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DisplacementKiku Hughes
A teen time-travels into her grandmother's Japanese American incarceration during WWII.
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Patron Saints of Nothing
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But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
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Why this book
Asian identity without the model-minority script.
Who it's for
Young adult. Whoever is at your table.
Conversation starter
How does this family show love, in the big ways and the small ones?
Try this
End of a chapter: the choice you would have made, and why they didn't.
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Two titles that deepen the same conversation.
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