Ghost Book

Pathfinder

Monster Busters

The Battle of the Sun

Hot Air

Marv and the Pool of Peril

City in the Clouds

The Seer of Shadows

Back to the Future meets The Joy Luck Club in this YA contemporary romance about a Korean American girl sent back to the ’90s to (reluctantly) help her teenage mom win Homecoming Queen.

Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Samantha Kang has never gotten along with her mother, Priscilla—and has never understood her bougie-nightmare, John Hughes high school expectations. After a huge fight between them, Sam is desperate to move forward—but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.

To her shock, Sam finds herself back in high school . . . in the ’90s . . . with a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now this Gen Z girl must try to fit into an analog world. She’s got the fashion down, but everything else is baffling. What is “microfiche”? What’s with the casual racism and misogyny? And why does it feel like Priscilla is someone she could actually be . . . friends with?

Sam's blast to the past has her finding the right romance in the wrong time while questioning everything she thought she knew about her mom . . . and herself. Will Sam figure out what she needs to do to fix things for her mom so that she can go back to a time she understands? Brimming with heart and humor, Maurene Goo’s time-travel romance asks big questions about what exactly one inherits and loses in the immigrant experience.

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Ghost Book

Remy Lai, 2023

Pathfinder

Mark Zug, Angie Sage, 2014

Monster Busters

Cornelia Funke, Glenys Ambrus, 2015

The Battle of the Sun

Jeanette Winterson, 2009

Hot Air

Sandrine Dumas Roy, Emmanuelle Houssais, 2013

Marv and the Pool of Peril

Alex Falase-Koya, 2022

City in the Clouds

Tim Jessell, Tony Abbott, 1999

The Seer of Shadows

Avi, 2008