High School Books Winners
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2020 Of Note – Young Adult/High School Literature
Almond by Won-pyung Sohn, Translated by Sandy Joosun Lee (Harper Collins)
Fiction, set in Korea
2018 Of Note – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Analects: An Illustrated Edition by Confucius, Adapted and Illustrated by C.C. Tsai, Translated by Brian Bruya, With a foreword by Michael Puett (Princeton University Press)
Non fiction, set China
2018 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Fiction, set in Taiwan
2020 Of Note – Young Adult/High School Literature (Graphic)
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko (Iron Circus Comics)
Nonfiction, set in Korea
2020 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
Crossing the Farak River by Michelle Aung Thin (Annick Press)
Fiction, set in Myanmar
2018 Of Note – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Dragon Ridge Tombs by Tianxia Bachang, Translated by Jeremy Tiang (Penguin Random House)
Fiction, set China
2016 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee and Susan Elizabeth McClelland (Amulet, an imprint of ABRAMS)
Non-fiction, set in North Korea
2017 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball by Dori Jones Yang (Spark Press)
Fiction, set in China and the U.S.
2018 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu (Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab)
Fiction, set in China
2018 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
Go: A Coming of Age Novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro, Translated by Takami Nieda (AmazonCrossing)
Fiction, set in Japan
2019 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
Indigo Girl by Suzanne Kamata (Gemma Media)
Fiction, set in America and Japan
2020 Of Note – Young Adult/High School Literature
Like Spilled Water by Jennie Liu (Lerner Publishing Group)
Fiction, set in China
2019 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Penguin Young Readers, Kokila)
Fiction, set in the Philippines
2016 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson (Carolrhoda Books)
Non-fiction, set in Japan
2020 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Silence of Bones by June Hur (Macmillan)
Fiction, set in Korea
2017 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
Tanabata Wish by Sara Fujimura (Wishes Enterprises, LLC)
Fiction, set in Japan
2020 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature (Graphic)
Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud, Illustrated by Ameziane (IDW Publishing)
Nonfiction, set in China
2018 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (Harper Collins Publishers)
Fiction, set in East and South Asia
2017 Honorable Mention – Young Adult/High School Literature
Want by Cindy Pon (Simon & Schuster; Simon Pulse)
Fiction, set in Taiwan
2019 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf (Simon & Schuster, Salaam Reads)
Fiction, set in Malaysia
2020 Winner – Young Adult/High School Literature (Graphic)
Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, Translated by Helge Dascher (Drawn & Quaterly)
Nonfiction, set in the Cambodia