Multicultural Reading List at USCHS Library and/or USC Township Library
PB FIC ABD
Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Does my head look big in this?
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. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 AKB
Akbar, Said Hyder and Burton, Susan.
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story.
The author describes his experiences as he traveled to Afghanistan with his father, who was the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai and then became the governor of
Kunar. USCHS
92 ALW
Al-Windawi, Thura
Thura’s Diary: My Life in wartime Iraq
A diary kept by a 19-year-old woman on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. USCHS
FIC ANA
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Bless me, Ultima
Presents selections from the story of a young Mexican American's life in a small New
Mexican community during World War II. Includes a short biography of the author.
USCHS & Township Lib.
92 ANG
Angelou, Maya
All God’s Children Have Traveling Shoes
Autobiographical sequel to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in
My Name, following Maya Angel ou’s personal journey to Ghana in search of her
African roots and identity. USCHS
92 ANG
Angelou, Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Poetically told, this autobiography of a black girl from Arkansas captures life in the deeply segregated South. USCHS

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PB FIC BAG
Bagdasarian, Adam
FORGOTTEN FIRE
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in
1915. USCHS.
920 WE
Boas, Jacob
We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust
The diaries of David Rubmowicz, Yitzak Rudashevski, Moshe Flinker, Eva Heyman, and Ann Frank, all Jewish teenagers in Europe who died in the concentration camps of WWII. USCHS
FIC BRU
Bruchac, Joseph
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become
Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. USCHS
FIC BUC
Buck, Pearl S.
The Good Earth .
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC BUD
Budhos, Marina
Ask Me No Questions
Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York
City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 WAL
Bundles, A’Lelia
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam CJ Walker
The inspiring biography of the author’s great-great grandmother who became a successful black businesswoman and philanthropist. USCHS
PB FIC CHA
Chambers, Aidan
Postcards from No Man’s Land
Seventeen is an age of self-discovery, and Jacob has gone to Amsterdam to explore his life. His quest strangely parallels discoveries about his grandfather’s life there during World War II. USCHS & Township Lib.

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PB FIC CHE
Chevalier, Tracy
Girl With a Pearl Earring .
Sixteen year-old Griet is hired as a maid in the household of Delft painter Johannes
Vermeer, where she becomes an assistant and muse to the famous artist. USCHS &
Township Lib.
PB FIC CIS
Cisneros, Sandra
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento : a novel
Celaya "Lala" Reyes, traveling from Chicago to Mexico City each summer, draws together stories of her Mexican-American family of shawl-makers, including her papa and Awful Grandmother. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC CIS
Cisneros, Sandra
The House on Mango Street
A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 COD
Codell, Esme Raji
Educating Esme: diary of a teacher’s first year.
Presents the diary of tea cher Esmé Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC COL
Coleman, Evelyn
Born in Sin
Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen year old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor. USCHS
FIC CRA
Craig, Colleen
Afrika.
Thirteen-year-old Kim learns the truth about her father and her mother's homeland after visiting South Africa, where she meets relatives and other children her age and witnesses the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings. USCHS
FIC DIS
Disher, Garry
The Divine Wind
On the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart. USCHS & Township Lib.

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PB Fic For
Forster, E. M.
A Passage to India
A classic account of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century revealing the menace lurking just under the surface of ordinary misunderstanding.
USCHS & Township Lib.
92 WEL
Fradin, Dennis B.
Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century activist Ida B. Wells, focusing on her crusade against the practice of lynching, and discussing her role in the founding of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the campaign for women's voting rights. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 Fra
Frank, Anne
The Diary of A Young Girl: Anne Frank
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describing the trials of daily life, and her innermost thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the
Nazi occupation of Holland. USCHS & USC Township Lib.
92 Fra
Franklin, Miles
My Brilliant Career
Written when she was 16 years old, this is the autobiography of Stella Maria Miles
Franklin, who was raised in the mountainous New South Wales, Australia, and became an active feminist and author. USCHS
92 WIN
Garson, Helen S.
Oprah Winfrey: A Biography
Presents a biography of television celebrity Oprah Winfrey, discussing her early life, her success as host of the "Oprah Winfrey Show," and her personal and public struggles. USCHS
PB FIC GIB
Gibbons, Kaye
Ellen Foster
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children. USCHS

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FIC GOL
Golden, Arthur
Memoirs of a Geisha : a Novel
Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slave as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.
USCHS & Township Lib.
92 Gra
Graves, Robert
Good-bye to All That
Autobiography of Robert Graves, who left his native England for Majorca in 1929.
USCHS
92 ABR
Gray, Bettyanne
Manya’s Story
The harrowing account of a Jewish family’s ordeal in revolutionary Russia. USCHS
PB FIC LER
Harper, Frances E.W.
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Portrays the complex problems facing black Americans in the post-Civil War era.
USCHS
92 Har
Hart, Elva Trevino
The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
This honest and moving memoir follows a migrant child and her family as they travel from their home in New Mexico to the farm fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin in search of work. USCHS
92 MOR
Haskins, James
Toni Morrison: Telling a Tale Untold
Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African
American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. USCHS
FIC DES
Hidier Desai, Tanuja
Born Confused
Seventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not
Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes. USCHS & Township Lib.

