multicultural literature

South Africa	Song of Be	Beake, Lesley	Love, courage, and dignity are universal themes that permeate this South African novel. Be, a young Bushman in Namibia, is sorting out her own coming-of-age issues against the backdrop of a country undergoing political reform.(Kaywell)	94 pp.
Caribbean	For the Life of Laetitia	Hodge, Merle	Laetitia faces the pressure of being the first member of her Caribbean family to make it to high school. (Kaywell)	213 pp.
Caribbean	Cay, The	Taylor, Theodore	A prejudiced, blind, 11-year-old white boy gets stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with a black man. Eventually, Timothy, an old sailor, becomes the key to Phillip's survival. (Kaywell)	160 pp.
China	Homesick: My Own Story	Fritz, Jean	Although the author was born and raised in China, she has always felt American. Her parents have frequently told her about their lives in the United States, and the letters from relatives in Pennsylvania have made her homesick … (Kaywell)	163 pp.
China	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	Lord, Bette Bao	Shirley Temple Wong, better known as Bandit, moves from China in 1947 to live with her parents in Brooklyn, New York. She knows very little English and has a difficult time making friends in her new school. (Kaywell)	169 pp.
China	It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota	Telamaque, Eleanor Wong	Chig Wing's parents own the only Chinese restaurant in town. It is there that Wing waits on tables, takes in cash, and dreams of being able to attend the university. (Kaywell)	118 pp.
China	Dragonwings	Yep, Laurence	Moon Shadow, a Chinese boy, goes to San Francisco to help his father, Windrider, makes a fabulous dream into a reality. Yep has loosely structured this story around the actual events of a young Chinese man who built a biplane in the 1900's.	248 pp.
China	Sea Glass	Yep, Laurence	After moving to San Francisco, Craig Chin learns that he is not accepted by his Anglo classmates. (Kaywell)	215 pp.
China	Child of the Owl	Yep, Laurence	When Casey's American father has to be hospitalized, Casey is sent to live with her maternal Chinese grandmother in San Francisco. Casey learns about the Chinese side of herself through her experiences in Chinatown. (Kaywell)	217 pp.
China	Star Fisher, The	Yep, Laurence	Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee is caught in the middle of two battles. First, she is always in conflict between her family's traditional Chinese ways and the American way of doing things. (Kaywell)	150 pp.
Greece	Love Is Not Enough	Levy, Marilyn	Delphi Decopolis is a beautiful, happy, 17-year-old girl who owes her copper-colored hair, tawny complexion, and green eyes to her mixed parentage; her mother is African-American and her father is Greek-American. (Kaywell)	151 pp.
Haiti	Happy Sound, The	Graham, Ruth Morris	Dorlea is a young girl growing up on a banana plantation in the Haitian hills. Oblivious to all the chaos that exists in her country, hers is a pleasant but sheltered life. (Kaywell)	132 pp.
Haiti	Broken Bridge, The	Pullman, Philip	Sixteen-year-old Ginny is a black girl living in a white family. Until now, living with her father has bee all right. Now, Ginny is slowly learning about her family's real past. (Kaywell)	218 pp.
South Africa	The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa	Gordon, Sheila	Rebecca lives in constant fear and has nightmares about the white people coming to bulldoze her village for development purposes. (Kaywell)	152 pp
India	Daughters of the House	Aikath-Gyaltsen, Indrani	Chchanda and her little sister live with their Aunt Madhulika. Everything is just fine until their aunt marries a man from across the river and brings him home to live with them. (Kaywell)	199 pp.
India	Jasmine	Mukherjee, Bhariti	Jasmine doesn't want her arranged marriage; she wants to become a doctor. She eventually emigrates illegally to America only to face more difficulty in rural Iowa as Jane Ripplemeyer. (Kaywell)	214 pp.
India	Sumitra's Story	Smith, Rukshana	Sumitra's family moves to Uganda when she is ten years old. When Idi Amin begins to threaten the Indians in Uganda, her family leaves their successful business and flees to England. (Kaywell)	168 pp.
South Africa	Chain of Fire	Naidoo, Beverley	Through the experiences of 15-year-old Naledi, this YA novel by South African exile Naidoo dramatizes the apartheid atrocity that made blacks foreigners in their own country: the forced removal of more than three million blacks…(Rochman)	256 pp.
