filipino americans

"The story of businessman Pedro Flores, inventor of the yo-yo"--Provided by publisher.

When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.

Filipina American Lucia grapples with teenage angst, family expectations, and friendship woes as she reluctantly prepares for her debutante ball.

"Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships"--Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old Ruby Santos, grappling with her mother's death and financial struggles, discovers her father's secret life as a magical underworld delivery person, leading her to take over his station and jump train lines, only to realize the perilous nature of the job and the dangerous world she has entered.

Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.

Twelve-year-old Mia uses Filipino folk magic to take down the shady chef brothers who are threatening her family's food truck.

Filipino American siblings JJ and Althea struggle to belong in school and clash over the best way to be accepted. They both agree that working long hours at their family's food truck, listening to their mother's stories about Filipino folklore, doesn't seem to help their situation. However, when the creatures from their mother's tales suddenly appear and threaten their family's livelihood, the two must band together and embrace who they are if they are to save their family.

When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.

Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death.