The Year of the Fortune Cookie: Anna Wang

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Boy Underwater

Bad Apple

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

Donuthead

The Schwa Was Here

Project Best Friend (Penelope Perfect Book 1)

When Vee Crawford-Wong’s history teacher assigns an essay on his family history, Vee knows he’s in trouble. His parents—Chinese-born dad and Texas-bred Mom—are mysteriously and stubbornly close-lipped about his ancestors. So, he makes it all up and turns in the assignment. And then everything falls apart.

After a fistfight, getting cut from the basketball team, offending his best friend, and watching his grades plummet, one thing becomes abundantly clear to Vee: No one understands him! If only he knew where he came from… So Vee does what anyone in his situation would do: He forges a letter from his grandparents in China, asking his father to bring their grandson to visit. Astonishingly, Vee’s father agrees. But in the land of his ancestors, Vee learns that the answers he seeks are closer to home then he could have ever imagined.

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The Year of the Fortune Cookie: Anna Wang

Patrice Barton, Andrea Cheng, 2014

Frazzled: Ordinary Mishaps and Inevitable Catastrophes

Booki Vivat, 2017

Boy Underwater

Adam Baron, 2018

Bad Apple

T. R. Burns, 2012

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

Brenda Woods, 2014

Donuthead

Sue Stauffacher, 2003

The Schwa Was Here

Neal Shusterman, 2004

Project Best Friend (Penelope Perfect Book 1)

Chrissie Perry, Hardie Grant, 2015