Celebrate AAPI with these YA Books + Authors!

Discover your latest read with these incredible AAPI YA authors and their equally incredible books. We’re trying – and failing – to contain our excitement at these wonderful stories! Tune in from anywhere to hear from SAYANTANI DASGUPTA, author of Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute; ANNA GRACIA, author of The Misdirection of Fault Lines; SANJI PATEL, author of Sleepless in Dubai; and E.L. SHIN, author of The Queens of New York. It’s going to be a blast!

Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute by SAYANTANI DASGUPTA: For Eila Das, following her head has always been easy enough. But the summer brings complications in the form of a fellow camper named Rahul. If the situation wasn’t strange enough already, kids at the camp are being scouted for a show set in the regency era of all things. In this touching retelling of Sense and Sensibility, a girl struggles for the first time in her life with that age-old decision: head or heart.

The Misdirection of Fault Lines by ANNA GRACIA: Why are you here? This is the question that every young player asks herself as she sends a tennis ball whipping through the air. For Violetta, her mother; for Leylah, to prove herself; for Alice, to justify everything it costed to get there. And for all of them, to win. One week at the elite Bastille invitational tournament – a week of fierce competition, revelation, and confrontation on and off the court – will decide all their futures.

Sleepless in Dubai by SAJNI PATEL: Nikki’s family trip to Dubai should be her chance to celebrate the five days of Diwali in style, and maybe build up her photography portfolio while she’s at it. If it weren’t for Nikki’s next-door neighbor, Yash, being on the same flight, that is. But a 12-hour flight and an ocean away from their rocky history, can betrayals and conflicting ambitions be set aside long enough for the pair to discover the true meaning of the Festival of Lights?

The Queens of New York by E.L. SHEN: Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang have been inseparable since they met at a Lunar New Year festival at seven years old. But when Everett’s chance at a theatrical lead role, a STEM program scholarship, and Jia’s commitment to her parent’s Chinatown restaurant scatter them across the country for the summer, the trio has to find new ways to lean on each other to prove that their ten-year bond is bigger than any distance forced between them.

Great YA Reads for AAPI Month