Vietnamese/Vietnamese American
A Different Pond
Age 07 or older
Themes: Award Winner, Discrimination: Language Ability, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Arts, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming Library Selection
A Glasshouse of Stars
Age 08 or older
Themes: Death of Family or Friend, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Fantasy & Folklore
A Pho Love Story
Age 12 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict
Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival
Age 06 or older
Themes: Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Butterfly Yellow
Age 13 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Family Separation: On Journey, Historical, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Duck for Turkey Day
Age 06 or older
Themes: Celebration & Commemoration, Multiracial Identity, Welcoming by School
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Age 10 or older
Themes: Adoption, Death of Family or Friend, Discrimination: Racial, Multiracial Identity, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
Age 13 or older
Themes: Award Winner, Award Winner: Youth Media Awards 2022, Cross-Group Dating, Family Relationship: Parents, Generational Differences: Dating, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Going Home, Coming Home / Ve Nha, Tham Que Huong
Age 03 or older
Themes: Bilingual Book: Vietnamese/English, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Language, Multiracial Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Visiting Home Country
Hundred Years of Happiness
Age 04 or older
Themes: Celebration & Commemoration, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Food & Culture, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Inside Out and Back Again
Age 09 or older
Themes: Death of Family or Friend, Discrimination: Language Ability, Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Camp, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
It’s Not Like It’s A Secret
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, LGBTQIA+
Lucy and Linh
Age 12 or older
Themes: Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st
My Footprints
Age 05 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, LGBTQIA+, Recommended: Counterpoint to AAPI Hate
Not Here to Be Liked
Age 13 or older
Themes: Community Action, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, The Arts
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Age 15 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Language, LGBTQIA+, Multiracial Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict
Our Stories Carried Us Here
Age 12 or older
Themes: Citizenship, Discrimination: Cultural, Engagement Tool: Video, Immigrant: Economic, Immigrant: Education, Immigrant: Religious Freedom, Immigrant: Reunion of Family, Immigrant: Undocumented
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees
Age 09 or older
Themes: Anthology, Discrimination: Racial, Engagement Tool: Discussion, Engagement Tool: I'm Your Neighbor Books Created, Engagement Tool: Video, Historical, Recommended: "Cartography" Companion Reads, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Jewish, Religious Background: Muslim, Welcoming Library Selection
The Best We Could Do
Age 15 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Historical, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Camp, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Asylee, Refugee: War/Conflict
The Lotus Seed
Age 06 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
The Magic Fish
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, LGBTQIA+, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
This Time Will Be Different
Age 13 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, LGBTQIA+
Too Young to Escape
Age 08 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Living with Other Family or Friends, Refugee: War/Conflict
Vietnamerica
Age 14 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Multiracial Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Visiting Home Country
Weeping Under This Same Moon
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: On Journey, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, The Arts, Welcoming by Individual
Wishes
Age 07 or older
Themes: Award Winner: I'm Your Neighbor Book Awards 2022, Engagement Tool: Video, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict, Welcoming Library Selection