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FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
The blessing way.
Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police and anthropologist Bergen McKee follow the horrifying trail of murder left by the Wolf-Witch. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
The ghostway
Old Joseph Joe sees it all at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. Two strangers spill blood, one is killed and the other drives off into the Big Reservation. Tribal policeman
Jim Chee sets off after the killer. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
Listening woman
Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks down the murderer of an old man.
USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
A Thief of Time
A noted anthropologist arrives at an Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots and is terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later she is reported missing.
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn unearths a bizarre and mystifying series of murders.
USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
The Wailing Wind
Sergeant Jim Chee lures retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn out of retirement when Officer
Bernadette Manuelito discovers the corpse of a white man who apparently had ties to the old Golden Calf Mine homicide--a case with loose ends that has been troubling
Leaphorn for years. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC HOB
Hobbs, Will
Crossing the wire
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the
A rizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central
Mexico. USCHS

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PB FIC HOS
Hosseini, Khaled
The Kite Runner
Years after he flees Afghanistan, Amir, now an American citizen, returns to his native land and attempts to atone for the betrayal of his best friend before he fled Kabul and the Taliban. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC HOS
Hosseini, Khaled
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A story of the unlikely friendship between two women against the backdrop of the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan. USCHS
PB FIC HOU
Houston, Julian
New Boy
As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black man is witness to the persecution of another student with bad acne. USCHS
92 HUR
Hurston, Zora Neale
Dust Tracks on a Road
The autobiograph y of Zora Neale Hurston’s rise from childhood poverty in the rural
South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem
Renaissance. USCHS & USC Township Lib.
92 JAC
Jackson, Livia Bitton
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
An unforgettable memoir of Elli Friedmann as the Nazis invade Hungary in March
1944, and she and her family are sent to a concentration camp. USCHS
92 JAC
Jacobs, Mike
Holocaust Survivor
Now the founder of the Dallas Holocaust Memorial Center, Mike Jacobs relates a message of the power of hope as one who survived five years’ confinement in Polish ghettos and concentration camps.
USCHS
92 JAD
Jadhav, Narendra
Untouchables
Based on his father’s diaries and family stories, Jadhav Narendra powerfully relates the story of his family’s struggle for equality and justice in India. USCHS

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PB FIC JOH
Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. USCHS
92 KAP
Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette
Ten Green Bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai.
Kaplan was born in Shanghai in 1946; her parents were Jewish refugees who had fled
Nazi occupied Austria five years earlier. Within a couple years of her birth, the family migrated to Toronto. In a novelistic voice she recounts her parents' experiences, beginning with their early childhood and ending with their arrival in Canada. USCHS.
FIC KIN
Kingsolver, Barbara
The Bean Trees .
Taylor Greer leaves Kentucky and heads west to find a new life. When a baby is abandoned in her car, she learns that responsibilities and independence are not mutually exclusive in this story of family and community. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 KLU
Kluger, Ruth
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
A memoir of Ruth Kluger, who, along with her mother, saw their comfortable life in
Vienna shattered as they were deported to a concentration camp, but remarkably survived. USCHS
92 ISH
Kroeber, Theodaora
Ishi: Last of His Tribe
The incredible story of the last survivor of the Yahi tribe, and how he brought to
‘civilization’ all the courage, faith and strength of the Yahi Way of Life. USCHS
PB FIC LAS
Lasky, Kathryn
Broken Song
Fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, in 1897, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered. USCHS

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92 LAT
Latifa [pseud.]
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story
Sixteen-year-old Latifa dreamed of becoming a professional journalist until the
Taliban’s repression of women changed her life. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC LEE
Lee, Marie G.
Necessary Roughness
Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in
Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father. USCHS
92 MAH
Mah, Adeline
Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Wu Mei, also called Adeline, is the Fifth Younger Sister of her family, and the one who bears the blame for all their bad fortune. In her inspirational tale of survival in 1940’s
China, she triumphs against all odds. USCHS
PB FIC MAL
Malouf, David
Harland’s Half Acre
A haunting portrait of an Australian artist who learns how to find himself and tries to save his family through his creative endeavors. USCHS
FIC MAR
Marchetta, Melina
Looking for Alibrandi
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old
Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known. USCHS
FIC MAR
Marchetta, Melina
Saving Francesca
Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC MAR
Markandaya, Kamala
Nectar in a Sieve
Tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved. USCHS & Township Lib.