Italy	Maria's Italian Springtime	Avery, Gillian	Set in the turn of the century, this is the story of 12-year-old Maria and what she experiences when she leaves England to reside in Italy with her only living relative-a distant cousin. (Kaywell)	265 pp.
Japan	Farewell to Manzanar	Houston, Jeanne & Houston, James	This is the true story of Jeannie, the youngest daughter of the Wakatsuki family, and what she and her family experienced for four years in the Manzanar Internet Camp durning World War II. (Kaywell)	160 pp.
Japan	Kim/Kimi	Irwin, Hadley	When 16-year-old Kim Andrews looks in the mirror, Kimi Yogushi looks back. Even though Kim feels American, she looks Japanese. Kim feels unsure of her heritage. Kim ends up at a Japanese-American concentration camp when looking for information.	200 pp.
Japan	Breakaway Run	Klass, David	During Tony's 16th year, he gets the opportunity of a lifetime. He gets to spend five months in the home of a Japanese family as an exchange student. (Kaywell)	192 pp.
Japan	War Between the Classes, The	Midlowitz, Gloria D.	Amy Sumoto, the daughter of traditional Japanese parents, and Adam Tarcher, the son of a snobby upper-class mother, are determined to have a relationship with one another. (Kaywell)	158 pp.
Japan	Shizuko's Daughter	Mori, Kyoko	Yuki Okuda is only ten years old when her mother, Shizuko, commits suicide. Her father hastily remarries, which places an additional burden on Yuki's development. (Kaywell)	208 pp.
Japan	Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights	Myers, Walter Dean	Mop, a teenage girl who can play baseball as well as any of the guys, is the protagonist who shares her insights during the play-offs. (Kaywell)	150 pp.
Japan	Pacific Crossing	Soto, Gary	Lincoln Mendoza is selected to represent his high school in an exchange program where he will get to go to Japan for the summer. There, he stays with Mr. And Mrs. Ono and their son, Mitsuo, who teach him about Japanese culture&family values. (Kaywell)	126 pp.
South Africa	Winnie Mandela: Life of Struggle	Haskins, Jim	The author presents the life of the wife of Nelson Mandela and outlines the couple's joint suffering. (Kaywell)	173 pp.
Korea	Year of Impossible Goodbyes	Choi, Sook Nyui	Based on the author's life, this story recounts what life was like during the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. (Kaywell)	169 pp.
Korea	Finding My Voice	Lee, Marie G.	Ellen, a Korean-American, struggles to find her identity as the only non-white teenager in a small town in Minnesota. (Kaywell)	165 pp.
Mexico	Bless Me, Ultima	Anaya, Rudolfo	Antonio Marez is growing up in New Mexico during the Forties. He is torn between the traditions of his family and the American ways of his classmates in school. Ultima serves as his curandera, or mentor, in this coming-of-age story. (Kaywell)	262 pp.
Mexico	House on Mango Street, The	Cisneros, Sandra	In a beautiful and intense series of vignettes, Esperanza shares her coming-of-age trials and tribulationhs as a Mexican-American growing up in Chicago. (Kaywell)	102 pp.
Mexico	Journey of the Sparrows	Buss, Fran Leeper & Cubias, Daisy	Maria is an extraordinary teenager who barely manages to escape from the political unrest occurring in El Salvador. Her mother gets Maria to flee to Mexico with her pregnant sister and her frail brother. (Kaywell)	155 pp.
Mexico	Coyotes	Conover, Ted	This is a nonfiction account of the author's travels with Mexican illegal aliens who immigrate into the United States. These people endure many hardships and work at the most menial of jobs for low pay in the hopes of finding better lives. (Kaywell)	264 pp.
Mexico	Kathleen, Please Come Home	O'Dell, Scott	Kathleen's life is pretty regular until she befriends Sybil, a rebellious teenager, and falls in love with Ramon, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. (Kaywell)	196 pp.
Mexico	Crossing, The	Paulsen, Gary	Manny Bustos, a homeless Mexican teenager, fights for his daily existence on the streets of Juarez, Mexico. He sees the possibility for a better life in America but first has to pass across the border, which is guarded by Sergeant Locke. (Kaywell)	128 pp.
