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Further, stereotypic and culturally inauthentic portrayals were major problems in the past and they persist in the recent publications as well. Other trends include few authors of Asian Pacific American background, emergence of pan-Asian-Pacific-American books, the emergence of interracial family and transracial adoption stories, and so forth. The investigation of perspectives revealed that books with a social conscience are message-laden and the majority of them suffer from flawed characterization and mediocre writing. Most of the melting pot books are mediocre creations as well and contain stereotypical images. One third of the 270 books are culturally conscious books that have Asian Pacific American as main characters and detail the richness of growing up simultaneously Asian Pacific American and American. 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