Teen Asian Pacific Islander Heritage

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"Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--

2) Zodiac rising

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Zhao, Katie

Series

Descendants of the zodiac volume 1

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"When a student is killed over priceless treasure, the Descendants of Chinese zodiac magic assemble a crew to avenge the murder and heist back what is rightfully theirs"--

3) The dark becomes her

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Lin, Judy I

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When a ghost from the spirit world transforms her sister, Ruby Chen confronts the dark upheaval in Vancouver's Chinatown as she enters into an ancient battle over the gateway to the underworld as she attempts to save her sister and her community.

4) Legend of the white snake

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Lee, Sher

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Zhen, a snake spirit, transforms into a boy and must hide his true identity after falling for the headstrong Prince Xian, in a romantic retelling of the traditional Chinese folktale.

5) Dragonfruit

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Lucier, Makiia

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Forced into a life of exile, Hanalei of Tamarind is reunited with her childhood best friend Sam to find a rare dragonfruit whose magic can save his mother, the princess — offering Hanalei the chance to return home and right a terrible wrong.

6) A bánh mì for two

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Nguyen, Trinity

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Told in alternating voices, while studying abroad in Saigon, Vivi falls for Lan, a street food vendor and food blogger, who is suffering from writer's block since her father's passing.

7) Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot

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Chhibber, Preeti

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This laugh-out-loud debut romance introduces perfectly imperfect Payal Desai, whose plan to get her long-time crush to finally notice her is destined for success, but only if she ignores her budding feelings for her archnemesis...Payal Desai has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman year Spanish class. At a party during the spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up...

8) Gita Desai is not here to shut up

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Patel, Sonia

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As memories of childhood sexual assault resurface in her first year of college, eighteen-year-old East Indian American Gita struggles to maintain her model student persona.

9) A crooked mark

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Kao, Linda

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Tasked with hunting down those whose soul the Devil has marked, seventeen-year-old Matthew begins to question everything when his first solo mission is sixteen-year-old Rae Winters, the girl he has fallen for.

10) An echo in the city

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Song, K. X

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"Two teenagers come of age against the backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests"--

11) Gloria Buenrostro is not my girlfriend

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Hoàng, Brandon

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As one of only two Asian Americans in his school and often left out, Gary jumps at the chance of breaking into the school's popular clique by befriending the most beautiful girl in school, but as he comes closer to achieving his goal, Gary also risks losing the only person who sees the real him.

12) I'd rather burn than bloom

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Rogers, Shannon C. F

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Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death.

13) The boy you always wanted

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Quach, Michelle

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Attempting to fulfill her dying grandfather's dying wish, seventeen-year-old Francine enlists Ollie Tran to act as his honorary male, but the mounting lies and romantic feelings they develop complicate their plan.

14) Rana Joon and the one & only now

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Etaat, Shideh

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Set in 1996 southern California, high school senior Rana Joon wants to honor her deceased best friend by entering a rap contest and living authentically as a lesbian, but feels conflicted by her Iranian family's expectations.

15) All the things we never said

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Rahman, Yasmin

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Suffering from anxiety and depression, sixteen-year-old Mehreen Miah joins MementoMori, a website that allocates matches a method and date of death, and meets Cara and Olivia, but as the girls grow closer they realize the value of living, starting a sinister game as the website will not let them go.

16) Sleepless in Dubai

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Patel, Sajni

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Nikki, an aspiring photographer, thinks she is embarking on a trip of a lifetime to Dubai to celebrate Diwali, until she finds out Yash, the boy-next-door with whom she has a rocky history, is also taking part.

17) The name drop

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Lee, Susan

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Discovering a mix-up due to their shared Korean name, interns Elijah Ri and Jessica Lee decide to stay switched so Elijah can escape his controlling father while Jessica secures college recommendations, but the one thing they didn't count on was falling in love.

18) Gorgeous gruesome faces

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Cheng, Linda

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Disgraced teen idol Sunny, comes face to face with Candie, her former bandmate, and the demons of their shared past when the two enter a K-pop competition that devolves into a deadly nightmare.

19) Didn't see that coming

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Sutanto, Jesse Q

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"A rom com about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she's never met IRL--until she unwittingly transfers to his school"--

20) If you could see the sun

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Liang, Ann

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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school. When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or even...