Books

Apple Yengko knows what it’s like to be different. She has a weird Filipino nickname, she’s the only Asian at her school, and she’s obsessed with t...

Soledad has always been able to escape into the stories she creates. Just like her mother always could. And Soledad has needed that escape more tha...

Rocky Rivera arrives in the U.S. from the Philippines the day that Jimi Hendrix dies. So begins a blazing coming-of-age story suffused with the...

In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports f...

Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza sho...

Welcome to Manila in the turbulent period of the Philippines' late dictator. It is a world in which American pop culture and local Filipino traditi...

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to Am...

In Gabriela Lee's first book, she has meticulously and intelligently reworked numerous genre tropes. Set in future Manila, a gleaming metropolis wh...

Dorky Diego Domingo is the kind of kid who never gets into fights. When facing down bullies at school, it isn’t even a choice between fight or flig...

Regina was born and raised in the small town of Heridos, where gods and spirits walked the earth.Until they didn't.Ten years ago, the town's harves...

This dark fantasy is sure to take your breath away.The rules are strict and absolute:Rule No. 1: Don't kill the body you inhabit.Rule No. 2: Never ...

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's second novel, Magdalena, presents the stories of three generations of women in the Philippines against the backdrops o...

Written by Eugene Evasco 2002 National Book Award, Best Young Adult LiteratureAnina is a Badjao, growing up in the company of the sea. Like a frie...

It is the story of a 15 year old boy who joined the Katipunan. KKK at that time, the secret revolutionary society has just been discovered by the S...

Twelve-year-old Charlotte Lockard and eleven-year-old Ben Boxer are separated by more than a thousand miles. On the surface, their lives seem vast...

As their senior year approaches, four diverse friends united by their weekly Dungeons & Dragons game struggle to figure out real life. Archie t...

Winner of the Centennial Literary Prize in 1998, My Sad Republic is a story of love, obsession and loss, set against the epic background of the Phi...

"I am just glad that someone wrote about the Filipino-American experience in Filipino (Tagalog), and a novel to boot! I think that is pretty histor...

“Supremo Andro!” That is what Andro wants to hear when he becomes a sixth grader. Which is why he decided to run as Supremo of the Katipunan.He di...

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's poetic new novel, The Newspaper Widow, is set in the Philippines in 1909 during the early years of the United State's ...

In her debut novel, Patty Enrado highlights a compelling but buried piece of American history: the Filipino-American contribution to the farm labo...

In a TALA Online tournament in the town of Balanga, all the players fell dead, save for Janus. Soon after that, teen after teen suffered deaths in...