Jean Davies Okimoto: 6 books

Rodney Suyama has two impossible dreams... to be a rap star and to go out with gorgeous Ivy Ramos. Set in the nineties at the dawn of rap, a witty and determined young man gets in touch with his past while taking control of his future in this romantic, poignant and hilarious novel by Jean Davies...

Newly arrived from Kazakhstan, Maya Alazova resents her little brother and the way her mother babies him. When the school moves her from the English Language Learner program to mainstream classes,the world of this pretty seventh grader turns upside down. Maya meets a boy who opens the floodgates to...

Grade 7-10-- Molly, 17, is an Asian-American who was adopted as an infant by Caucasian parents. Having lived unquestioningly with her curiosity about her birth parents, she decides to try and locate them. At first her adoptive parents are hurt and angry, but they eventually decide to support her and...

E Fiction Winner in 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards After the death of her mother, sixty-four year old Anne Koroda Duppstaad confronts the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist, to become an artist in her own right.

No duh! Not only are Jason's parents divorced--his mother acts like he has the plague and his father thinks shouting is the ultimate motivational tool--but his best friend has moved to California. It gets worse: his father decides to remarry and it turns out his stepbrother is Mr. High School All-American....

Meeting girls and going to school and hanging out with friends shouldn't be that tough. But it is if you're fifteen and you're biracial and your name is Moonbeam and you live on a commune with your mother and a bunch of granola-munching, tie-dyed, tofu-eating, sandal-wearing hippies! All Moonbeam...