May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Celebrate in your class or library with these great graphic novels by AAPI creators!

CITY OF SECRETS and CITY OF ILLUSIONS by Victoria Ying.

On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to ­ and out what’s really going on in this mysterious city of secrets . . . or else!

SEA SIRENS and SKY ISLAND by Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee

A middle-grade graphic novel about a spunky Vietnamese American surfer girl and her cantankerous talking cat who plunge into a fantasy world of oceanic marvels . . . and mayhem!

MELLYBEAN AND THE GIANT MONSTER and MELLYBEAN AND THE WICKED WIZARD by Mike White

The Secret Life of Pets meets The Wizard of Oz in this debut graphic novel about a spunky pup who gets trapped in a world filled with magic, adventure, and one giant, grumpy monster.

THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO by Shing Yin Khor

Part historical fiction, part magical realism, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works in a Sierra Nevada logging camp in 1885.