Mexico	Famous All Over Town	Santiago, Danny	Fourteen-year-old Rudy is part of the Shamrock gang and goes by the name of Chato. Being part of a gang is "machismo," and being a Shamrock makes Rudy feel like a kingpin. (Kaywell)	285 pp.
Mexico	Living Up the Street	Soto, Gary	The author recounts what it was like for him growing up in the barrios of Fresno, California. Soto experienced many hardships on his way to becoming a successful author and poet, and he shares how he overcame those obstacles. (Kaywell)	159 pp.
Native American	Education of Little Tree, The	Carter, Forrest	The author recounts what it was like growing up in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression. He shares the prejudice displayed to the Cherokee Indians and the pride they managed to maintain in spite of their treatment. (Kaywell)	216 pp.
Native Americans	Yellow Raft in Blue Water, The	Dorris, Michael	Three women on a Montana reservation tell their stories. (Kaywell)	384 pp.
Native American	Owl's Song, The	Hale, Janet Campbell	Fourteen-year-old Billy White Hawk lives alone with his alcoholic father on an Indian reservation. After his best friend commits suicide, Billy leaves the reservation in search of a better life. (Kaywell)	144 pp.
South Africa	Go Well, Stay Well	Jones, Toeckey	Becky is a Aulu from Soweto, South Africa, and Candy is a white girl from a privileged area of Johannesburg. The teenagers meet on a crowded street when Candy trips and sprains her ankle. They begin a friendship…(Kaywell)	201 pp.
Native American	Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans	Hirschfelder, Arlene B. & Singer, Beverly R.	The editors have compiled several short essays and poems written by young Native Americans. These 19th and 20th- century literary pieces are personal in nature, yet reflect concerns relative to most people today. (Kaywell)	115 pp.
Native American	Brave, The	Lipsyte, Robert	As a sequel to The Contender, this novel is about George Harrison Bayer, better known as Sonny Bear, and his pursuit of a better life away from his reservation home in upstate New York. Sonny Bear wants to make it as a heavyweight boxer…(Kaywell)	195 pp.
Native American	Sing Down the Moon	O'Dell, Scott	This novel is based on a historic event--the forced migration of the Navaho Indians from their original homeland in 1864. Fifteen-year-old Bright Morning tells the story from her Indian point of view. (Kaywell)	128 pp.
Native American	Night the White Deer Died, The	Paulsen, Scott	After her parents' divorce, Janet moves with her mother to Tres Pinos in New Mexico. There, the boys are intrigued by her appearance, but the girls are envious. Finding she doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, Janet chooses to be a loner. (Kaywell)	105 pp.
Native American	Woman of Her Tribe, A	Robinson, Margaret A.	Fifteen-year-old Annette has an Indian father and an English mother. (Kaywell)	148 pp.
Native American	Tisha	Sprecht, Robert	This is the story of 19-year-old Anne Hobbs and her struggle as a teacher in a tiny community in the Alaskan wilderness. (Kaywell)	352 pp.
Pakistan	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind	Staples, Suzanne Fisher	Shabanu is the 11-year-old daughter of a camel breeder who survivies in the harsh desert of Pakistan. In a very male-dominated society, she must contend with issues surrounding her sister's upcoming wedding and her own betrothal. (Kaywell)	240 pp.
Poland	Alicia: My Story	Appleman-Jurman	This autobiography is Alicia's account of Germany's invasion of Poland during World War II. As a young Jewish girl growing up in Buczacz, Poland, Alicia's life went from normal to horrific as she survived the deaths of her entire family. (Kaywell)	448 pp.
Poland	Cage, The	Sender, Ruth Minsky	Riva Minska recalls what it was like for her growing up in the Lodz ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust. After her mother is taken away to a concentration camp, Riva is left to care for her younger brothers. (Kaywell)	224 pp.
Puerto Rico	Gaucho	Gonzalez, Gloria	Gaucho lives with his mother in El Barrio in New York City. It is Gaucho's hope and dream to be able to someday return to Puerto Rico with his mother. (Kaywell)	144 pp.
