How to make friends with the sea by Guerrero, Tanya 

Paperback(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)

BTSB #: 406079 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 510

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Anxiety - Fiction Self-acceptance - Fiction Cleft lip - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: Moving to the Philippines with his zoologist mother, twelve-year-old Pablo struggles with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.

Patron saints of nothing by Ribay, Randy 

Paperback(Penguin Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 749472 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 840

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Homicide - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Family life - Philippines - Fiction Drug traffic - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

Patron saints of nothing by Ribay, Randy 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2019)

BTSB #: 749475 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.3 UG Lexile: 840

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Homicide - Fiction Cousins - Fiction Family life - Philippines - Fiction Drug traffic - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero learns his Filipino cousin and former best friend, Jun, was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, he flies to the Philippines to learn more.

Sari-Sari summers by Bontigao, Lynnor 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 133804 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-7   
F&P: M

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Grandmothers - Fiction Grandparent-grandchild relationship - Fiction Stores - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: Nora loves spending summers with Lola at her sari-sari store, a treasure trove filled with everything you could need. But when a heat wave strikes and no one comes to the store, Nora worries that she won't get to spend the rest of the summer with her lola-until she gets a sweet idea. After all, the mangoes on the tree outside are finally ripe, and with a bit of measuring, mixing, and a good deal of tasting, Nora and Lola have a refreshing way to bring people together-and to the sari-sari store.

We belong by Everman, Cookie Hiponia 

Paperback(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2022)

BTSB #: 318232 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 830

Genres: Family Life Folk Tales, Fables, Mythology

Subjects: Novels in verse Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Folklore - Philippines - Fiction Filipino Americans - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: Through a bedtime story to her daughters, a woman weaves together her immigration story and Filipino mythology.