Bibliography: MULTICULTURAL FICTION FIC ABD 
Abdel-Fettah, Randa. Does My Head Look Big in This? Orchard Books, c2007.
Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
FIC ABE
Abelove, Joan. Go and Come Back : a Novel. 1st American ed. New York: DK Inc.,[1998].
Alicia, a young tribeswoman living in a Amazonian village in the Andes, tells about the two American women anthropologists who arrive to study the way of life of her people.
FIC ALL
Allende, Isabel. City of the Beasts. New York: HarperCollins, [2002].
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic
grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon,
he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
FIC BEL
Bell, William. Forbidden city : a Novel. New York: Bantam, [1990].
Note: Alex Jackson and his dad become part of the great historical events that sweep China in the spring of 1989.
FIC CAR
Carmi, Daniella. Samir and Yonatan. New York, N. Y: Arthur A. Levine Books,2000].
Samir , a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars, where Samir finds peace.
FIC CLA
Clark, Ann (Nolan) and Charlot, Jean. Secret of the Andes. New York: Viking Press, [1952].
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
FIC CRE
Creech, Sharon and Raschka, Christopher. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. 1st ed. New York: Joanna Cotler Books, [2003].
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey,the boy next door.
FIC DAN
Danticat, Edwidge. Behind the Mountains. New York: Scholastic, [2002].
Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.
FIC DEN
Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp. 1st ed. New York: Scholastic Inc, [1999].
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. Includes historical notes. [My Name is America series]
FIC GUN
Gundisch, Karin and Skofield, James. How I Became an American. Chicago: Cricket Books, [2001].
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.
FIC JAN
Jansen, Hanna. Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You. 1st American ed. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda, [2006]. Jeanne, the only member of her family not murdered in the Rwandan genocide, struggles to start a new life without her family while coping with the violent memories that haunt her.
FIC LAS
Lasky, Kathryn. Hope in My Heart. New York: Scholastic, [2003].
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten- year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes. [Dear American series]
GB FIC LAT
Lat. Kampung Boy.1st American ed. New York: First Second, [2006].
Relates the life experiences, from birth to his start in boarding school, of a Muslim boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia. [GRAPHIC NOVEL]
FIC LEW
Lewis, Elizabeth (Foreman) and Young, Ed. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. [1 st rev. ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1973, 1932].
In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune.
FIC LIN
Lin, Grace. The Year of the Dog : a Novel. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Little, Brown, [2007, 2006].
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
FIC LOR
Lord, Bette and Simont, Marc. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.
New York, N.Y: Harper & Row, [1984].
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
FIC MAR
Marsden, Carolyn. Silk Umbrellas.
Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead.
FIC MAZ
Mazer, Norma Fox. Good night, Maman. New York: HarperCollins, [1999].
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
FIC MCK
McKissack, Pat. Color me dark : the Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North. 1st ed. New York: Scholastic, [2000]. Includes historical notes [Dear America Series]
FIC MEY
Meyer, Carolyn. Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess. New York: Scholastic, [2000].
Includes historical notes [Royal Diary Series]
Novel in diary form about the daughter of Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia and life of the royal family before the Russian Revolution in 1918. Includes historical notes. [Royal Diary series]
FIC MOS
Mosher, Richard. Zazoo. New York: Clarion Books, [2001].
Vietnamese girl trying to adjust to life in France.
FIC MOR
Mori, Kyoko. One Bird. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt, [1995].
After her mother abandons them, fifteen-year-old Megumi tries to understand her father's need for his mistress while dealing with her isolation.
FIC MOR
Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's Daughter. 1st ed. New York: H. Holt, [1993].
After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. Set in Japan.
FIC MUR
Murphy, Jim. West to a Land of Plenty : the Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi.
New York: Scholastic, [1998]. Dear America.
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Includes historical notes [Dear America Series]
FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break : a Novel. New York: Dell Yearling, [1999].
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey and Kiefte, Kees de. Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear. 1 st ed. Boston: Joy Street Books, [1992].
Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao Is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.
FIC NIX
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Land of Dreams. New York: Delacorte Press, [1994].
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.
FIC NIX
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Land of hope. New York: Bantam, [1992].
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.
FIC NYE
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. New York: Aladdin Books, [1997].
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
FIC ORL
Orlev, Uri. Lydia, Queen of Palestine. New York, NY: Penguin Books, [1991].
Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents divorce amid the chaos of war and her life on a Kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.
FIC ORT
Ortiz, Judith Ortiz Cofer. Call me Maria : a Novel. New York : Orchard Books, 2004.
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
FIC OSA
Osa, Nancy. Cuba 15 : a Novel. New York: Delacorte Press, [2003].
Violet Paz, a Chicago high school student, reluctantly prepares for her upcoming "quince," a Spanish nickname for the celebration of an Hispanic girl's fifteenth birthday.
FIC PAR
Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko. New York: Clarion, [2002].
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.
FIC PAR
Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. New York: Clarion Books, [2001].
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
FIC PAR
Park, Linda Sue. Seesaw Girl. New York: Avon, [1999].
Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world.
FIC PAR
Park, Linda Sue and Park, Eung Won. The Kite Fighters. New York: Dell, [2000].
In Korea in 1473, eleven-year-old Young-sup overcomes his rivalry with his older brother Kee-sup, who as the first-born son receives special treatment from their father, and combines his kite-flying skill with Kee-sup's kite -making skill in an attempt to win the New Year kite-fighting competition.
FIC PAT Paterson, Katherine and Wells, Haru. The Master Puppeteer. New York: Crowell,[1975].
A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.
FIC ROB
Robinet, Harriette. Walking to the Bus-rider Blues. 1st Aladdin
Paperbacks ed.
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, [2002, 2000].
Twelve-year-old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956.
FIC RYA
Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza Rising. 1st ed. New York: Scholastic, [2000].
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.
FIC SAY
Sayres, Meghan Nuttall. Anahita's Woven Riddle.New York: Amulet Books, [2006].
In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.
FIC STA
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shiva's Fire. New York: HarperCollins, [2000].
In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.
FIC STE Steiber, Ellen. Shadow of the Fox. New York: Random House, [1994].
When a mysterious young woman named Mariko saves the life of the samurai Shiro, he falls in love and marries her, only to discover that his wife assumes the shape of a fox at night.
FIC UCH
Uchida, Yoshiko. A Jar of Dreams. 2nd ed. New York: Aladdin, [1993,1981].
Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice.
FIC UCH
Uchida, Yoshiko and Robinson, Charles. Journey Home. 2nd Aladdin paperbacks ed. New York: Aladdin, [1992].
After their release from an American concentration camp, a Japanese -American girl and her family try to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
FIC WAT
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So far from the Bamboo Grove : by Yoko Kawashima Watkins. 1st Beech Tree ed. Nev York: Beech Tree Books, [1994].
A fictionalized autobiography in which eleven-year-old Yoko escapes from Korea to Japan with her mother and sister at the end of World War II.
FIC WHA
Whalen, Gloria. Chu-ju’s house.
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.
FIC WHE
Whelan, Gloria. Listening for Lions. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, [2005].
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
FIC WIL
Wilson, Diane L. I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade. New York: Orchard Books, 1998]. Note: Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1339.
FIC WOJ
Wojciechowska, Maia and Smith, Alvin. Shadow of a Bull. [1st ed.]. New York: Atheneum, [1964].
Manolo Olivar is the son of the greatest matador in Spain, Juan Olivar, who was killed by a bull. Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
FIC YEP
Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, [1975].
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
FIC YEP
Yep, Laurence. The Amah. New York: Puffin, [1999].
Twelve-year-old Amy, a Chinese-American girl,
finds her family responsibilities growing and interfering with her ballet practice when her mother takes a job outside the home.
SHORT STORIES
SC FIR
Mistry, Nilesh. Fire and Wings : Dragon Tales from East and West.
Chicago: Cricket Books, [2002].
A collection of stories about all kinds of dragons, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Patricia MacLaughlin, Eric Kimmel, Vida Chu, and E. Nesbit.
SC JIM
Jimenez, Francisco. The Circuit : Stories from the Life of a Migrant child. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1997].
Explores a migrant family's experiences moving through labor camps, facing poverty and impermanence, and discusses how they endure through faith, hope, and back-breaking work.
SC ORT Ortiz, Judith Ortiz Cofer
An Island Like You : Stories of the Barrio / [by] Judith Ortiz Cofer.-- New York : Orchard, 1995.
Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.
SC ROC
Rocklin, Joanne. Strudel Stories. New York: Dell, [1999].
Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel.
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