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This year's primary read is All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung. With warmth, candor, and startling insight, Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets. |
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My Tree by Hope LimWhen a young boy's beloved plum tree falls in a storm, he feels like he's lost both a friend and a connection to his old home. A South Korean immigrant herself, Hope Lim brings her perspective on the struggle for child immigrants to feel at home to bear through spare, poetic text, perfectly matched by soft, lyrical illustrations by Korean artist Il Sung Na.
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Eyes That Weave The World's Wonders by Joanna HoIn this heartfelt companion to Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a young trans-racial adoptee learns to appreciate both her birth culture and her adopted family's culture, discovering these differences are part of her and what makes her beautiful. |
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A Sky of Paper Stars by Susie YiAfter making an ill-fated wish that results in the death of her grandmother, Halmoni, in Korea, guilt-ridden Yuna finds her body turning into paper and must bring Halmoni back or turn into paper forever.
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The All-American by Joe MilanDeported to South Korea after a misadventure with his adopted family, 17-year-old Bucky Yi, as one mishap leads to another, must rely on his physical strength, character and attitude to stubbornly rebuild himself from scratch to make it back home—wherever that might be. |
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Monstrous : A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah MyerBullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode.
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Inconvenient Daughterby Lauren J. SharkeyRowan Kelly knows she's lucky. After all, if she hadn't been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones - they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she'll never know if she has her mother's eyes, or if she'd be in America at all had her adoptive parents been able to conceive. Rowan sets out to prove that she can be someone's first choice. |
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Join The One Book Project Reading Challenge on Beanstack! Earn badges and check out reads that focus on themes of multiracial adoption, blended families, and how our cultural identity shapes who we are. |
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