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Legend of Auntie Po, The

Shing Yin Khor

Illustrator: Shing Yin Khor

Ages: 12+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Kokila/Penguin Random House

ISBN: 978-0-525-55488-2

Keywords: Asian, Asian-American, Chinese Exclusion Act (1883), racism

Mei, 13, narrates life in an 1885 logging camp using Paul Bunyan stories with Chinese matriarch Auntie Po as protagonist. Bold digital pencil and watercolor illustrations.