filipino americans

Lito and his twin sister, Nenita, plan to perform a Filipino folk dance at their school's spring festival, but when snickering classmates threaten to derail his confidence, Lito learns to dig deep and keep dancing.

A young Filipino American boy, Bunso, wonders if he is cursed after misbehaving. His family keeps telling him that if he doesn't shape up, the Mumu will get him--but when Bunso goes hunting the Mumu at night to see what the scariness is all about, he finds something very different: a friend.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.