Adrift by Guerrero, Tanya 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022)

BTSB #: 406064 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Adventure Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction Resilience - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Islands - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction

Summary: The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.

Any day with you by Respicio, Mae 

Paperback(Wendy Lamb Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 770601 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 700 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Great-grandfathers - Fiction Motion pictures - Production and direction - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefully prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines.

Any day with you by Respicio, Mae 

BTSB Prebound(Yearling, 2021)

BTSB #: 770606 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.6 MG Lexile: 700 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Family life - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Great-grandfathers - Fiction Motion pictures - Production and direction - Fiction Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction

Summary: During the summer before seventh grade, Kaia, who enjoys living in Southern California, visiting the beach with her family, and creating movie make-up effects, makes a film with her friends to win a contest and hopefully prevent her beloved great-grandfather from moving back to the Philippines.

Freddie vs. the family curse by Badua, Tracy 

BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2022)

BTSB #: 078866 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.3 MG

Genres: Fantasy Fiction Family Life Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Filipino Americans - Fiction Amulets - Fiction Blessing and cursing - Fiction Demonology - Fiction

Summary: A young Filipino-American Freddie and his cousin Sharkey must team up with Freddie's ancestor to break the curse that's haunted their family for generations. . . or Freddie will be trapped in an amulet forever.

House that Lou built by Respicio, Mae 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2018)

BTSB #: 770616 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.8 3-5 Lexile: 660 F&P: V

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Bildungsromans Home - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Building - Fiction Moving - Fiction California - Fiction

Summary: Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.

How to win a slime war by Respicio, Mae 

BTSB Prebound(Wendy Lamb Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 770618 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 660 F&P: V

Genres: Family Life Sports Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Middle schools - Fiction School stories Handicraft - Fiction Soccer - Fiction Stores - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Moving - Fiction

Summary: After moving to Sacramento to take over his grandparent's Filipino market, sixth-grader Alex seeks popularity by selling homemade slime at school, while his father insists he join a soccer team.