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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature

Purpose of this award is to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit. The awards are announced each January during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting.

Adult Fiction

Deceit and Other Possibilities by Vanessa Hua

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies

Adult Non-Fiction

Picture Bride : Stories by Barbara Kawakami

Changing Season : a Father, a Daughter, a Family Farm by Mas and Nikko Masumoto

Young Adult

Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee

Outrun the Moon by Lee, Stacey
Call Number: YA F LEE-S (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780399175411
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
On the eve of the San Fransisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive

Watched by Marina Budhos

Children's

The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly

The Land of Forgotten Girls by Kelly, Erin Entrada
Call Number: JUV F KEL (Juvenile Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062238641
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

Momotaro Xander and the Lost Island of Monsters by Margaret Dilloway

Picture Book

Puddle by Hyewon Yum

No Honor Book