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92 MAR
Marshall, Jack
From Baghdad to Brooklyn : growing up in a Jewish-Arabic family in midcentury
America : a memoir.
Jack Marshall recounts the experiences he had growing up in New York's Arabicspeaking Sephardic community in the mid-twentieth century. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 MAT
Mathaban, Mark
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South
Africa
Recreates the author's boyhood experiences in South Africa. USCHS
92 McB
McBride, James
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity. USCHS & Township Lib
PB FIC McC
McCaughrean, Geraldine
The Kite Rider
Set in 13 th century China, The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family’s poverty by becoming a kite rider. A fast paced adventure story. USCHS
92 McC
McCourt, Frank
Angela’s Ashes
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
USCHS & Township Lib.
92 McC
McCourt, Frank
Teacher Man: a memoir
Frank McCourt talks discusses why teaching is so important and why it is undervalued. He describes his own coming of age, as a teacher, storyteller and, ultimately, a young writer. USCHS & Township Lib.
92McC
McCourt, Frank
‘Tis: a memoir
Sequel to: Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt shares the story of his life as an American immigrant, discussing his experiences from the age of nineteen when he landed in

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New York, to his eventual success as a teacher and writer. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC McC
McCunn, Ruthanne Lum
The Moon Pearl
Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju refuse to become wives or nuns as their culture expects of them, instead choosing to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC McD
McDonald, Janet
Spellbound
Sixteen year old Raven finds herself a young mother, and her plans to attend college seem hopeless. She is poor, and few in her African American neighborhood can attend college. USCHS
PB FIC MEA
Means, Florence Crannell
The Moved-Outers
After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen year old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in
California to a series of relocation camps. USCHS
FIC MOR
Mori, Kyoko
Shizuko’s Daughter
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. USCHS
PB FIC MUR
Murasaki, Lady
The Tale of Genji
An ancient Japanese novel that centers on the life and loves of the prince known as
“the shining Genji.” USCHS
FIC MYE
Monster
Steve Harmon is accused of being an accomplice to murder. He creates a screenplay of his wrenching experiences at the crime scene, in jail, and on trial. USCHS &
Township Lib.

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FIC NAM
Namioka, Lensey
An Ocean Apart, A World Away: A Novel
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. USCHS
92 PAR
Parks, Gordon
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
Suffering from poverty and racism, Gordon Parks channeled his rage and loneliness into a creative force that enabled him to triumph through writing, painting, photography and music. USCHS
FIC PAT
Paton, Alan
Cry,The Beloved Country
A Zulu country parson arrives in Johannesburg and finds that his sister has become a prostitute and his son a murderer. Available USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC PER
Perkins, Mitali
Monsoon Summer .
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner, Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 PER
Perl, Lila & Lazan, Marion Blumenthal
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
“If she could find four perfect pebbles of almost exactly the same size and shape, it meant that…Mama and Papa and she and Albert would survive [concentration camp]
Bergen-
Belsen. The four of them might even survive the Nazis’ attempt to destroy every last Jew in Europe…” USCHS
92 POD
Podhajsky, Alois
My Dancing White Horses: Autobiography of Alois Podhajsky
Alois Podhajsky’s life, inspiration for the film “Flight of the White Stallions,” describes his life as director of the oldest riding school in the world, the Riding School of Vienna.
USCHS

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92 WIN
Presnall, Judith
Oprah Winfrey
This book discusses the life of talk show host Oprah Winfrey, her early years, life in
Baltimore and Chicago, the evolution of her television show, and her charity work.
USCHS
92 SAL
Salzman, Mark
Iron & Silk
The author recounts his experiences in China, as the sole private pupil to Pan
Quingfu, China's foremost martial artist, discusses his relationships with the diverse
Chinese people he came to know. USCHS
92 SEN
Senoo, Kappa
A boy called H : a Childhood in Wartime Japan
An autobiographical novel in which Kappa Senoh describes what it was like to grow up as a nonconformist in Japan during World War II. USCHS
FIC SHE
Sheth, Kashmira
Keeping corner
In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. USCHS
92 SIE
Siegel, Aranka
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944
Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and
1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto. USCHS
92 SIM
Simon, Rachel
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
Rachel Simon’s sister, who has mental retardation, spends her days riding buses in the Pennsylvania city where she lives. When Rachel begins to accompany her sister on the bus, she learns a lot about her sister and her disability, and about her own limitations. USCHS
FIC SOT
Soto, Gary
Jesse
Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their

