AANHPI Heritage Month

Mimi’s waipo loves liangcha, but Mimi thinks her grandmother’s favorite tea is just too bitter. It burns her lips; it tastes sour on her tongue, and it smells like her grandfather’s socks—yuck! Mimi secretly feeds her liangcha to the fish, and hides it in a plant, and spits it down the sink—anything to avoid drinking it again. But Waipo has an idea. One morning, she makes a new batch of liangcha for them to share. Will her secret ingredient be enough to win Mimi over?

When she attains the ability to hear what boys are thinking, Clara hopes her newfound powers will reverse her ex-best friend’s betrayal but ends up making a mess of everything and must fix her mistakes as she tries to figure out old friendships and new ones.

Rory Parker knows not to step a foot in, on, or around the house next door. He’s seen things creeping in the shadows, has had encounters with spirits, and lost a best friend to the house’s malevolence. But when his new neighbors, Jack and his lovable family, move into the house next door, Rory makes it his duty to protect them at all costs. Soon, Rory understands he’ll need the help of his new friend and some friendly ghosts in order to stand a chance at defeating whatever lurks within its walls.

After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.

It can spin and roll, leap and twirl. You can stretch it between your hands or swing it between your legs. The tricks you can do with one are nearly endless. No wonder the yo-yo is one of the most successful toys ever made! And its popularity began with Pedro Flores, a Filipino businessman.

Reshma loves her family’s hands-on eating style, but when she discovers her friends have different eating customs, she worries about what they will think when they see how her family eats.