Region Title Author Brief Description Middle East The Beduins’ Gazelle Frances Temple In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes. Middle East Mud City Deborah Ellis "The story of fourteen-year-old Shauzia, who escaped from Kabul, Afghanistan and who is unhappy with her life as a refugee in a camp in Pakistan. Iran (Persia) Shadow Spinner Susan Fletcher Africa Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta Africa The Legend of Tarik Walter Dean Myers Africa The Bushbabies William Stevenson When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. After witnessing the annihilation of his people by El Muerte's legions, young Tarik undergoes the training which will enable him to destroy this fierce leader. In the Yoruba village of Oyo in 1440, Kai has the opportunity to realize her dream of becoming a sculptor, but at the price of separation from her life in Ife and the loss of her new-found closeness to her sister. Africa Kai: A Big Decision Africa (Yoruba) Sharon Shavers Gayle Africa The Baboon King (Masai and Kikuyu) Anton Quintana Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Morengaru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons. Africa Trouble Jane Kurtz (Eritrea) A retelling of a traditional Eritrean tale in which a young goatherder disobeys his father by trading away the board game that was supposed to keep him out of trouble. Zimbabwe A Girl Named Disaster Egypt The Reluctant God Egypt Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile Nancy Farmer Pamela F. Service Kristiana Gregory While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. While his brother prepares to mount the throne of Egypt as the next member of the Twelfth Dynasty, the teenage prince Ameni is sealed in a secret tomb in a state of suspended animation, to be revived four thousand years later. . . While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day. Egypt For All Time Caroline B. Cooney Sequel to: Prisoner of time. The fourth installment in the time travel series finds Annie, a teenager in 1999, attempting to get back to 1899 Egypt where she hopes to join her boyfriend, Strat, but she instead ends up in ancient Egypt and in great danger. Egypt Tomorrow’s Sphinx Clare Bell Two unusual black cheetahs share a mental link, one cat coming from the past to reveal scenes from his life with the young pharaoh Tutankhamen, and one struggling to survive in a future world ravaged by ecological disaster. Egypt His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut Dorothy Sharp Carter A fictionalized account of the life of Hatshepsut, a queen in ancient Egypt who declared herself king and ruled as such for more than twenty years. Egypt Those Summer Girls I Never Met Egypt Blossom Culp and the Richard Peck Sleep of Death Blossom, high-school freshman and possessor of "second sight," helps an Egyptian princess, dead for 3500 years, to regain her tomb, and in addition saves a suffragette school teacher from losing her job in 1914. Egypt Mara, Daughter of the Nile Eloise McGraw The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled. Beverley Naidoo When the abuse at home becomes too much for twelve-year-old Sipho, he runs away to the streets of Johannesburg and learns to survive in the post-apartheid world. South Africa Chain of Fire Beverley Naidoo When the villagers of Bophelong are forced to leave their houses and resettle in a barren "homeland," thirteen-year-old Naledi and her schoolmates organize an anti-removal march through their village. South Africa Themba Margaret Sacks Themba, a young South African boy, devises a plan to bring his father home safely after he fails to arrive on the train as expected. South Africa No Turning Back Richard Peck Drew and Steph, ages almost-sixteen and fourteen, reluctantly take a Baltic cruise with their heretofore unknown grandmother, a singing star of the 1940s, and have the experience of a lifetime. Nigeria The Other Side of Truth Beverly Naidoo Nigeria Hausaland Tales from the Nigerian Marketplace Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journalist father back in Nigeria. Gavin McINtosh A collection of twelve traditional tales from the Hausa people of Nigeria. Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. Angola Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba Pat McKissack Tanania Jane Goodall: Pioneer Researcher Jane Pettit (biography) Tanania The Place of Lions Eric Campbell Ethiopia The Storyteller’s Beads Jane Kurtz Ethiopia Saba: Under the Hyena’s Foot Jane Curtz Afghanistan An Afghan Child in a War Torn Land Deborah Ellis Afghanistan The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest. Afghanistan Parvana’s Journey Deborah Ellis Sequel to: The breadwinner. With Kabul in ruins from the Taliban's control, Parvana dresses as a boy and sets out to leave Afghanistan in search of her family. Afghanistan Women of the Afghan War Pakistan Shabanu: Daughter of Suzanne Fisher the Wind Staples Pakistan Haveli Suzanne Fisher Staples India The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling Deborah Ellis A biography of the zoologist focusing on her work with the chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania. When the plane flying Chris and his father crashes on the Serengeti Plain, Chris sets out to find help and finds that his journey is paralleled by that of an aging lion. During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each other, as they make the dangerous journey out of Ethiopia. After being kidnapped and brought to the emperor's palace in Gondar, Ethiopia, twelveyear-old Saba discovers that she and her brother are part of the emperor's desperate attempt to consolidate political power in the mid-1840's. Contains a collection of true stories about women caught up in the Afghan war, their personal accounts of daily life living in a society controlled by the Taliban, and the cruel conditions women and girls had to endure under a male-dominated system. Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. Sequel to : Shabanu, daughter of the wind. 