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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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