings (A. Whitman, c2006) Shelf Number: EASY/CUM Ada has three names. Wada Bin is what the caregivers called her at her Chinese orphanage. Ada is the name her adoptive parents gave her as the three traveled home to America. And there is a third name, a name the infant Ada only heard whispered by her Chinese mother. That name, unknown but treasured, is someplace in Ada's heart.
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