Puerto Rico	Nilda	Mohr, Nicholasa	This story, set in the early Forties, is about Nilda Ramirez's growing up in El Barrio in New York City. (Kaywell)	292 pp.
Russia	Sworn Enemies	Matas, Carol	Aaron is revered in his Russian community for his academic ability, but Zev is jealous of Aaron's success. The two Russian Jews have numerous confrontations until both are forced to work together if they want to escape forced military service. (Kaywell)	132 pp.
Russia	Face to Face: A Collection of Stories by Celebrated Soviet and American Writers	Pettepiece, Thomas (ed.)	This American and Soviet short story collection is designed to remind teenagers of the common humanity our two countries share. (Kaywell)	230 pp.
South Africa	Chain of Fire	Naidoo, Beverly	Fifteen-year-old Niledi and her friend Taolo are the leaders of a student resistance group against the evils of apartheid. The young people face unbelievable oppression and hardships … (Kaywell)	245 pp.
Russia	We Were Not Like Other People	Sevela, Ephraim	A Russian Jewish teenager is separated from his parents at the onset of World War II. His life is a test of survival as he wanders in search of his parents for six years. (Kaywell)	222 pp.
Thailand	Rice Without Rain	Ho, Mingfong	This novel -- which is dedicated to those killed at Thammasart University on October 6, 1976 -- addresses the problems of rural Thailand in conflict with its military dictatorship. (Kaywell)	236 pp.
Vietnam	Voyage of the Lucky Dragon, The	Bennett, Jack	After a Vietnamese family endures much hardship in a Communist re-education camp, they seize an opportunity to escape by embarking on a fishing boat that will take them away from their oppressed country. (Kaywell)	149 pp.
Vietnam	Our Love	Brown, Fern	During Suzy Belkowski's senior year at East High, after racial tensions were noted, Suzy is assigned to write a story about how the Vietnamese feel about being students at her school. (Kaywell)	119 pp.
Vietnam	Shadow of the Dragon	Garland, Sherry	Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo lives with his extended family in the United States. Life changes dramatically when Sang Le, a cousing, comes to America to live with them. (Kaywell)	314 pp.
Vietnam	Song of the Buffalo Boy	Garland, Sherry	Seventeen-year-old Loi loves Khai, the herder of the water buffalo, and he loves her. Unfortunately, the ugly Officer Hiep wants to marry Loi and offers her Vietnamese mother the monetary dowry to make Loi his wife. (Kaywell)	249 pp.
Vietnam	Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs	Gilson, Jamie	Harvey Trumble's family is hosting a Vietnamese family, and Harvey tries to help 12-year-old Tuan adjust to the American way of doing things. (Kaywell)	159 pp.
Vietnam	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places	Hayslip, Le Ly	The author shares her life's story about growing up as a young Vietnamese woman during the Viet Nam War. Le Ly was 12 years old when the war started. By the time she was 16 years old, Le Ly had first-hand experience of the tragedy of war. (Kaywell)	362 pp.
Vietnam	Jason's Women	O' Kimoto, Jean Davies	Jason, an awkward and shy 16-year-old, decides he wants a job. He answers an ad in the newspaper and finds himself working for an eccentric 80-year-old woman named Bertha Jane Filmore. (Kaywell)	224 pp.
Vietnam	Park's Quest	Paterson, Katherine	The only thing Park knows about his father is that he died in the Viet Nam War. Park's mother offers little information because she doesn't want him to know that she and his father were divorced prior to his father's death. (Kaywell)	148 pp.
Vietnam	My Name Is San Ho	Petit, Jayne	Growning up in Viet Nam during the Viet Nam War, San Ho has witnessed the destruction of his village, the murder of his honored teacher, and the loss of his father. (Kaywell)	149 pp.
Vietnam	Vietnamese in America, The	Rutledge, Paul	This nonfiction book depicts the struggles the Vietnamese have faced as a "boat people" trying to adapt to the American way of life. (Kaywell)	70 pp.
Vietnam	New Kid on the Block	Sommer, Karen	Satch, Spinner, Pete, and A.J. have been the "Fearless Foursome" of the 6th grade for quite some time. Things change when a new kid comes to their school from Viet Nam. (Kaywell)	127 pp.
