Middle Grade Books With Asian Characters. This summer, kaia and her friends are part of a creative arts camp, where they’re working on a short movie to enter in a contest. Hindu mythology and the daughter of a star and mortal!
Instead of casting asians as sidekicks or background characters, these kids’ books center asian people as the heroes of their stories, whether they’re overcoming an internal conflict or fighting space crime with superpowers. Author is partly of korean descent. When lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s korean folktales arrives, prompting lily to unravel a secret family history.
Ali & aisha saeed, eds.
Girl giant and the monkey king. Not what i’d usually read but hello!!! Growing up during the chinese cultural revolution (juvenile memoir) guo yue little leap forward: The first in a trilogy inspired by ancient india and hindu epics, the tiger at midnight intertwines the stories of esha, an assassin, and kunal, a soldier.