Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

Tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker.

A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.

A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves.

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.