| F Arr |
Arrick, Fran. Chernowitz!. A boy who suffers anti-Semitic abuse at the hands of a classmate during this ninth and tenth grade years plots revenge against his tormentor. |
| F Bea |
Beatty, Patricia. Lupita Manana. To help her poverty-stricken family, thirteen-year-old Lupita enters California as an illegal alien and starts to work while constantly on the watch for "la migra". |
| F Blo |
Blos, Joan W. Brothers of
the heart: A Story of the old Northwest. Fourteen-year-old Shem spends six months inthe Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficuilties of life as a cripple. |
| F Bro |
Brooks, Bruce. The Moves Make
the Man: A Novel. A black boy and an emotionally troubled white boy in North Carolina form a precarious friendship. |
| F Can |
Cannon. The Shadow Brothers. |
| F Cha |
Chang, Margaret Scrogin. In
the Eye of War. During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-Shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor. |
| F Cra |
Craven, Margaret. I Heard
the Owl Call My Name. A young priest, unaware that he has only two years to live, is sent to a parish in the seacoast wilds of British Columbia. |
| F Cre |
Crew, Linda. Children of the
River. Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escapte the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon hish school as a "regular" American. |
| F Dal |
Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage
of Sarah Noble. Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family. |
| F Dye |
Dyer, T. A. A Way of His Own. A lame boy from a very primitive nomadic tribe is abandoned by his family and, together with a girl stolen from another tribe, tries to survive a cruel winter. |
| F Ell |
Ellis, Sarah. Next-Door Neighbors. Her family's move to a new town in Canada leaves shy twelve-year-old Peggy feeling lonely and uncomfortable, until she befriends the unconventional George and the Chinese servant of her imperious neighbor, Mrs. Manning. |
| F Fle |
Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia. In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past. |
| 921 Fritz |
Fritz, Jean. Homesick, My
Own Story. This is the author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920s. |
| F Gir |
Girion, Barbara. Indian Summer. While spending summer vacation on an Indian reservation, twelve-year-old Joni has a difficult time getting along with Sarah Birdsong and her friends, who seem to hold her responsible for the prejudice they experience outside the reservation. |
| F Gor |
Gordon, Sheila. Waiting for
the Rain: A Novel of South Africa. This is the chronicle of nine years in the lives of two South African youths -- one black, one white -- as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier. |
| F Gre |
Gregory, Kristina. Jenny of
the Tetons. Wounded and orphaned by an Indian attack, young Carrie Hill joins a trapper's family only to discover the trapper's wife is a Shoshone Indian Carrie's fear turns to respect and understanding as she travels with this frontier family. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virgina. The Magical
Adventures of Pretty Pearl. Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager to show off her powers, travels to the New World where, disguised as a human, he lives among a band of free blacks who have created their own separate world deep inside a vast forest. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. Sweet
Whispers, Brother Rush. Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. The Mystery
of Drear House. A black family living in the house of long dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one-hundred-years in a cavern near their home. |
| 398.2 Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. The People
Could Fly: American Black Folktales. This book contains retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. The Planet
of Junior Brown. Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. Willie
Bea and the Time the Martians Landed. In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated from Orson Welles' Martians Have Landed broadcast. |
| F Ham |
Hamilton, Virginia. Zeely. Greeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. |
| F Han |
Hansen, Joyce. Out From the
Place. A fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union army during the Civil War, during the confusing times after the emancipation of the slaves. |
| F Han |
Hansen, Joyce. Which Way Freedom? Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in a bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. |
| F Hig |
Highwater, Jamake. Legend
Days. Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches the progressive disintegration of her people. |
| F Ho |
Ho, Minfong. Rice Without
Rain. After social rebels convince the headman of a small village in northern Thailand to resist the land rent, his seventeen-year-old daughter Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok. |
| F Hob |
Hobbs, Will. Bearstone. Sent by his tribe to a group home for Indian boys, fourteen-year-old Cloyd was troubled and desperate, but he discovers himself, his ancient ancestors, and an old man's love after he finds a carved turquoise bear. |
| F Hud |
Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass. Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father. |
| 921 Huyng |
Huyng, Quang Nhuong. The Land
I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam. This is a collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam. |
| F Kat |
Katz, Welwyn Wilton. False
Face. Thirteen-year-old Laney, troubled by the animosity between her divorced parents, and fourteen-year-old Tom, determined to preserve his Indian identity, from an uneasy alliance after finding rare Indian false face masks. |
| F Lai |
Laird, Christa. Shadow of
the Wall. Living with his mother and two sisters in the Warsaw Ghetto, Misha is befriended by the director of an orphanage, Dr. Korczak, and finds a purpose to his life when he joins a resistance organization. |
| F Lai |
Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the
Dust. Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future. |
| SC Les |
Lester, Julius. This Strange
New Feeling. These six true stories from black history are about ordinary people and their extraordinary lives. |
| F Lev |
Levitin, Sonia. Silver Days. Escaping from Hitler's Germany, a prosperous jewish family lives in a New York City tenament until Papa decides to move the family to California. |
| F Lin |
Lingard, Joan. Tug of War. This book follows the ordeals of fourteen-year-old twins, Astra and Hugo Petersons, as they and their family flee their native Latvia before the advancing Russian armies in late 1944 and find themselves homeless refugees in a war-torn Germany. |
| 973.04 Mel |
Meltzer, Milton. The Black
