Paul Hiroshima had it all. He was charming and good looking, known for his artistic talents and a great dancer.
It’s not easy growing up
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Metropolitans By Carol Goodman Viking Books for Young Readers, 2017 Meet Kiku, Madge, Joe, and Walt, four 13-year-olds who find themselves at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and pulls the United States into World War II. As everyone tries […]
Book recommendations — Friends, family and overcoming adversity.
When Thai police detectives Sonchai Jitpleecheep and Pichai Apiradee are given orders to follow U.S. Marine Sergeant William Bradley around Bangkok, they are not told why.
Book recommendations — Solving mysteries and rebuilding new worlds … the magic of teamwork
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Elementary: Blood and Ink By Adam Christopher Titan Books, 2016 Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson are back in this second installment of Adam Christopher’s novelization of CBS’s TV series “Elementary.” This time, they are investigating the death of a CFO of a secretive hedge fund who had been stabbed […]
Must-reads, on family
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly Keiko’s Journey By Kay Hirai Chin Music Press, 2015 Kay Hirai was still a young child when World War II broke out in Japan. Her mother, an American citizen, had traveled back to Japan to care for her aging uncle, but they became trapped and struggled under the harsh […]
Inspiring stories of strong, young people
When she was 13, Yeonmi Park and her mother were smuggled across the Yalu River from their North Korean border village to China.
Top 10 reads of 2016
Christmas may be over but the gift of books and reading (at least, in my opinion) is forever.
American identity — Book Recommendations
For her entire school career, Jasmine de los Santos has worked hard to get good grades with the hopes of getting scholarships to help pay for college.
NWAW’s month book recs — Stories about historical events that resonate today
By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly “Boxers” By Gene Luen Yang First Second, 2013 It’s 1898, and foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the Chinese countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao, a young man living with his father and two brothers, has had enough and decides to do something about it. He joins — […]
Book recommendations — Unlikely heroes and heroines
The Koh-i-Noor diamond has been a centuries-long point of contention between the United Kingdom and its former colony of India.
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