14 heritage of tedious physical labor. USCHS
92 SOU
Soumerai, Eve Nussbaum and Carol D. Schulz
A Voice From the Holocaust
Eve Soumerai recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Berlin, as a teenaged refugee in the United Kingdom, and later as a young adult searching for answers in postwar Germany. USCHS
FIC STA
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind
Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of presentday 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. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC STA
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Under the Persimmon Tree
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar,
Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native sweetheart Ada, only to find the land and the girl he remembers as changed by the war as he. USCHS
92 SWA
Swander, Mary
Out of this World: A Woman’s Life Among the Amish
After a severe allergic reaction had left her with the symptoms of environmental illness
(unable to tolerate the pollutants and food found in the modern world), Swander decided to change her lifestyle and move into a one-room Iowa schoolhouse on the outskirts of an Amish community. Her book is an account of that lifestyle change and the strength and self-sufficiency she developed as a result. USCHS
FIC TAN
Tan, Amy
PB FIC TAN
Tan, Amy
The Joy Luck Club
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 TAT
Tate, Sonsyrea.
Little X : growing up in the Nation of Islam.
Autobiography offering a woman's perspective on life in the Nation of Islam exploring

15 its appeal, merits,and the contradictions which motivated the author to leave the group. USCHS
92 THO
Thornton, Yvonne S., M.D.
The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
A biography by a New Jersey doctor tells how her parents, who held down multiple jobs and transmitted strong values to their six daughters , inspired them to succeed.
USCHS
PB FIC TSU
Tsukiyama, Gail
The Samurai's Garden
On the eve of World War II a young Chinese man is sent to his family's summer home in Japan to recover from tuberculosis. His own adventure becomes entwined with the lives of three people he meets there. USCHS & Township Lib.
FIC TUR
Turnbull, Ann
No Shame, No Fear
In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 UNG
Ung, Loung
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official in Phnom
Penh, tells of her experiences after her family was forced to flee from Pol Pot's Khmer
Rouge army, discussing her training as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, and telling of how her surviving siblings were eventually reunited. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC WAL
Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
Two African American sisters, one a missionary in Africa and the other a child-wife living in the South, support each other through their correspondence, beginning in the
1920s. USCHS & Township Lib.
92 WAL
Walker, Rebecca
Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Describes the personal journey of a woman born to a black mother and Jewish father, including her struggle with drugs and complicated friendships, and culminating in her endeavor to find her own identity. USCHS

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92 WIE
Wiesel, Elie
All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs
Elie Wiesel recounts his life story, telling of his childhood in the Carpathian mountains, his imprisonment at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and his career as a journalist.
USCHS
PB FIC WIE
Wiesel, Elie
A Beggar in Jerusalem
A Holocaust survivor, visiting the newly reunited city of Jerusalem in the wake of the
Six-Day War between Israel and the Arabs, is forced to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present. USCHS & Township Lib.
PB FIC WIE
Wiesel, Elie
The Fifth Son
A young American-born man, the son of Holocaust survivors, yearns to penetrate his father's present silence and his secret past. USCHS & USC Township Lib.
92 WOL
Wolf, Jacqueline
“Take Care of Josette:” A Memoir in Defense of Occupied France
A memoir of 14 year old Jacqueline and her 4 year old sister Josette, who struggled to survive in Nazi occupied France after their parents were led away by the Nazis to a concentration camp. USCHS
92 YAN
Yang, Belle
Baba : A Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders
The author retells her father's experiences growing up in China in the 1930s and
1940s. USCHS
PB FIC YEP
Yep, Laurence
Dragon’s Gate
When he accidently kills a Manchu, a Chinese boy is sent to America to join his father, an uncle, and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1867. USCHS & USC Township Lib.
92 ZIE
Ziemian, Joseph
The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square
The true story of a group of Jewish children who managed to escape from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and survive in the Aryan section of the Nazi occupied city. USCHS

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92 ZOY
Zoya, with John Follain and Rita Cristofari
Zoya’s Story: An Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom
A young Afghani woman who grew up during the wars of the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the Taliban describes the terror she has witnessed in her homeland and the work she has done to change other women's fates through the Revolutionary
Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). USCHS
**The USCHS Library and the USC Township Library are constantly updating their collections. Please be sure to check back to see if new multicultural selections have been added.
Oct. 2010