South Africa	Beyond Safe Boundaries	Sacks, Margaret	Elizabeth, a young girl, is coming of age in South Africa during the Sixties. Her sister, Evie, joins an underground resistance group to oppose the racial policies that are enforced by the South African government. (Kaywell)	156 pp.
Vietnam	Girl in the White Ship, The	Townsend, Peter	Townsend interviewed family members, friends, and officials in writing a historically accurate account of one family's struggle to escape from Communist rule. (Kaywell)	171 pp.
Vietnam	Boat to Nowhere, A	Wartski, Maureen Crane	Kien, an orphan boy, discovers the meaning of family when he helps two Vietnamese children and their sickly grandfather, Thay Van Chi, escape from the Vietcong. (Kaywell)	160 pp.
Vietnam	Long Way from Home, A	Wartski, Maureen Crane	This realistic story is Wartski's sequel to A Boat to Nowhere and recounts Kien's struggles adjusting to American life. (Kaywell)	144 pp.
South Africa	Waiting For the Rain	Gordon, Sheila	Tengo, a black, and Frikkie, an Afrikaner, grow up together as childhood friends on a farm in South Africa. As tensions over apartheid grow, the boys find their friendship in jeopardy amidst the ongoing tragedy of South Africa. (Kaywell)	214 pp.
Poland	Escape From Warsaw	Serrailler, Ian	…an immensely satisfying, romantic account of ordinary young civilians caught up in the war as refugees, forced to fend for themselves without adults. (Rochman)	224 pp.
Russia	Along the Tracks	Bergman, Tamar	…tells of a small Jewish boy on the run in Russia during World War II. (Rochman)	n/a
Jamaica	Ajeemah and His Son	Berry, James	Ajeemah and his son Atu are kidnapped and sold in West Africa, never to see home or family again. After a bitter journey to Jamaica, they are separated forever, sold off to plantations 20 miles apart. (Kaywell)	83 pp.
Ireland	Wildflower Girl	Conlon-McKenna, Marita	The Great Famine in Ireland drives Peggy O'Driscoll to leave for America…Peggy's story started in Under The Hawthorn Tree when her parents died, and she walked with her older brother and sisters across the country in search of food and a home. (Rochman)	n/a
Russia	Letter From Rifka	Hesse, Karen	…about a Jewish immigrant girl escaping with her family from the Russian pogroms and coming through Ellis Island to America. (Rochman)	n/a
Cuba	Kiki: A Cuban Boy's Adventures in America	Perera, Hilda	…based on the experience of unaccompanied refugee children who came to the U.S. from Cuba in the 1960s …(Rochman)	n/a
Vietnam	Into a Strange Land	Ashabranner, Brent and Melissa	The account of the boat people from Asia and how they came to America after the Vietnam War is powerfully presented…The harrowing personal story that opens the book makes you wonder if the escape is into safety or into Hell. (Rochman)	120 pp.
Mexico	Journey of the Sparrows	Buss, Fran Leeper	Nailed into a crate in the back of a truck, 15-year-old Maria and her sister and little brother endure the cruel journey across the border from Mewxico and then north to Chicago. (Rochman)	n/a
Germany	Don't Say a Word	Gehrts, Barbara	…translated from the German, is about an anti-Nazi family in a Berlin suburb. It's based on the writer's own experience…(Rochman)	310pp
Greece	Lily and the Lost Boy	Fox, Paula	Lily and her American family are living on a Greek island for several months. They are visitors but not tourists. They live among their Greek neighbors and struggle to learn Greek; by the time they leave, everyone in the village knows them. (Rochman)	n/a
Australia	Josh	Southall, Ivan	Fourteen-year-old Josh leaves the city of Melbourne to stay with his aunt in the country. Not only does he have difficulty adjusting to his aunt's strict ways, but he finds it difficult fitting in with the country lifestyle. (Kaywell)	179 pp.
Tahiti	Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook, The	Blumberg, Rhoda	…the English explorer, on one of his trips to the Pacific in the eighteenth century, stops on a Tahitian island. He's shocked by the Tahitian religious practice of human sacrifice…(Rochman)	n/a
Vietnam	Fallen Angels	Myers, Walter Dean	Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has left the violent streets of Harlem for Vietnam, and at first he mouths cliches about fighting to keep the streets of America free. This story is about Richie and the other young men on his squad…(Rochman)	309 pp.
