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First Crossing : Stories About Teen Immigrants
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.
224 p. 2004
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Abdel-Fattah, Randa.
Ten Things I Hate About Me
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
297 p. 2009
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Alexie, Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
229 p. 2007
Appears on the following book lists:
 Book Trailers Spring 2008
American Indian Youth Literature Award
Good Reads for Guys
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Jen, Gish
The Love Wife
A generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family. Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chinese American warm heart and funny guy. Here is his WASP wife, the delicious "za-za-vavoomy" Blondie. Here are their two adopted Asian daughters, and their half-half bio son. And here is Mama Wong, Carnegie's no-holds-barred mother who is eternally opposed to his marriage.
379 p. 2005
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Kadohata, Cynthia
Outside Beauty
Thirteen-year-old Shelby and her three sisters must go to live with their respective fathers while their mother, who has trained them to rely on their looks, recovers from a car accident that scarred her face.
265 p. 2008
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Lekuton, Joseph
Facing the Lion
A member of the Masai people describes his life as he grew up in a northern Kenya village, traveled to America to attend college, and became an elementary school teacher in Virginia.
127 p. 2003
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Ly, Many
Home is East
After her mother moves out, a ten-year-old Cambodian American girl and her old-fashioned father leave their home in Florida to begin a new life in San Diego, experiencing turmoil and change as they slowly adjust to their new circumstances.
294 p. 2005
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Na, An
A Step from Heaven
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.
156 p. 2001
Appears on the following book lists:
Printz Medal Winners
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
Amelia Bloomer Project
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Na, An
Wait for Me
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
169 p. 2006
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Namioka, Lensey
An Ocean Apart, a World Away
An inspiring story of one girl's struggle to define a role for herself in two countries on either side of the Pacific and to help carve a new path for generations of women after her.
197 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
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Namioka, Lensey
April and the Dragon Lady
Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative grandmother, sixteen-year-old April Chen fights for her independence.
214 p. 2007
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Park, Linda Sue
When My Name Was Keoko
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.
199 p. 2002
Appears on the following book lists:
War Stories
Multicultural - chapter books
It's Due Tomorrow!
Jane Addams Peace Award for Older Readers honor books
Audio books - history on the go (6 hours plus)
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Perkins, Mitali
The Not-so-star-spangled Life of Sunita Sen
When her grandparents come for a visit from India to California, thirteen-year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself and her friends.
176 p. 2005
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Pilkington, Doris
Rabbit-proof Fence
Doris Pilkington traces the captivating story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from her community in Australia and take to the Moore River Native Settlement. While there they were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their aboriginal heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls-- scared and homesick-- planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp.
136 p. 2006
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Reinhardt, Dana
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing her battle with cancer.
228 p. 2006
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Satrapi, Marjane
The Complete Persepolis
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic-strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effect of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran: the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life and the toll repressive regimes exact on the individual spirit.
341 p. 2008
Appears on the following book lists:
Graphic Novels: Memoirs and History
World Authors
Amelia Bloomer Project
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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.
236 p. 2003
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
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Sheth, Kashmira
Blue Jasmine
When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
186 p. 2004
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Sheth, Kashmira
Koyal Dark Mango Sweet
Growing up with her family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be more modern and independent.
250 p. 2006
Appears on the following book lists:
Discussion Guides - Teen Books
World Authors
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Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Under the Persimmon Tree
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
275 p. 2005
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