Young fans of Ernie Cline's Ready Player One will love this classic video game inspired mystery filled with elements of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.What if playing video games was prepping you to solve an incredible real-world puzzle and locate a priceless treasure?Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle d...

Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty.World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats.But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested. It’s a terrifying time to be Japanese in America. But one thing doesn’t ...

There once was a snailwho lived in a shell,and inside his shell,the Snail created wonders.This is the story of Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese American artist who gave the worldlight. The world, however, was not always so giving in return.This groundbreaking paean to Noguchi’s creativity explores his emotionalhardships through the US incarceration of Japanese Americans, the effects ofpersonal isolation, and the power of art to heal those wo...

“A gripping saga of wartime survival.” —Kirkus Reviews, StarredBased on a true story, this World War II novel by Scott O’Dell Award winner Graham Salisbury tells how Zenji, 17, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese.Zenji Watanabe was born in Hawaii. He’s an American, but the Japanese wouldn’t know it by the look of him. And that’s exactly what the US government is counting on.Because he speaks both E...

2015 National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Best Suspense NovelImagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. Kidnapped…Alone…Terrified.Now forget her…Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved into a dirty van and, from the first moment of her kidnapping, feels a calm desire for two things: to save her unborn son and to exact merciless ...

The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). It was the recipient of six major awards, including the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Now Chang-rae Lee has written a powerful and beautifully crafted second novel that leaves ...

**A GOLDEN KITE AWARD WINNER • From the acclaimed author of Flygirl comes this powerful WWII romance between two Japanese teens caught in the cogs of an unwinnable war.“Delicate and incandescent by turns, this jewel of a tale of war and love is breathtakingly courageous.”—Elizabeth Wein, bestselling author of Code Name Verity“Illuminates the numbing terror of war and the healing power of music and love.”—Laura Ruby, Printz Award winner and National Book Aw...

**Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the yearNamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIMEA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide**One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's f...

**A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yōkai and oni and yūrei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video gamesA Penguin Classic**Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yūrei ghosts, and other monsters and magical creatures have long lurked in the shadows of Japanese culture, appearing as divine beings in eighth-...

Saigon has fallen, and two Vietnamese refugees meet in an Arkansas relocation camp before setting out on a rip-roaring road trip across America. Qui Nguyen tells the hilarious and only slightly not-true version of how his parents met and built a life for themselves in a new land.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in February 2020.Original Music by Shane RettigDirector: Tim DangProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergWi...

A captivating tale of two families whose interlocking fates span the globe from PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author Joan SilberEthan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family—a Thai wife and two kids living in Queens. In the aftermath of this revelation, Ethan’s mother spends a year working abroad, returning much changed, as events introduce her tothe other wife. Across town, Ethan’s half brothers are cau...

During WWII in Seattle, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government's orders to forcibly remove and incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. As he struggles to reconcile his country's betrayal with his passionate belief in the US Constitution, Gordon begins a 50-year journey toward a greater understanding of America's triumphs - and a confrontation with its failures.Includes an interview with playwright Jeanne Sakata.Ho...