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Sorted by Author / Title. |
F ALE |
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot. |
F ALL |
Allen, Crystal. How Lamar's bad prank won a Bubba-sized trophy. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, c2011.
When thirteen-year-old, bowling-obsessed Lamar Washington finds out that his idol is coming to town, he finds himself involved in some unsavory activities as he tries to change his image to impress people. |
F ALV |
Alvarez, Julia. Before we were free. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, c2002.
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. |
F ALV |
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia girls lost their accents. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.
The story of the Garcia families adjustment to life in the United States. |
F APP |
Applegate, Katherine. Home of the brave. 1st ed. New York : Feiwel And Friends, 2007.
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. |
F AUC |
Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of roses. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2002.
Sixteen-year-old Rose Nolan arrives on Ellis Island in 1911 in the hopes of starting a new life, but after most of her family is sent back to Ireland, she must find her own way in a new country and fend for herself and her younger sister. |
F LIT |
Baskin, Nora Raleigh. The truth about my Bat Mitzvah. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
After her beloved grandmother, Nana, dies, non-religious twelve-year-old Caroline becomes curious about her mother's Jewish ancestry. |
F Bea |
Beake, Lesley. Song of Be. 1st American ed. New York : Holt, c1993.
Be, a young Bushman woman searching in the desert for the peace she remembers from her childhood, realizes that she and her people must reconcile new personal and political realities with ancient traditions. |
F BRU |
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. The warriors. Plain City, OH : Darby Creek Pub., c2003.
An Iroquois boy known on the reservation for his talent at the sacred game of lacrosse moves to Washington, D.C., with his mother and grows frustrated with the misleading statements about Native Americans that his new lacrosse coach makes. |
E Bun |
Bunting, Eve, 1928-. How many days to America? : a Thanksgiving story. New York : Clarion Books, c1988.
Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving. |
F BUS PB |
Buss, Fran Leeper, 1942-. Journey of the sparrows. New York : Puffin, 2002.
Maria and her brother and sister, Salvadoran refugees, are smuggled into the United States in crates and try to eke out a living in Chicago with the help of a sympathetic family. |
F CAM |
Cameron, Ann, 1943-. Colibrí. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003.
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. |
F CAR |
Carter, Anne, 1953-. The shepherd's granddaughter. Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press ;, 2008.
Amani's lifelong dream to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather, Seedo, is devastated to discover the Israelis are going to build a settlement on the family homestead in Palestine, and while her uncle and brother prepare to take a militant stance, help comes from unexpected quarters. |
F CAR |
Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass basket. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Childrens Books, c2005.
In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them is falsely accused of stealing. |
F CHE |
Cheng, Andrea. Marika. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2002.
Although she has been raised Catholic, Marika learns how dangerous it is to be of Jewish heritage and living in Hungary during World War II. |
F CHO |
Choi, Sook Nyul. Echoes of the white giraffe. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. |
F CHO |
Chotjewitz, David. Daniel half human and the good Nazi. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters. |
F CIS |
Cisneros, Sandra. The house on Mango Street. New York : A.A. Knopf :, 1998.
A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. |
F CLA |
Clarke, Judith, 1943-. Kalpana's dream. 1st U.S. ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, [2005], c2004.
Neema's struggle to complete an essay on the topic "Who Am I" for her freshman English class is complicated by the arrival of Kampala, her Indian great-grandmother who has come to Australia chasing her dream of flying, and although they do not speak the same language, the two find common ground in skateboarder Gull Oliver. |
F CLI |
Clinton, Cathryn. A stone in my hand. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2002.
Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad. |
F COL PB |
Colfer, Eoin. Benny and Babe. Dublin, Ireland : O'Brien Press, 1999.
While visiting his grandfather out in the country over the summer holidays, a rambunctious Irish boy named Benny meets his match in tomboy Babe Meara. |
F COL |
Colfer, Eoin. Benny and Omar. Dublin, Ireland : O'Brien Press, [2002].
