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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	Weedflower Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006) Shelf Number: J FICTION/KAD After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
	The Year of the Dog: a Novel Grace Lin (Little, Brown, c2006) Shelf Number: J FICTION/LIN The year 2006 is the Year of the Dog in the Chinese calendar. Lin tells the story of young Pacy who, as she celebrates the New Year with her family, discovers this is the year she is supposed to "find herself."
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