Multicultural
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| Title | Author | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behind the Mountains | Danticat, Edwidge | Haitian-American | Girl keeps a diary of her experiences as an immigrant to the U.S. |
| Born Confused | Desai Hidier, Tanjua | East Indian-American | Being caught between 2 cultures - American and Indian - is hard |
| Buried Onions | Soto, Gary | Mexican-American | Boy drops out of college and struggles with his place in the world |
| Burro Genius | Villasenor, Victor | Mexican-American | Biography of current Hispanic author from Southern California |
| Children of the River | Crew, Linda | Thai-American | Girl in Oregon in 1992, remembers Khmer Rouge in Thailand 1975 |
| Circuit, The: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child | Jimenez, Francisco | Mexican-American | Stories of migrant family on "the circuit" of farm work |
| Does My Head Look Big in This? | Abdel-Fattah, Randa | Arab-Australian | Girl decides to wear a hijab at school to show her faith |
| Education of Little Tree, The | Carter, Forrest | Native American | Cherokee boy who lives in Appalachian Mountains |
| Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz | Mexican-American | Family left good life in Mexico during Depression to work in U.S. |
| First Part Last | Johnson, Angela | African-American |
Teen wants to be responsible and care for his baby |
| Handbook for Boys | Myers, Walter Dean | African-American |
Teen on probation gets friendship and advice from local barbershop |
| Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | Hindu/Indian culture |
Young girl must enter into an arranged marriage in India |
| Keeper of the Night | Holt, Kimberly | Guamanian | Coping with suicide of her mother, a girl struggles |
| La Linea | Jaramillo, Ann | Mexican-American | Boy crosses over into US illegally |
| Mexican Whiteboy | De La Pena, Matt | Mexican-American | San Diego boy plays baseball but feels he doesn't fit in |
| Monster | Myers, Walter Dean | African-American | Teen records his experiences in court and prison |
| Romiette and Julio | Draper, Sharon | African-American | Romeo / Juliet story of Hispanic boy and African-American girl |
| Slam! | Myers, Walter Dean | African-American | Teen boy wants basketball to be his ticket out of the ghetto |
| Sold | McCormick, Patricia | Nepal / American | Parents sell their young daughter into slavery in Nepal |
| Step from Heaven | Na, An | Korean-American | Family has difficult adjustment after moving to the US from Korea |
| Stones into Schools | Mortenson, Greg | Afghani / American | True story of man who built schools for Afghani girls |
| Touching Spirit Bear | Mikaelsen, Ben | Native American | Tlingit boy has legal trouble in Alaska and gets unusual sentence |
| When I Was Puerto Rican | Santiago, Esmeralda | Puerto Rican | Biography of immigrant experiences, from Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, NY |
| You Don't Even Know Me | Flake, Sharon | African-American | 9 stories and 13 poems about African-American boys |
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