![]() ![]() Gondra's Treasure by Linda Sue Park, illus. Mitali Perkins expertly explores personal identity, faith, trauma and ethnocentrism, cleverly using a dual narrative to depict both points of view. ![]() In Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99, 14-up) two teens join their youth group's trip to Kolkata. Here are a few of the truly top-notch books published by Asian/Pacific Americans in 2019. The date was chosen to "commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869." The Month started in 1978 as a week-long observance and was expanded to a month in 1990. May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. ![]()
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