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 his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. Presents Rudyard Kipling's classic stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, and the animals in his world, including the mongoose Rikki in "Rikki-tikki-tavi" and the crocodile in a reflective mood in "The Undertakers." India Kim Rudyard Kipling Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up in British India and becomes involved in the British Secret Service. India Rama: A Legend Jamake Highwater Based on Valmiki's Ramayana. An allegory of the ancient Indian epic story about prince Rama. India The Adventures of Rama Joseph Gaer India India India Demons, Gods & Holy Men from Indian Myths and Legends The ElephantHeaded God and Other Hindu Tales Shiva’s Fire Shahrukh Husain A collection of myths and traditional tales from the ancient civilizations of the Hindus and other peoples in or originating in India. Myths and traditional tales from the ancient civilizations of the Hindus and other peoples in or originating in India. Debjani Chatterjee A collection of Hindu myths featuring gods and goddesses, kings and queens, heroes and beggars, angelic beings and demons. Suzanne Fisher Staples In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art. India Under the Persimmon Suzanne Fisher Tree Staples A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to located their missing loved ones after the war ends. Japan The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan. Japan Japan Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler The Demon in the Teahouse Hoobler In Darkness, Death Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler Sequel to: The ghost in the Tokaido Inn. In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha. Sequel to: The demon in the teahouse. In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai. Japan So Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins 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. Japan The Master Puppeteer Katherine Paterson A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives. Japan Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees Lensey Namioka "A Zenta and Matsuzo mystery."--Cover. In Japan during the last quarter of the 16th century, two unemployed samurai attempt to discover who is mutilating the cherry trees in the valley of Lord Ohmori. Japan The Day of the Bomb Karl Bruckner, translated Japan Shizuko’s Daughter Kyoko Mori After Yuki's mother commits suicide, the 12-year-old girl must live with her distant father and his resentful new wife. Cut off from her mother's family, Yuki learns to rely on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. Eric A. Kimmel Seven short stories about samurai warriors, their way of life, courage, wit, and foolishness. Lensey Namioka During a warlord's drive to unify Japan, two unemployed samurai become bodyguards to a group of foreigners being harassed by the warlord's enemies. Japan Japan Sword of the Samurai: Adventure Stories from Japan The Samurai and the Long-Nosed Devils Japan The Warrior and the Wise Man David Wisniewski An emperor gives his twin sons, one a warrior and one a wise man, a quest to see which will rule his kingdom. Japan The Big Wave Pearl S. Buck When his family and village are swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the everpresent dangers from the sea and volcano. Japan A Jar of Dreams Yoshiko Uchida Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice. Japan Kim/Kimi Hadley Irwin Despite a warm relationship with her mother, stepfather, and half brother, sixteen-year-old Kim feels the need to find answers about the Japanese American father she never knew. Japan The Eternal Spring of Sheila Garrigue Mr. Ito Japan Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows Barry Denenberg Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Japan Japan Candle in the Wind The Best Bad Thing Japanese-American teen Harris Mizuno is shot by a man who believes him to be an intruder and the entire town erupts in bigotry, and vigilantism. It takes his sister, Terri, with the Maureen C. Wartski help of her Japanese grandmother, to make everyone realize that hate is the real killer. Yoshiko Uchida Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams." At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Japan The Bracelet Yoshiko Uchida Emi, a Japanese-American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship. Japan The Dancing Kettle and Other Japanese Tales Yoshiko Uchida Adaptations of fourteen traditional Japanese folk tales. The Happiest Ending Yoshiko Uchida 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. Japan The Invisible Thread Yoshiko Uchida Children's author Uchida describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II. Japan A Jar of Dreams Yoshiko Uchida Eleven-year-old Rinko grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the Depression, a time of great prejudice. Japan Japan Journey Home Yoshiko Uchida Japan Journey to Topaz Yoshiko Uchida Japan Picture Bride Yoshiko Uchida Japan Japan The Sea of Gold and Other Tales from Japan The Wise Old Woman 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. After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah. Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917 to marry Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper. Together they build a business and home, raise a daughter, and find tragedy when sent to a detention camp during World War II. Yoshiko Uchida Twelve stories representing a variety of Japanese folklore. Yoshiko Uchida An old woman demonstrates the value of her age when she solves a warlord's three riddles and saves her village from destruction. Japan Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne W. and James D. Houston Biography of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston relating her experiences of living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II and how it has influenced her life. Japan Legacies of the Sword Karl Friday and Seki Humitake Explores the historical, philosophical, and pedagogical dynamics of the Kashima-Shinryu school of traditional martial arts, providing insight into the Japanese warrior culture. Japan Secret of the Samurai Sword Phyllis Whitney On a visit to Japan, Celia looks out her window to see the ghost of an ancient samurai soldier wandering in the dark. Japan My Brother, My Sister, and I Yoko K. Watkins Japan The Sign of the Chrysanthemum Katherine Paterson Japan Den of the White Fox Lensey Namioka Japan An Ocean Apart, A World Away Lensey Namioka Japan One Bird Kyoko Mori Tibet Daughter of the Mountains Louise Rankin Tibet Tales from the Roof of the World Gioia Timpanelli and Elizabeth Lockwood China The Serpent’s Children Laurence Yep China Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom Katherine Paterson China Homesick, My Own Story Jean Fritz Sequel to: So far from the bamboo grove. Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder. A teen-ager comes to know himself through contacts with social ills and political unrest while searching for his father in Japan's capital, centuries ago. In medieval Japan, two out-of-work samurai warriors must use their fighting skills when they join a group of local boys, led by the mysterious White Fox, in resistance to a cruel occupying force. Yanyan, having always wanted to be a doctor, makes a difficult decision to leave the exciting Liang Baoshu behind in China and moves to New York to attend medical school. After her mother abandons her, fifteen-year-old Megumi tries to understand her father's need for his mistress while dealing with her own aching isolation. Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa. A collection of traditional tales from the remote mountainous country of Tibet. Sequel: Mountain light. In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother. Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society, partly based on Christian principles and dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu government. The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's. Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home. China The House of Sixty Fathers Meindert DeJong China The Moon Lady Amy Tan China Ribbons Laurence Yep A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family. China The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan In 1949 four Chinese women began meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong. They called their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Forty years later they look back and remember. China The Good Earth Pearl Buck Wang Lung, a peasant in China in the 1920s, becomes a prosperous landowner with the help of his humble wife, O'Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to duty, land, and survival. China Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyui Choi China China Lady of Ch’iao Kuo Serpent’s Children Laurence Yep Laurence Yep China Spring Pearl China Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom Katherine Paterson China Ties That Bind, Ties that Break Lensey Namioka Laurence Yep Nai-nai tells her granddaughters the story of her outing, as a seven-year-old girl in China, to see the Moon Lady and be granted a secret wish. A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war. Sequel: Mountain light. In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother. Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year old orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China. Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to the Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society, partly based on Christian principles and dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu government. Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound. Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs Lensey Namioka Cambodia The Clay Marble Ming Fong Ho (set) Cambodia Children of the River Linda Crew Korea A Single Shard Linda Sue Park Korea When My Name was Keoko Linda Sue Park 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. Vietnam A Boat to Nowhere Maureen Crane Wartski Fleeing from agents of the new communist government in Vietnam, an old man and three children begin an endless and seemingly hopeless struggle for survival as boat people. Vietnam Fallen Angels (Vietnam War) Walter Dean Myers 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. Vietnam Goodbye Vietnam Gloria Whelan 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. Vietnam Tis the Season (Vietnam War) Zack Emerson While on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam, the squad finds an Army nurse wandering hurt and frightened in the jungle. Vietnam Stand Down (Vietnam War) Zack Emerson Vietnam Sky Legends of Vietnam Why the rooster crows at sunrise -- How the Moon became ivory -- The Moon fairy -Lynette Dyer Vuong The miraculous banyan tree -- The weaver fairy and the buffalo boy -- The seven weavers -The man in the Moon (song) Vietnam The Land I Lost Quang Huynh A collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam. Vietnam Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam Sherry Garland An illustrated collection of Vietnamese folktales with explanatory notes following each story. China Third Sister and her siblings try to help Eldest Brother, the most talented musician in the Yang family, find work to pay for a new violin. In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family. Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-yearold Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Echo Company was on stand down in Chu Lai. They still had plenty of problems, and they couldn't get away from the war. Then the party started. Vietnam The Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales Lyette Dyer Vuong A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess." As man builds and settles on land formerly occupied by wildlife, an old fisherman's dog and all the other animals of the territory carry on nocturnal activities to make their homes safer. Australia Moon-dark Patricia Wrightson Australia Angel’s Gate Gary Crew Australia Walkabout James Marshall Polynesia Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl Polynesia Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry Polynesia The Shark Callers Arabia India Eric Campbell (Papua New Guinea) Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father. Mary and Peter are stranded in the wilderness of the Australian outback. They meet an Aboriginal youth on a walking journey and he helps them to undergo a journey of their own in order to survive. The record of a 4,300 nautical mile journey across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. The Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights Born Confused Tanuja Desai Hidier Dimple Lala is torn between the traditional life of her Indian parents and the desirable life of an adolescent young woman in the USA. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Afghanistan Zoya's Story: John Follain; Rita Cristofari An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom Zoya committed her life to the cause of women's rights in Afghanistan at 14, when both parents were assassinated for political activities. Her life story is provocative; Zoya's position is predictably anti-Taliban, yet subtly anti-American. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Israel/Palestine Samir and Yonatan Daniella Carmi Samir, a Palestinian boy, finds himself in a Jewish hospital in Israel waiting for an American doctor to operate on his shattered knee. In this sharply observed novel Samir gets to know the four other children in the ward, and budding friendship alters his political views. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Cuba The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist India/Pakistan A Moment Comes Australia The Golden Day Margarita Engle Engle’s historical novel in verse is a fictionalized biography of the nineteenth-century Cuban abolitionist poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula. 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults Jennifer Bradbury Lives collide when three teens from different backgrounds become ensnared in the turmoil of the India-Pakistan partition. 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults Ursula Dubosarsky Australian schoolgirls accompany their teacher on an outing to the local gardens. But when they return to the school without her, they find their lives have changed forever. 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults Kenya Promise the Night. Michaela MacColl Famous aviator, Beryl Markham’s childhood in Kenya with racehorses, lions, and the Nandi neighbors at a time when white women were expected to be ladies and Beryl is anything but. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Cambodia Never Fall Down Palistine Where the Streets had a Name. Abel-Fattah, Randa. Patricia McCormick Arn is taken from his home by the Khmer Rouge and forced to become a child soldier. What will he do to survive? 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Hayaat believes soil from her ancestral homeland may save her dying grandmother. But, retrieving it requires a dangerous, illegal crossing of the wall dividing Jerusalem’s West Bank. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Bondoux, Anne-Laure. A Time of Miracles. Blaise, an orphaned teen, recounts his attempts to escape the war torn Caucasus region and gain French citizenship. In moments of despair, storytelling revives his passion for survival. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Brooks, Martha. Queen of Hearts. Marie-Claire, a young Canadian woman, along with several of her family members, are diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanatorium in 1940. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Cooper, Michelle. The FitzOsbornes in Exile. As Hitler begins his conquest of Europe, the FitzOsborne royals try to save their home while caught up in London’s social scene. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Cross, Gillian. Where I Belong. Khadj leaves Somalia for England to live with Abdi’s family, in order to work and send money home to her family. But her modeling job for a famous designer leads to danger. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Edwardson, Debby Dahl. My Name is Not Easy. Alaskan Inupiaq young people are forced to forsake their families and culture for a harsh parochial boarding school hundreds of miles away. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Ostlere, Cathy. Karma, A Novel in Verse. While taking her mother’s ashes back to India, Maya gets separated from her father during an uprising and must find her way back to him. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Perera, Anna. Guantanamo Boy. While visiting family in Pakistan, 15-year-old Khalid Ahmed is captured, imprisoned and tortured at Guantanamo Bay prison after being falsely accused of being a terrorist. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Reedy, Trent. Words in the Dust. Zulaikha, an Afghani girl with a cleft palate, is ridiculed for her looks, but her pre-determined future could change with the arrival of American military. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray. In 1941, Lina and her family are taken from their home in Lithuania and sent to Siberia where, despite horrific conditions, Lina maintains hope that she will survive. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Sharenow, Robert. The Berlin Boxing Club. In 1934, Karl’s Jewishness has never been an issue, but suddenly it is. Offered the opportunity to train under a champion, Karl grabs it and boxing becomes his refuge. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Silvey, Craig. Jasper Jones. Charlie’s life in an Australian small town is turned upside down when Jasper Jones knocks on his bedroom window late one night and asks for help disposing of a body. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Thompson, Holly. Orchards. After a classmate’s unexpected death, bi-racial Kana Goldberg is sent to her family’s farm in Japan to reflect on her participation in events that led up to the suicide. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Williams, Michael. Now is the Time for Running. As Zimbabwe disintegrates under its new leadership, Deo’s village is brutally attacked and he can only save Innocent, his brother who is mentally delayed. 2013 Best Fiction for Young Adults Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water. When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. Hartnett, Sonya. The Midnight Zoo. Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free. Paterson, Katherine. The Day of the Pelican. In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
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