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10 YA Novels with Asian American Main Characters

Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen (Little, Brown, 2007)

Bitter Melon by Cara Chow (Egmont, 2010)

Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier (Scholastic, 2002)

My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger (Dial, 2008)

Beacon Hill Boys by Ken Mochizuki (Scholastic, 2004)

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013)

Orchards by Holly Thompson (Delacorte, 2011)

Name Me Nobody by Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Hyperion, 1999)

Level Up by Gene Luen Yang, art by Thiem Pham (First Second, 2011)

Girls for Breakfast by David Yoo (Delacorte, 2005)

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In keeping with the first list, here’s a list of suggested titles by and about Native people, this time geared more towards young adult readers (turns out there’s lots more than Sherman Alexie and Leslie Marmon Silko out there!):

• Red (Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Haida): Referencing a classic Haida oral narrative, this spectacular full-color graphic novel blends traditional Haida imagery with Japanese manga to tell the powerful story of Red, an orphaned leader so blinded by revenge that he leads his community to the brink of war and destruction.
• The Night Wanderer (Drew Taylor, Ojibwe): Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she’s deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself. But he’s also a little creepy. Little do Tiffany, her father or even her astute Granny Ruth suspect the truth. The mysterious Pierre L’Errant is actually a vampire, returning to his tribal home after centuries spent in Europe. But Tiffany has other things on her mind: her new boyfriend is acting weird, disputes with her father are escalating, and her estranged mother is starting a new life with somebody else. Fed up and heartsick, Tiffany threatens drastic measures and flees into the bush. There, in the midnight woods, a chilling encounter with L’Errant changes everything…for both of them.
• The Lesser Blessed (Richard Van Camp, Dogrib): A powerful coming-of-age story—edgy, stark, and at times, darkly funny that centers around Larry, a Native teenager trying to cope with a painful past and find his place in a confusing and stressful modern world. Skinny as spaghetti, nervy, and self-deprecating, the 16-year-old is an appealing mixture of bravado and vulnerability. His life has held many terrors: an abusive father, blackouts from sniffing gasoline, and an accident that killed several cousins. He has a quick tongue, hallucinations, an appreciation for Iron Maiden, and hot fantasies about Juliet Hope. Eventually, through his friendship with Johnny Beck, a Native from another Nation, Larry develops an expanded world consciousness and a stability that helps him face his dark memories—and create a brighter future.
• Rain is Not My Indian Name (Cynthia Leitich Smith, Mvskoke Creek): It’s been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia’s Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again—at least through the lens of her camera. Hired by her town newspaper to photograph the campers, Rain soon finds that she has to decide how involved She wants to become in Indian Camp. Does she want to keep a professional distance from the intertribal community she belongs to? And just how willing is she to connect with the campers after her great loss? 
  
• Little Brother of War (Gary Robinson, Cherokee & Choctaw): Sixteen-year-old Mississippi Choctaw Randy Cheska has lived most of his young life in the shadow of his older football-hero brother, Jack. After Jack is killed while serving in Iraq, Randy’s father puts even more pressure on Randy to excel in football. But Randy has no interest in sports and has never been good at them. Imagine Randy’s surprise when he discovers stickball, a game he’s immediately drawn to. But stickball is a sport Randy’s father considers a relic of the Choctaw past, when it was known as Little Brother of War and was used to settle disputes between communities. Randy’s determination to play this legendary game, guided by a mysterious visitor, leads him on a challenging and unexpected journey of self-discovery.
• The Warriors (Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki): Jake Forrest enjoys playing lacrosse on the Algonquin Indian reservation where he lives. He understands the way the game ties into his people’s view of the world and their history. After his mother gets a job as an attorney, however, and enrolls Jake in a fancy Washington, D.C., boarding school, Jake finds his world disrupted. The school is lacrosse obsessed. Jake becomes a star of the team, but he’s disturbed by his coach’s failure to grasp the subtleties of the Indian approach to the sport. When a tragic shooting kills the coach, Jake organizes an all-school lacrosse game as a sort of prayer of healing. 
• If I Ever Get Out of Here (Eric Gansworth, Onondaga): Lewis “Shoe” Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he’s not used to is white people being nice to him—people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family’s poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan’s side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis’s home—will he still be his friend?

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