#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series! If You Liked Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, try Two Parrots by Rashin, an award-winning new artist from Iran, who brings Rumi’s classic to life. Both are oh so clever avian adventures. BookDragon review here.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked the Twilight series, try The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda because both series feature undead love triangles caught up in heart-stopping chills and thrills… and vampires. Did we mention lots of vampires?! BookDragon review here.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Twisted Laurie Halse Anderson, try Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger because both are about high schoolers who experience extreme transformations, and the challenges they face among their peers for their honest decisions. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life, try First Daughter by Mitali Perkins because both feature feisty tennaged girls- who happen to be adopted - who are determined to figure out who they really are. BookDragon review here.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon! If you liked Are You There God, it’s me, Margaret, try Bird by Crystal Chan because both feature strong adolescent girls caught between two very different parents and backgrounds trying to figure out where each fits in the world. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Princess stories, try The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Real Princesses by Shirin Yim Bridges because princesses come from every corner of the world, in all colors, shapes, and sizes! Click here for the BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked The Invention of Hugo Cabret, try The Arrival by Shaun Tan because both are stupendous graphic adventures into fantastical worlds featuring poignant human relationships. Click here for BookDragon review.
WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Dear America: The Fences Between Us, try Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling because even in times of war, true friendships can be sustained regardless of someone else’s fences and unjust barriers. Click here for BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Peeled by Joan Bauer try Nothing But the Truth (and a few white lies) by Justina Chen Headley because truth eventually conquers all…even if you need to use a few white lies along the way. Click here for the Smithsonian BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Looking for Alaska by John Green, try If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan because both are sigh-inducing stories about first love with someone so unexpected that sometimes, even true love can mean having to say goodbye. Click here for the Smithsonian Bookdragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
If you liked Old Yeller, try Black Flame by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane because both will make you remember, appreciate, weep over why dogs are indeed our very best friends. Click here to be taken to the BookDragon review.
#WeNeedDiverseBooks summer reading series SPECIAL with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon!
The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s BookDragon is partnering up with WNDB for a special edition of our summer reading series. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday through the rest of the summer, the BookDragon will premiere a new WNDB and BookDragon sponsored Summer Reading Series recommendation. Each graphic will also take you to the BookDragon’s excellent review of the book. WNDB will share the graphic also. So join us for the ongoing Summer Reading Series and discover new titles that embrace and amplify every ethnicity, culture, orientation, ability, religion, socioeconomic background, and more. Not to mention, these are just great books! Let’s get reading!
If you liked the Artemis Fowl series, try Ash Mistry Chronicles by Sarwat Chadda because both feature an intrepid teen hero who survivies swashbuckling international adventures that are not of this world – at least not as we mere mortals know it. Click here to be taken to the BookDragon review.