Benny hates his new life in Tunisia; none of the kids play his favorite sport, and he feels like he just doesn't fit in, until he is befriended by Omar, a wild boy living on his talent for buying, selling, and fixing things. |
F Col |
Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-. With every drop of blood. New York : Delacorte, 1994.
While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier. |
F CRA PB |
Craven, Margaret. I heard the owl call my name. New York : Dell, [1980], c1973.
Sent to live with an Indian tribe in British Columbia, a young minister learns not to fear his impending death. |
F CRE PB |
Crew, Linda. Children of the river. New York : Dell, c1989.
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 adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. |
F CUR |
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, c1995.
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. |
F Den |
Denenberg, Barry. So far from home : the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 1997.
During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had. |
F DIV PB |
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-. The conch bearer. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005, c2003.
Twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell that possesses mystical powers and sets out on a journey to return the shell to its rightful home many hundreds of miles away. |
F DRA |
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills). Fire from the rock. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2007.
Sylvia Patterson's life suddenly changes with the integration of Little Rock's Central High in 1957 when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. |
SC FIR |
First crossing : stories about teen immigrants. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2004.
First crossing / Pam Muñoz Ryan -- Second culture kids / Dian Curtis Regan -- My favorite chaperone / Jean Davies Okimoto -- They don't mean it! / Lensey Namioka -- Pulling up stakes / David Lubar -- Lines of scrimmage / Elsa Marston -- The Swede / Alden R. Carter -- The rose of sharon / Marie G. Lee -- Make Maddie mad / Rita Williams-Garcia -- The green armchair / Minfong Ho. Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs. |
SC WAL |
A walk in my world : international short stories about youth. New York : Persea, c1998.
A collection of short stories from around the world including works by such authors as Valentin Rasputin, Yasunari Kawabata, and Toni Cade Bambara. |
F EDW |
Edwardson, Debby Dahl. Blessing's bead. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born. |
F ELL |
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-. Bifocal. Markham, Ont. ; : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2007.
A novel told from the points of view of Jay, a white football player, and Haroon, a family-oriented Muslim student, in which tensions rise along racial lines at a high school after a boy is arrested for suspected terrorist affiliations. |
F ELL |
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-. Mud city. Toronto, Ont. ; : Douglas & McIntyre ;, c2003.
The story of fourteen-year-old Shauzia, who escaped from Kabul, Afghanistan and who is unhappy with her life as a refugee in a camp in Pakistan. |
F ELL |
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-. Parvana's journey. Toronto, Ont. ; : Douglas & McIntyre ;, c2002.
With Kabul in ruins from the Taliban's control, Parvana dresses as a boy and sets out to leave Afghanistan in search of her family. |
F FLA |
Flake, Sharon. Begging for change. 1st ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for children, c2003.
African-American teenager Raspberry Hill, off the streets after years of homelessness with her mother, inexplicably steals money from one of her best friends and wonders if she is no different than her recently returned, drug-addicted, thieving father. |
F FRI |
Friedman, D. Dina. Escaping into the night. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2006.
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II. |
F GEO |
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Charlie's raven. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2004.
Charlie, having heard from his Teton Sioux Indian friend that ravens can cure people, brings home a baby raven in hopes of helping his ailing grandfather, and sets the stage for a learning experience that brings new life to everyone in his family. |
F GEO |
George, Jean Craighead, 1919-. Julie of the wolves. New York : HarperCollins, c1972.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack. |
F GOR PB |
Gordon, Sheila. Waiting for the rain : a novel of South Africa. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1997], c1987.
Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths-- one black, one white-- as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier. |
F GRI |
Grimes, Nikki. Bronx masquerade. New York : Dial Books, c2002.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. |
F GRI |
Grimes, Nikki. Jazmin's notebook. 1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1998.
Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life. |
F GUN |
Gündisch, Karin, 1948-. How I became an American. Chicago : Cricket Books, c2001.
