YA Asian Immigrant Fiction
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compiled by Elissa and Steve Webber (elissansteve@hotmail.com)
posted to YALSA-BK, May 2000


Carlson, Lori    American Eyes
Budhos, Marina   Remix; Conversations With Immigrant
Baillie, Allan   Little Brother
Betancourt, Jeanne  More Than Meets The Eye
Chin, Frank  Donald Duk
Crew, Linda   Children of the River
Garland, Sherry   Shadow of the Dragon
Garland, Sherry   Song of the Buffalo Boy.
Gogol, Sara   Vatsana^Òs Lucky New Year
Kadohata, Cynthia   The Floating World
Lee, Gus    Honor and Duty  (Sequel to: China Boy)
Lee, Marie G.   Finding My Voice  (Sequel: Saying Goodbye)
Lee, Marie G.   If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun
Mori, Kyoko    One Bird
Sasaki, R.A.   The Loom and Other Stories
Tan, Amy       The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy       The Kitchen God^Òs Wife
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima   My Brother, My Sister and I
Whelan, Gloria   Goodbye Vietnam
Yep, Laurence    Child of the Owl
Yep, Laurence    Dragon's Gate
Yep, Laurence    Dragonwings
Yep, Laurence    Mountain Light
Yep, Laurence    The Star Fisher
Yuan-tsung Chen   The Dragon^Òs Village
Irwin, Hadley    Kim Kimi
Namioka, Lensey  April and the Dragon Lady
Nguy en Qui Thuc Where the Ashes Are: the Odyssey of a Vietnamese family
Butler, Robert Olen   A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Salisbury, Graham   Under the Blood Red Sun
Uchida, Yoshiko  Jar of Dreams
Wakatsuki, Jeanne Houston     Farewell to Manzanar
Levitin, Sonia   Golem and the Dragon Girl
Lee, Marie G.  Necessary Roughness
Ng, Fae Myenne   Bone
Mazer,Anne, ed.  America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories
Wartski, Maureen    Face in the Mirror
Lord, Bette    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Choi, Sook Nyul   Gathering of Pearls
Kim, Helen    The Long Season of Rain
Glenn, Mel   Split Image: a story in poems
Namioka, Lensey   Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
Balgassi, Haemi   Tae's Sonata


"Also if she's not dead set on Asian immigrants, there's Patricia
Beatty's_Lupita Manana_ (Mexican), the whole series of Sonia Levitin, Jess
Mowry's_Ghost Train_ (Haitian), Naomi Shihab Nye's _Habibi_(American going
to Jerusalem), Louise Plummer's _The Romantic Obsessions & Humiliations of
Annie Sehlmeier_ (Holland), and Rukshana Smith's _Sumitra's
Story_(Ungandan Indian moved to London)." 

"Helen Kim, The Long Season of Rain -- a National Book Award finalist
about a girl growing up in Korea with America as a possible destination,
though all of the action is in Korea. Kyoko Mori, Shizuko's Daughter -- a
girl growing up in Japan; in the author's autobiography, Dream of Water,
and her adult essay collection, Polite Lies, she extends that story to
coming to America."