Germany	All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich Maria	…about German teenage soldiers during World War I, is very like Fallen Angels in its story about high school kids who find themselves fighting in a war they know nothing about against an enemy just like them. (Rochman)	295pp.
Russia	Forever Nineteen	Baklanov, Grigory	Translated from the Russian, the novel is based on Baklanov's own experience as a teenager fighting the Germans somewhere in the Ukraine during World War II. (Rochman)	n/a
Germany	Bad Times, Good Friends	Vogel, Ilse-Margaret	This memoir is about the last years of the war (WWII), when Vogel, about 30 years old, is living in Berlin as an artist. (Rochman)	n/a
South Africa	Waiting for the Rain	Gordon, Sheila	…about an interracial friendship that is broken by apartheid. (Rochman)	214 pp
Syria	Hand Full of Stars, A	Schami, Rafik	In contemporary Damascus, an Arab teenager writes in his journal about himself, his family, his friends, and his love, while in the background, government violence mounts, coup follows coup, and he is drawn into secret and dangerous resistance. (Rochman)	n/a
China	Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear	Namioka, Lensey	Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, nine-year-old Yingtao fails his musical family because he has a terrible ear -- he's tone deaf. (Rochman)	134pp.
Mexico	Stories from the Days of Christopher Columbus	Young, Richard Alan and Judy Dockery	A collection of stories from the indiginous people of Mexico. (Atkins)	n/a
Haiti	Taste of Salt	Temple, Frances	…told in the voices of two Haitian teenagers who find political commitment and love. Woven into the story are real events of the late 1980s, and the priest-leader, Aristide, appears as a quiet, charismatic figure who calls for democratic change. (Rochman	n/a
Wales	Owl Service, The	Garner, Alan	In another story of love and revenge, The Owl Service, Alan Garner draws on Celtic myth for a terrifying contemporary adventure. (Rochman)	n/a
New Zealand	Catalogue of the Universe, The	Mahy, Margaret	Angela has grown up beautiful and confident with her strong, loving unmarried mother, but she yearns for the father she has never known. (Rochman)	n/a
Japan	Invisible Thread, The	Uchida, Yoshiko	In this memoir, the author tells how the U.S. government broke up her home and herded her Japanese American family into a concentration camp during World War II. (Rochman)	n/a
Holland	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Frank, Anne	Like any teenager she (Anne) fights with her mother, resents her sister, finds romance with an interesting boy. But the flames of the Nazi dragon lay waste the world, and we know that this girl…will disappear in the death camps…(Rochman)	312pp
Cambodia	More than Meets the Eye	Betancourt, Jeanne	Liz Gaynor volunteers to help Dary Sing, a new student who is a recent immigrant from Cambodia who can barely speak English. Additionally, Liz is falling for her science lab partner, Ben Lee, who is Chinese. (Kaywell)	176 pp.
Holland	Hide and Seek	Vos, Ida	…an autobiographical story, translated in simple direct style from the Dutch, has the same sense of nightmare invading an ordinary middle-class home. It's about a Jewish child in Holland under Nazi occupation…(Rochman)	n/a
Germany	When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit	Kerr, Judith	Based on the author's own experiences as a child, this story tells how a German Jewish girl and her family left their home in Berlin just before Hitler came to power in 1933. (Rochman)	n/a
Denmark	Number the Stars	Lowry, Lois	This novel of two Danish girls, one Jewish, the other not, highlights the way Danes protected their Jewish citizens from the invading Nazis. (Rochman)	137pp.
