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Abelove, Joan. Go and Come Back
Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in an Amazonian village in the Andes, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study their way of life.

Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
In twenty-two loosely related stories, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.

Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.

Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents
The four Garcia girls escape the Dominican Republic and a life of privilege in the 1960s to come to the United States and difficult adjustment.

Brainard, Cecilia, ed. Growing up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults

Budhos, Marina Tamar. Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers

Cameron, Ann. Colibri
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.

Carlson, Lori M., ed. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

Coman, Carolyn. Many Stones
Berry Morgan's divorced father returns to tell her that her sister has been murdered in South Africa.

Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Call Me Maria
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.

Crew, Linda. Children of the River
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.

Danticat, Edwidge. Behind the Mountains
Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Dhami, Narinder. Bindi Babes
Three Indian-British sisters team up to marry off their traditional, nosy aunt and get her out of the house.

Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinner
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Jimenez, Francisco. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given.

Kass, Pnina. Real Time
Sixteen-year-old Tomas Wanninger persuades his mother to let him leave Germany to volunteer at a kibbutz in Israel, where he experiences a violent political attack and finds answers about his own past.

Kessler, Cristina No Condition is Permanent
When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot be crossed.

Marston, Elsa. Figs and Fate: Stories About Growing Up in the Arab World Today
A collection of five stories portraying Arab life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and Iraq today.

Mazer, Anne. ed. A Walk In My World: International Short Stories About Youth

Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's Daughter
After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

Mosher, Richard. Zazoo
Amid old secrets revealed and rifts healed, a thirteen-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging "Grand-Pierre" learns about life, death, and love.

Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi
When fourteen-year-old Liyanna, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.

Nye, Naomi Shihab. The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East and North Africa
A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from North African and Middle Eastern countries.

Perkins, Mitali. Monsoon Summer
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.

Placide, Jaira. Fresh Girl
After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents and try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Shea, Pegi Deitz. Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.

Son, John. Finding My Hat
Jin-Han describes his life growing up with his mother and father, immigrants from Korea, and his little sister as they move to different cities with his parents' business.Soto, Gary. Baseball in April and Other Stories

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
In a year that brings a destructive sandstorm, a feud with a rich landowner, and other disasters, Shabanu, the 11-year-old daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of Pakistan, becomes a victim of her people's views of sex role and marriage.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the Persimmon Tree
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal and Nusrat are told in alternating chapters. Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan flees Afghanistan for Pakistan. Nusrat, an American mathematics teacher in Peshawar Pakistan awaits her husband's return from Afghanistan where he has gone to work in a clinic. Najmal comes to Nusrat’s school for refugees, the Persimmon Tree School and they help each other deal with their losses.

Stratton, Alan. Chanda's Secrets
Chanda struggles with the deaths of those around her and the shame of being molested as she continues her education and cares for her siblings and friend Esther, amidst the proverty and AIDs epidemic that plague her African homeland.

Temple, Frances. The Beduin's Gazelle
In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.

Thurlo, Aimee & David. Spirit Line
Required by her Navajo people to take part in a womanhood ceremony, Crystal is disheartened when the rug she has been weaving for the event is stolen and believes that someone in her tribe who disagrees with her beliefs is to blame.

Krishnaswami, Uma . Naming Maya
When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents' divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.

Wheland, Gloria. Homeless Bird
Like a homeless bird, 13 year-old Kali’s family promise her in marriage so that they won’t have to feed her. The husband her parents have chosen for her is sickly and dies shortly after the marriage. Kali cannot return to her family, as it would disgrace them. But she becomes even angrier when she discovers that her in-laws are stealing from her widow’s pension.

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann. Name Me Nobody
A Hawaiian ninth-grade girl who's been abandoned by her mother is desperate to hold onto her best friend, who she suspects of being a lesbian.

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