In 1902, ten-year-old Johann and his family, Germans who had been living in Austria-Hungary, board a ship to immigrate to Youngstown, Ohio, where they make a new life as Americans. |
F Han |
Hansen, Joyce. I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary of Patsy, a freed girl. New York : Scholastic, c1997.
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves. |
F HAU |
Haugaard, Erik Christian. The boy and the samurai. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1991.
Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life. |
F HAU |
Haugaard, Erik Christian. The revenge of the forty-seven samurai. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death. |
F HIN |
Hinton, Nigel, 1941-. Walk the wild road. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, c2011.
In war-torn Poland in 1870, ten-year-old Leo, the oldest of nine children of impoverished parents, sets out to earn a living, hoping one day to help his family by making his fortune in America. |
F HO PB |
Ho, Minfong. The clay marble. Sunburst ed. (New York) : Farrar, 1993.
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family. |
F HO |
Ho, Minfong. The stone goddess. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003.
After the Communists take over Cambodia and her family is torn from their city life, twelve-year-old Nakri and her older sister attempt to maintain their hope as well as their classical dancing skills in the midst of their struggle to survive. |
F HOB |
Hobbs, Will. Bearstone. [1st ed.]. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1989.
A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man. |
FIC HOL |
Holt, Kimberly Willis. Keeper of the night. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2003.
Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the death of Isabel's mother who committed suicide. |
F HOO PB |
Hoobler, Dorothy. The ghost in the Tokaido Inn. Sleuth ed. New York : Puffin, 2005, c1999.
Fourteen-year-old Seiki, a tea merchant's son who longs to be samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel. |
F HOO |
Hoobler, Dorothy. In darkness, death. New York : Philomel Books, c2004.
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai. |
F HOO PB |
Hoobler, Dorothy. The sword that cut the burning grass : a samurai mystery. Sleuth ed. New York : Sleuth Puffin, 2006, c2005.
In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers. |
F JIM |
Jiménez, Francisco, 1943-. La maríposa. Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, c1998.
Because he can only speak Spanish, Francisco, son of a migrant worker, has trouble when he begins first grade, but his fascination with the caterpillar in the classroom helps him begin to fit in. |
F JOH |
Johnson, Angela. Looking for Red. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002.
A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod. |
F JOH |
Johnson, Angela. Toning the sweep. New York : Scholastic, 1994, c1993.
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history. |
F JON |
Jones, Traci L. Standing against the wind. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
After her mother is sent to jail, eighth-grader Patrice Williams moves to Chicago to live with her aunt Mae where she attends a school filled with gangs and drug runners, applies for a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, and learns there is hope for her future. |
F JOS |
Joseph, Lynn. The color of my words. 1st ed. New York : Joanna Cotler Books, c2000.
When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday. |
F KAD |
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop. |
F KOJ PB |
Koja, Kathe. Buddha boy. New York : Speak, 2004, c2003.
Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school. |
F KUR |
Kurtz, Jane. Saba : under the hyena's foot. Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Co., c2003.
After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelve-year-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor's desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840's. |
F LAI PB |
Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the dust. New York : Puffin Books, 1994, c1991.
Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future. |
F LEE PB |
Lee, Marie G. If it hadn't been for Yoon Jun. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
As she reluctantly becomes friends with Yoon Jun, a new student from Korea, seventh grader Alice Larsen becomes more interested in learning about her own Korean background. |
F LES |
Lester, Alison. Quicksand pony. 1st Houghton Mifflin ed. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
After her pony Bella, trapped in quicksand, is rescued by a mysterious unseen person, ten-year-old Biddy follows the trail into the Australian bush and discovers the solution to a disappearance that happened years ago. |
F LEV |
Levitin, Sonia. The return. New York : Fawcett Juniper, 1988, c1987.
Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel. |
F LEV |
Levitin, Sonia, 1934-. Journey to America. 2nd ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1993], c1970.
A Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 endures innumerable separations before they are once again united. |
F LIP |
Lipsyte, Robert. Warrior angel. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title. |
F LOW |
Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1989.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. |
F LYN PB |
Lynch, Chris. Gold dust. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2002, c2000.
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napolean, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napolean will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school. |
F LYO |
Lyons, Mary E. Letters from a slave girl : the story of Harriet Jacobs. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1992.
A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842. |
F Mar |
Martinez, Victor, 1954-. Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996.
Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. |
F MAS |
Mason, Prue. Camel rider. 1st U.S. ed. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2007.
Two expatriates living in a Middle Eastern country, twelve-year-old Adam from Australia and Walid from Bangladesh, must rely on one another when war breaks out and they find themselves in the desert, both trying to reach the same city with no water, little food, and no common language. |
F MCC |
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The kite rider : a novel. 1st American ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2002.
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. |
F MCG |
McGill, Alice. Miles' song. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave. |
F MCK |
McKissack, Pat, 1944-. A friendship for today. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2007.
Twelve-year-old Rosemary Patterson learns that she will be attending an all-white school in the fall; but when her best friend is diagnosed with polio, she must face the first day of school alone. |
F MED |
Medina, Meg. Milagros : girl from away. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2008.
Twelve-year-old Milagros barely survives an invasion of her tiny, Caribbean island home, escapes with the help of mysterious sea creatures, reunites briefly with her pirate-father, and learns about a mother's love when cast ashore on another island. |
F MEY PB |
Meyer, Carolyn. White lilacs. San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Company, c1993.
In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, twelve-year-old Rose Lee sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. |
F MIK |
Mikaelsen, Ben, 1952-. Red midnight. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers/Rayo, c2002.
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. |
F MIL |
Miles, Victoria, 1966-. Magnifico. Markham, Ont. ; : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2006.
Mariangela longs to play the piano, but her Italian immigrant family arranges for accordion lessons instead, and she is mortified when her reluctant struggle to make the bulky instrument sing appears doomed to failure. |
F MOE PB |
Moeri, Louise. The forty-third war. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
Twelve-year-old Uno is conscripted into the army of a revolutionary force in a Central American country that is fighting for its freedom. |
F MOR PB |
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's daughter. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Fawcett Juniper, 1994.
After Yuki's mother commits suicide, the 12-year-old girl must live with her distant father and his resentful new wife. Cut off from her mother's family, Yuki learns to rely on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. |
F MOS |
Mosher, Richard. Zazoo. New York : Clarion Books, c2001.
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. |
F MYE |
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. The dream bearer. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior. |
F MYE PB |
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Fallen angels. Special anniversary ed. New York : Scholastic, [2008], c1988.
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. |
F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Scorpions. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. |
F MYE PB |
Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. Somewhere in the darkness. New York : Scholastic Signature, [2003?], c1992.
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an, often painful, time of discovery for them both. |
F NAM |
Namioka, Lensey. An ocean apart, a world away : a novel. New York : Delacorte Press, 2002.
Yanyan, having always wanted to be a doctor, makes a difficult decision to leave the exciting Liang Baoshu behind in China and moves to New York to attend medical school. |
F NAP |
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-. Alligator bayou. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2009.
Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian uncles and cousin live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to be polite and to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn. |
F NAY PB |
Naylor, Gloria. Mama Day. Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1993, c1988.
Mama Day uses her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and puts herself in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her niece, Cocoa. |
F TAY PB |
O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the river, river to the sea : a novel of Sacagawea. New York : Fawcett Juniper, 1988, c1986.
A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific. |
F ODE PB |
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Black Star, Bright Dawn. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured. |
F PAR |
Park, Linda Sue. A long walk to water : a novel : based on a true story. Boston : Clarion Books, 2010.
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. |
F PAR |
Park, Linda Sue. Project Mulberry : a novel. New York : Clarion, c2005.
Julia, a Korean-American, and her friend Patrick learn about tolerance, friendship, and patience while working together on a project about silkworms. |
F PAR |
Park, Linda Sue. A single shard. New York : Clarion Books, c2001.
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
F PAR |
Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko. New York : Clarion Books, c2002.
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. |
F PAU PB |
Paulsen, Gary. The crossing. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1990], c1987.
Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border. |
F PER |
Perkins, Mitali. Bamboo people : a novel. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2010.
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other. |
F QAM |
Qamar, Amjed. Beneath my mother's feet. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008.
When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her. |
F RAP |
Raphael, Marie. A boy from Ireland : a novel. 1st ed. New York : Persea Books, c2007.
Bullied because of the English father he barely remembers, fourteen-year-old Liam gladly leaves Connemara, Ireland, in 1901 with his uncle and sister, but his problems follow them to Hell's Kitchen in New York City, until he finds a way to leave the past behind. |
F RAP PB |
Raphael, Marie. Streets of gold : a novel. New York : Persea Books, c2001.
Marisia, a Polish teenager, comes to America at the turn of the twentieth century and must fend for herself on New York's Lower East Side. |
F RAY |
Ray, Delia. Singing hands. New York : Clarion Books, c2006.
In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders. |
F REE |
Rees, Celia. Pirates! : the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury ;, 2003.
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an arranged marriage and slavery. |
F RHU |
Rhuday-Perkovich, Olugbemisola. 8th grade superzero. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010.
Reggie, who is known as "Pukey" McKnight at his Brooklyn middle school, attempts to refine his image and social status, and when he gets involved at a local homeless shelter, two clients help him believe he is making a difference, which could help him in the world and at school. |
SC RIC |
Rice, David, 1964-. Crazy loco : stories. New York : Dial Books, c2001.
A collection of nine stories about Mexican American kids growing up in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas. |
F ROD |
Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee girl. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004.
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school. |
F RYA |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Becoming Naomi León. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2004.
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father. |
F RYA PB |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza rising. New York : Scholastic, [2001], c2000.
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. |
F SAN PB |
Ṣāniʿ, Rajāʾ ʿAbd Allāh. Girls of Riyadh. New York : Penguin Books, 2008, c2007.
Four young women from Saudi Arabia's upper classes face the prejudices and strict rules of their culture and struggle to lead the lives they want. |
F SEB PB |
Sebestyen, Ouida. Words by heart. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1996], c1979.
A young African-American girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only African-Americans. |
F SHE |
Shea, Pegi Deitz. Tangled threads : a Hmong girl's story. New York : Clarion Books, c2003.
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. |
F SME |
Smelcer, John E., 1963-. The trap. 1st ed. New York : Holt, 2006.
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter. |
F SMI |
Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Rain is not my Indian name. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2001.
Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp. |
SC SNE |
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. Grandpa was a cowboy & an Indian and other stories. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.
A collection of sixteen short stories by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. |
F SON |
Son, John. Finding my hat. 1st ed. New York : Orchard Books, 2003.
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. |
SC SOT |
Soto, Gary. Baseball in April and other stories. 10th anniversary ed. San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., [2000], c1990.
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. |
SC SOT |
Soto, Gary. Local news. New York : Scholastic, 1994, c1993.
A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican American young people in California's Central Valley. |
F SOT PB |
Soto, Gary. Pacific crossing. 1st Harcourt pbk. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 1992.
Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends. |
F SOT |
Soto, Gary. Taking sides. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, c1991.
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood. |
F STA |
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shabanu : daughter of the wind. New York : Knopf :, c1989.
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. |
F STA |
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the persimmon tree. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends. |
F TAY PB |
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of thunder, hear my cry. New York : Puffin Books, 1997, c1976.
An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. |
F TAY |
Taylor, Theodore. The cay. New York : Delecorte Press, [1987], c1969.
After the freighter on which Phillip and his mother were traveling from wartime Curacao to the U.S. is torpedoed, the boy finds himself dependent on an old West Indian for survival. |
F TAY PB |
Taylor, Theodore. The Maldonado miracle. Camelot ed. New York : Avon, 1986, c1973.
A twelve-year-old Mexican crosses the border illegally to join his father in California. |
F TEM PB |
Temple, Frances. Taste of salt : a story of modern Haiti. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1994, c1992.
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, 17-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti. |
F TEM PB |
Temple, Frances. Tonight, by sea : a novel. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1997, c1995.
As governmental brutality and poverty become unbearable, Paulie joins with others in her small Haitian village to help her uncle secretly build a boat they will use to try to escape to the United States. |
F VEL PB |
Velasquez, Gloria. Rina's family secret. Houston, Tex. : Piñata Books, 1998.
A Puerto Rican teenager describes her family's life with her abusive stepfather in alternating chapters with the story of the counselor who is trying to help them. |
F WHE |
Whelan, Gloria. Chu Ju's house. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old Chu Ju leaves her rural home in modern China and earns food and shelter by working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she will ever see her family again. |
F WHE PB |
Whelan, Gloria. Goodbye, Vietnam. 1st Knopf Paperback ed. New York : Alfred A Knopf, distributed by Random House, 1997, c1992.
Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. |
F WHI |
Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward. Blue fingers : a ninja's tale. New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai have burned his former village. |
F WIN |
Winkler, Henry, 1945-. Holy enchilada! New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c2004.
Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe. |
F WOO |
Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.). Emako Blue. New York : Putnams, c2004.
Monterey, Savannah, Jamal, and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los Angeles high school students become intertwined, tragedy tears them apart. |
F WOO |
Woodson, Jacqueline. After Tupac & D Foster. New York : Putnam's, c2008.
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live. |
F WOO |
Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2007.
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light. |
SC YEE |
Yee, Paul. Dead man's gold and other stories. Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre ;, c2002.
Dead man's gold -- Digging deep -- Sky-high -- The memory stone -- Seawall sightings -- The peddler -- The brothers -- Alone no longer -- First wife -- Reunited. A collection of ten short stories by Paul Yee about Chinese immigrants struggling to make new lives for themselves in North America. |
F YEP |
Yep, Laurence. Angelfish. New York : Putnam's, c2001.
Robin, a young ballet dancer who is half Chinese and half white, works in a fish store for Mr. Tsow, a brusque Chinese who accuses her of being a half-person and who harbors a bitter secret. |
F YEP |
Yep, Laurence. The cook's family. New York : Putnam, c1998.
As her parents' arguments become more frequent, Robin looks forward to the visits that she and her grandmother make to Chinatown, where they pretend to be an elderly cook's family, giving Robin new insights into her Chinese heritage. |
F Yep |
Yep, Laurence. Dragon's gate. New York : HarperCollins, c1993.
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. |
F MIN PB |
Yep, Laurence. The journal of Wong Ming-Chung : a Chinese miner. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic, 2000.
A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush. |
F YEP PB |
Yep, Laurence. Mountain light. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1997.
Swept up in one of the local rebellions against the Manchus in China, nineteen-year-old Squeaky loses his home and travels to America to seek his fortune among the gold fields of California. Sequel to "The Serpent's Children.". |
F YEP |
Yep, Laurence. Ribbons. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1996.
A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family. |
F YEP PB |
Yep, Laurence. The serpent's children. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1996.
In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother. |
F YEP |
Yep, Laurence. The star fisher. New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1991.
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s. |
F YEP PB |
Yep, Laurence, 1948-. The amah. New York : Puffin, 2001, c1999.
Twelve-year-old Amy finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home. |
F YEP |
Yep, Laurence, 1948-. Dragon road. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
Cal and Barney, Chinese Americans, are trapped in a world of racial prejudice in 1939 with no jobs and no future until the Dragons, a barnstorming basketball team, invites them to join the team. |
F YEP PB |
Yep, Laurence, 1948-. Ribbons. New York : Putnum & Grosset Group, 1997, c1992.
A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family. |
F YOL PB |
Yolen, Jane. The devil's arithmetic. New York : Puffin Books, 1990, c1988.
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. |