South Africa	Beyond Safe Boundaries	Sacks, Margaret	Growing up in a Jewish liberal home in South Africa, teenage Elizabeth disapproves of apartheid, but she thinks it doesn't have much to do with her--until prison and murder invade the intimacy of her family. (Rochman)	n/a
South Africa	Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa	Rochman, Hazel Ed.	This YA anthology, which brings together 10 stories and autobiographical accounts by southern African writers…vividly evokes what it means to come of age under apartheid. (Rochman)	n/a
Multiethnic	New Kids on the Block: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens	Bode, Janet	Representing the more recent wave of immigrants from such countries as El Salvador and Cuba, as well as from several Asian nations, 11 teenagers describe what it's like to begin anew in America. (Rochman)	n/a
Cambodia	Cambodian Folk Stories from the Gatiloke	Carrison, Muriel Paskin	The folk stories in this collection, many of them brought to the U.S. by recent refugees, are from an ancient literary tradition told by Cambodian Buddhist monks.(Rochman)	n/a
Japan	Farewell to Manzanar	Wakatsuki, Jeanne and Houston, James D.	In a spare, powerful memoir, a Japanese American woman remembers the three years she spent as a small child with her family in the internment camp at Manzanar, and she talks about growing up after the war. (Rochman)	n/a
Laos	Dark Sky, Dark Land: Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100	Moore, David L.	Moore, a high school teacher and Boy Scout leader, befriended these (Hmong refugees) boys, gained their confidence, and formed Boy Scout Troop 100 to help them keep their sense of identity while adapting to America. (Rochman)	n/a
Multiethnic	Where Angels Glide at Dawn: New Stories from Latin America	Carlson, Lori M. and Ventura, Cynthis L.	With an introduction by Isabel Allende, these 10 stories for young people by modern Latin American writers from Mexico, El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Peru, and Puerto Rico range from comedy and fantasy to stories of political repression. (Rochman)	n/a
Multiethnic	African Short Stories	Achebe, Chinua Ed.	Twenty stories by contemporary writers across the African continent, including Sembene Ousmane (Senegal), Eskia Mphalele (South Africa), Bessie Head (Botswana), and Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya). (Rochman)	n/a
China	Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom	Paterson, Katherine	A 15-year-old peasant boy, Wang Le, is caught up in the Taiping Rebellion in China in the 1850s, when hundreds of thousands of the poorest people, fiercely patriotic and imbued with their own version of Christianity, are fighting to free China…(Rochman)	n/a
Cambodia	To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family	Criddle, Joan D. and Mam, Teeda Butt	This is the nonfiction account of Teeda Butt, a 15-year-old Cambodian schoolgirl, who is forced to leave her country because of the Khmer Rouge. (Kaywell)	304 pp.
New Zealand	Underrunners	Mahy, Margaret	In a thrilling story of friendship and terror, Mahy makes daily life as weird and scary as science fiction. The setting is the New Zealand peninsula, shere two friends are kidnapped at gunpoint by a menacing stalker, elegant, crazy, and violent.(Rochman)	n/a
Australia	Coming Back to Show You I Could Fly	Klein, Robin	Two desperate misfits become friends: timid, lonely Seymour, 11, oppressed by adults and street bullies, and flamboyant Angie, 20, whose cheery vulgarity masks a helpless grief. (Rochman)	n/a
Australia	Playing Beatie Bow	Park, Ruth	Abigail is furious with her divorced parents. She lives in a beautiful high-rise building in Sydney, Australia, designed by her architect father. Suddenly, Abby finds herself trapped in her Sydney neighborhood 100 years before. (Rochman)	n/a
Australia	Agnes the Sheep	William, Taylor	An old woman dies, leaving Agnes--her ornery, constipated sheep--to Belinda and Joe, who have a hard time keeping the animal away from the various friends and relations who want to make it into sausages and blankets. A wry, off-the-wall original(Rochman)	n/a
Australia	Balyet	Wrightson, Patricia	Based on an aboriginal Australian legend, this tells of a contemporary teenager who falls under the spell of Balyet, a girl of the hills who was banished a thousand years ago. (Rochman)	179pp.