Americans: A History in Their Own Words. This is a history of Black people in the United States, as told through letters, speeches, articles, eyewitness accounts, and other documents. |
| F Mik |
Miklowitz, Gloria D. The War
Between the Classes. Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband. |
| F Moh |
Mohr, Nicholasa. Going Home. Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico for the first time, eleven-year-old Falita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. |
| F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen
Angels. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. |
| F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean. Hoops. A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player, who, after being forced to quit because of a point-shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake. |
| F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean. Scorpions. After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemiies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun--until a tragedy occurs. |
| F Mye |
Myers, Walter Dean. The Mouse
Rap. During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. |
| F O'De |
O'Dell, Scott. Zia. Aunt Karaqna helps a young Indian girl caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission. |
| F Pat |
Paterson, Katherine. Park's
Quest. Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War. |
| F Pat |
Paterson, Katherine. The Master Puppeteer. |
| F Pat |
Paterson, Katherine. The Sign of the Chrysanthemum. |
| F Pau |
Paulsen, Gary. Dogsong. A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. |
| F Ric |
Richter, Conrad. The Light
in the Forest. John Butler, captured by Delaware Indians and reared as a son of Cuyioga, is forcibly returned eleven years later to his home and parents. |
| SC Som |
Rochman, Hazel. Somehow Tenderness
survives: Stories of Southern Africa. A collection of ten short stories and autobiographical accounts by authors of various races expose the conditions of racism in South Africa. |
| F Sin |
Singer, Marilyn. Several Kinds
of Silence. Faced with her beloved grandmother's illness and her own attraction to a boy her parents disapprove of, Franny tries to shut off her feelings completely. |
| F Sot |
Soto, Gary. Baseball in April
and Other Stories. Calling on his own experiences growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary Soto paints the everyday experiences of contemporary young people. The smart, tough and vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino; their dreams and desires belong to all of us. |
| F Spi |
Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee. After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. |
| F Sta |
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Haveli. Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of hid family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. |
| F Tat |
Tate, Eleanora E. The Secret
of Gumbo Grove. Peer and family relationships, including sibling rivalry, are masterfully blended to create a warm, humorous and wonderful story centered around an intellectually curious and spirited black girl. |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the
Circle be Unbroken. Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Mildred D. Mississippi
Bridge. During a heavy rainstormin 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Mildred D. The Road
to Memphis. Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940s rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state. |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Mildred D. and Max Ginsburg.
The Friendship. Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Mildred D. and Michael
Hays. The Gold Cadillac. Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. |
| F Tay |
Taylor, Theodore. The Maldonado
Miracle. A twelve-year old Mexican crosses the border illegally to join his father in California. |
| F Tel |
Telemaque, Eleanor Wong. It's
Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota. A seventeen-year-old Chinese American in Minnesota and her family tread a balance between the Far East and Middle West. |
| SC Tho |
Thomas, Joyce Carol. A Gathering
of Flowers: Stories about Being Young in America. A collection of eleven short stories depicting what it is like to be young in America, exploring such diverse cultures as urban San Francisco, a Chippewa Indian reservation and a Latino barrio in Chicago. |
| F Uch |
Uchida, Yoshiko. A Jar of
Dreams. A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice. |
| F Uch |
Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey Home. 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. |
| F Uch |
Uchida, Yoshiko. The Happiest
Ending. When twelve-year-old Rinko learns that a neighbor's daughter is coming from Japan to marry a stranger twice her age, she sets out to change this arrangement and gains new insights into love and adult problems. |
| F Voi |
Voight, Cynthia. Come a Stranger. Nina's deep love for a grown-up minister drives her to seek a way to give him an unforgetable remembrance, restoration of his faith. |
| 921 Ward |
Ward, Glenyse. Wandering Girl. The true story of a spirited Aboriginal girl who triumphs over her brutal life as a servant in modern-day Australia. |
| F War |
Wartski, Maureen Crane. A
Long Way from Home. A 15-year-old Vietnamese refugee having difficulty adjusting to the strange ways and language of the United States and his adoptive home runs away to a Vietnamese fishing community hoping he can "belong" there. A sequel to A Boat to Nowhare. |
| F Whe |
Whelan, Gloria. Goodbye, Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. |
| SC Yee |
Yee, Paul. Tales from Gold
Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World. A collection of eight stories reflecting the gritty optimism of the Chinese who overcame prejudice and adversity to build a unique place for themselves in North America. |
| F Yep |
Yep, Laurence. Child of the
Owl. When her father, a compulsive gambler, is hospitalized after a severe beating, Casey moves in with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown. Although she is a street-smart child, Casey finds that she is an outsider in this community. |
| F Yep |
Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings. With the help of his young son Moon Shadow, Windrider endures the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, and the longing for his wife and China, in order to make his dreams come true. |
| 398.2 Yep |
Yep, Laurence. The Rainbow
People. A collection of twenty Chinese folk tales that were passed on by word of mouth for generations, as told by some oldtimers newly settled in the United States. |
| F Yep |
Yep, Laurence. The Star Fisher. Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920's. |
| F Yol |
Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II. She experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she--and we--need |