Vietnamese/Vietnamese American
A Bánh Mì for Two
Age 14 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Genre: Romance, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Intergenerational
A Different Pond
Age 07 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Discrimination: Language Ability, Educator Resource, Engagement Tool: Arts, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, IYNB Recommends: ASCA School Counselors 2026, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming Library: Core Picture Books (Current), Welcoming Library: Pine Collection
A Glasshouse of Stars
Age 08 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
A Grain of Rice
Age 11 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Genre: Historical, Loss of Childhood, Natural Disaster/Climate Change, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Environmental Crisis, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Trauma & Healing: Physical Assault, Trauma & Healing: Sexual Assault
A Kids Book About Anti-Asian Hate
Age 05 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Microaggression, Discrimination: Racial, Genre: Nonfiction, Identity: Body Image, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing
A Pho Love Story
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict
A Two-Placed Heart
Age 09 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Language Ability, Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: On Journey, Format: Audiobook, Format: Novel In Verse, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Vietnamese Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict, Welcoming by Community
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
Always With You
Age 08 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Adoption, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Historical, Loss of Childhood, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Welcoming by Community
Angelica and the Bear Prince
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Romance, LGBTQIA+, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Ánh’s New Word: A Story About Learning a New Language
Age 03 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Format: Audiobook, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Vietnamese Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Refugee Camp, Welcoming by Community, Welcoming by Individual
Another Word for Neighbor
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Auntie Q’s Golden Claws Nail Salon
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Identity: Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Blablabla: (Gibberish)
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Immigrant: Education, Multilingual: Spanish, Welcoming by Individual
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, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Historical, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict
Chopsticks Are
Age 03 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Education & Literacy, Multilingual: Japanese Featured Words, Multilingual: Korean Featured Words, Multilingual: Malay Featured Words, Multilingual: Mandarin Featured Words, Multilingual: Taiwanese Featured Words, Multilingual: Thai Featured Words, Multilingual: Vietnamese Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Duck for Turkey Day
Age 06 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Celebrations, Identity: Multiracial, Welcoming by School
Enlighten Me
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Format: Graphic Novel, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Buddhist
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Age 10 or older
Themes: Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Adoption, Identity: Multiracial, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Even Weirder! (WeirDo #2)
Age 07 or older
Themes: Animals, Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Genre: Humor, Identity: Multiracial, Identity: Names & Pronunciations, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Every Little Bit Olive Tran (Olive Tran #1)
Age 06 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Activism, Community Action, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 2nd, Multilingual: Vietnamese Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Intergenerational, Welcoming by Community
Extra Weird! (WeirDo #3)
Age 07 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Generation: 1st, Genre: Humor, Identity: Multiracial, Identity: Names & Pronunciations, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports
Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
Age 14 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Graphic Novel, Loss of Childhood, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Unspecified, Setting: Refugee Camp
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Accolades & Awards: Youth Media Awards, Cross-Group Dating, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generational Differences: Dating, Generational Differences: Gender Roles, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Finding Papa
Age 04 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, 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: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Immigrant: Education, Welcoming by Individual
Girl Giant and the Jade War (Girl Giant and the Monkey King #2)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Identity: Exploration, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Trauma & Healing
Girl Giant and the Monkey King (Girl Giant and the Monkey King #1)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Identity: Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Sports
Gloria Buenrostro Is Not My Girlfriend
Age 14 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Going Home, Coming Home / Ve Nha, Tham Que Huong
Age 03 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Separation: Different Immigration Status, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multiracial, Multilingual: Vietnamese/English Bilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
House of Sticks: A Memoir
Age 18 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Discrimination: Racial, Diverse Abilities: Physical, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generational Differences, Genre: Biography, Genre: Nonfiction, Immigrant: Economic, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Buddhist, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Illness, Trauma & Healing: Intergenerational
House Without Walls
Age 08 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Family Separation: On Journey, Format: Novel In Verse, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Refugee Camp, Trauma & Healing, Unaccompanied Minors