Jamaica	When I Dance	Berry, James	This collection featuring the vernacular of two diverse places includes poems set in inner-city Britain, poems set in Jamaica, and poems that establish the close relationship between the two locations. (Rochman0	120pp
Bolivia	Fear the Condor	Blair, David Nelson	Set in Bolivia in the 1930s, this novel concerns an Aymaran Indian girl, Bartolina, who is part of a community of tenant laborers forced to work for the ruling Hispanic patron. (Rochman)	n/a
Caribbean	For the Life of Laetitia	Hodge, Merle	Rooted in Caribbean culture and language in all their rich diversity, this novel celebrates place and community even as it confronts divisions of race, class, and gender. (Rochman)	n/a
Haiti	Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, The	Wolkstein, Diane	With zest and humor, Wolkstein tells 27 tales she collected while traveling through Haiti. She includes lively notes about each story, how she heard it, and its relation to European and African counterparts. (Rochman)	n/a
Trinidad	Wave in Her Pocket, A: Stories from Trinidad	Joseph, Lynn	Full of magic and suspense, six tales combine Trinidad's traditional folklore with a young person's view of island life. (Rochman)	51 pp
Puerto Rico	Going Home	Mohr, Nicholasa	Twelve-year-old New Yorker Felita, on her first visit to her beloved Abuelita's town in the Puerto Rican mountains, struggles with being an outsider.(Rochman)	n/a
Hungary	In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh	Atkinson, Linda	From her Hungarian childhood and life in Palestine to her return to her homeland and her death at the hands of Nazis, this biography of the brave young resistance fighter draws on her personal diary..(Rochman)	n/a
Poland	Memories of My Life in a Polish Village	Fluek, Toby	Illustrating her text with her own luminous paintings and drawings, Fluek moves with powerful simplicity through the details of her Jewish prewar life, her stuggle to survive Nazi occupation, and her eventual emigration. (Rochman)	n/a
Cambodia	Children of the River	Crew, Linda	Sundara, a teenage Cambodian-American, flees with her aunt's family from the Khmer Rouge terror in the mid-Seventies to a small Oregon town, only to find racial prejudice within the Cambodian community there. (Kaywell)	213 pp.
Siberia	Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia	Hautzig, Esther	Written with powerful simplicity, this personal memoir chronicles Hautzig's years from 10 to 14 as a Polish deportee with her mother and grandmother in a remote, impoverished Siberian village during World War II. (Rochman)	239 pp.
Russia	Wild Children, The	Homan, Felice	The bezprizoni were packs of homeless young people who roamed Russia in the early 1920s in the aftermath of world war, revolution, civil war, and famine. Homan focuses on Alex, who becomes part of a gang that helps him to survive. (Rochman)	n/a
Wales	Henry	Bawden, Nina	During World War II, a London family has escaped the Blitz to live on a farm in Wales for three years. They love the farm, though they miss their father, who is on dangerous patrol duty at sea.(Rochman)	n/a
Ireland	Under the Hawthorn Tree	Conlon-McKenna, Marita	Winner of the International Reading Association Children's book award, this novel tells the story of Peggy O'Driscoll, whose parents die during the Great Famine in Ireland in the late 1840s. (Rochman)	n/a
Wales	How Green Was My Valley	Llewellyn, Richard		495 pp.
Arab	Arab Folktales	Bushnaq, Inea (Ed.)	Elegant, engaging prose, beautiful book design, and fastidious research of printed sources highlight this definitive collection for students of folklore, both teen and adult. (Rochman)	416pp.
Turkey	Against the Storm	Hicyilmaz, Gaye	In a story of contemporary Turkey, 12-year-old Mehmet's family moves from the village to the city in search of a better life, but they end up in a dusty shantytown where they slowly lose courage and hope. (Rochman)	n/a
Iraq	Kiss the Dust	Laird, Elizabeth	A fast-paced refugee adventure story about a Kurdish teenager, Tara Hawrami, and her family caught up in the Iran-Iraq war in 1984. (Rochman)	n/a
Ethiopia	Return, The	Levitin, Sonia	In this vivid and compelling novel, Desta, a Falasha (Ethiopian Jew), despised and ill-treated by the local people, undertakes an arduous journey with her family toward a new home in Israel. (Rochman)	181pp
Sweden	Changeling, The	Lagerlof, Sonia	The cruel stepmother, the lost child, the noble changeling: all these folktale motifs are reversed in this harsh and beautiful tale…(Rochman)	n/a
Jamaica	Thief in the Village, A	Berry, James	This collection of nine short stories captures the wants, dreams, and desires of Jamaican children. (Kaywell)	148 pp.
Jamaica	Abeng	Cliff, Michelle	Twelve-year-old Clare Savage begins to consider what it means to be raised by multiracial parents in Jamaica. (Kaywell)	167 pp.