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: Core Picture Books (Current)
A Glasshouse of Stars
Age 08 or older
Themes: Audiobook, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
A Pho Love Story
Age 12 or older
Themes: Audiobook, 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: Genre: 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, Genre: Historical, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Age 10 or older
Themes: Adoption, Discrimination: Racial, Multiracial Identity, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
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
Finding Papa
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: On Journey, Immigrant: Reunion of Family, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Economic Crisis
Gibberish
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Immigrant: Education, Welcoming by Individual
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: Celebrations, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Inside Out and Back Again
Age 09 or older
Themes: Audiobook, Discrimination: Language Ability, Family Relationship: Parents, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Camp, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
It’s Not Like It’s A Secret
Age 12 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Dating, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, LGBTQIA+
Last Flight
Age 04 or older
Themes: Audiobook, Family Relationship: Siblings, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Lucy and Linh
Age 12 or older
Themes: Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st
My Footprints
Age 05 or older
Themes: Discrimination: Racial, 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 New Home: Immigrant Children Speak
Age 08 or older
Themes: Anthology, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Generation: 1st, Multilingual Character, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Our Stories Carried Us Here
Age 12 or older
Themes: Citizenship, Discrimination: Cultural, Engagement Tool: Video, Graphic Novel, 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, Genre: Historical, Recommended: "Cartography" Companion Reads, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Religious Background: Jewish, Religious Background: Muslim, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current)
Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu #1)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Audiobook, Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 2nd, Genre: Action Adventure, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports, Welcoming by School
Team Chu and the Epic Hero Quest (Team Chu #2)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 2nd, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports
Thao: A Picture Book
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Own Voices/Lived Experience
The Best We Could Do
Age 15 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: 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
The Mystery of the Painted Fan (The Nguyen Kids #3)
Age 06 or older
Themes: Canadian Connection, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Cultural, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 2nd, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, LGBTQIA+, The Arts, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend