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Applegate, Katherine
Home of the Brave
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.
249 p. 2007
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Barakat, Ibtisam
Tasting the Sky : a Palestinian Childhood
A memoir of Ibtisam Barakat’s early childhood memories of sorrow, simply joys, and confusion told against the backdrop of a country shattered by war. If you enjoyed Ann Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl or other true accounts of the Holocaust you might also like Tasting the Sky.
176 p. 2007
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Brown, Jackie
Little Cricket
When the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, 12-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos. The family settles in a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually moves to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
252 p. 2004
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Budhos, Marina Tamar
Ask Me No Questions
Fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family leave Bangladesh for New York City. But the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
162 p. 2006
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Chen, Pauline
Peiling and the Chicken-fried Christmas
Fifth-grader Peiling Wang wants to celebrate a real American Christmas, much to the displeasure of her traditional, Taiwanese-born father.
133 p. 2007
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Cheng, Andrea
Honeysuckle House
An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from China find little in common when they meet in their fourth grade classroom. But they are both missing their best friends and soon discover other connections.
136 p. 2004
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Choi, Sook Nyul
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Soviet occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.
171 p. 1991
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Clinton, Cathryn
A Stone in My Hand
Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians. First her father disappears and then her older brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad.
191 p. 2002
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Coerr, Eleanor
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
80 p. 1977
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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
The Conch Bearer
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.
265 p. 2003
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Dorris, Michael
Morning Girl
Morning Girl, a Taino child who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
74 p. 1992
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Ellis, Deborah
I Am a Taxi
Twelve-year-old Diego lives in a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with his parents who have been falsely arrested for smuggling drugs. He attends school and works as a "taxi," running errands for inmates in the street market. Diego's friend, Mando, says they can make big money, and the boys find themselves in danger deep in the jungle of Bolivia.
205 p. 2006
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Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster
While journeying to Zimbabwe from Mozambique, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
309 p. 1996
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Hesse, Karen
Letters from Rifka
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
148 p. 2009
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Hirahara, Naomi
1001 Cranes
With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
230 p. 2008
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Ho, Minfong
The Stone Goddess
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.
201 p. 2003
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Hollyer, Belinda
River Song
Jessye loves living with her grandmother in a traditional Maori village, but when her free-wheeling mother comes back into her life, Jessye must decide whether to stay or move to the city.
170 p. 2008
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Jiang, Ji-li
Red Scarf Girl : a Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Ji-li Jiang recounts her experiences as a young girl growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution.
285 p. 1997
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Joseph, Lynn
The Color of My Words
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.
138 p. 2000
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Kent, Rose
Kimchi and Calamari
Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past.
220 p. 2007
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