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362.19 BUS
Bush, Jenna. Ana's story : a journey of hope. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2007.
Jenna Bush presents a nonfiction account of Ana, a young Latin American mother, who
shared with Bush the loss of her parents to AIDS, abuse from her grandmother and aunt,
and of her own battle with AIDS.
371.8 MOR
Thomson, Sarah L. Three cups of tea. Young readers ed. New York : Puffin Books, 2009.
Adapts for young readers Greg Mortenson's book in which he recounts the experiences he
had while trying to help impoverished villages in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya build
schools for their children.
915.6 COH
Cohen, Jared. Children of Jihad : a young American's travels among the youth of the
Middle East. New York : Gotham Books, [2008], c2007.
Destination Iran -- Removing the shackles -- Democracy after dark -- Nuclear pride -"Death to America" -- The calm before the storm -- The all night "party of God" -Struggling for dignity -- Babies in the Ba'ath Party -- The road to Mesopotamia -- Iraqis
who like us -- Waking up in the insurgency. Presents a first-hand account of youth culture
in various countries of the Middle East including interviews with Hezbollah members,
Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon, and Bedouin camps.
940.5 HOU
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki. Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American
experience during and after the World War II internment. New York : Bantam
Books, ́1981̂, c1973.
True story of one Japanese American family and their attempt to survive the indignities of
forces detention.
956.7 RIV
Riverbend. Baghdad burning : girl blog from Iraq. 1st Feminist Press ed. New York :
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005.
Collects the August 2003-September 2004 Web log--or "blog"--entries of a young Iraqi
woman, who presents an eyewitness civilian account of the U.S.-Iraq War's impact on her
country, discussing her family life, the war's effect on women's lives, and such events as the
Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
956.7 RIV
Riverbend. Baghdad burning II : more girl blog from Iraq. 1st Feminist Press ed. New
York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2006.
August through December 2003 -- January through March 2004 -- April through
September 2004.
958.1 SEI
Seierstad, Åsne. The bookseller of Kabul. New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown,
[2004?], c2003.
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Asne Seierstand tells of her experiences while staying with a bookseller named Sultan Khan
and his family in Afghanistan just after the fall of the Taliban, describing what it was like
for families in the country to adjust to a new way of life and a new government.
92 ALI
Ali, Rubina. Slumgirl dreaming : Rubina's journey to the stars. 1st American ed. New
York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Nine-year-old Rubina Ali recounts her childhood in the slums of Mumbai and her rise to
stardom after being chosen to act in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire.".
FIC ALV
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia girls lost their accents. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C : Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill, 1991.
The story of the Garcia families adjustment to life in the United States.
FIC ANA
Na, An. The fold. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.
Joyce Park, a high school junior who is always compared to her beautiful and talented older
sister, Helen, wants to attract the attention of John Ford Kang, and wrestles with whether
to get plastic surgery as a gift from her aunt.
FIC CIS
Cisneros, Sandra. The house on Mango Street. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York :
Vintage Contemporaries, 1991, c1984.
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.
FIC DIA
Díaz, Junot. La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao. 1. ed. Vintage Español. Nueva
York : Vintage Español, 2008.
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams
of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is
thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
FIC DOW
Dowd, Siobhan. Bog child. 1st American ed. New York : David Fickling Books, 2008.
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his
upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a
courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
FIC HOB
Hobbs, Will. Crossing the wire. 1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 2007,
c2006.
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona
border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
FIC JOH
Kincaid, Jamaica. Annie John. 1st Noonday pbk. ed. New York : Noonday Press, 1997.
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A fictional account of a young girl's coming of age in Antigua, from a doted upon childhood
to an adolescence fraught with events and alliances leading her away from mutual
complacent acceptance.
FIC LAT
Latifa. My forbidden face : growing up under the Taliban : a young woman's story. 1st ed.
New York : Talk Miramax Books, c2001.
Latifa, a young woman who was sixteen in 1996 when the Taliban came to power in
Afghanistan, tells about her family's experiences under the repressive regime, focusing on
the lives of women and girls who were abruptly denied the freedom to work, go to school, or
even leave their homes without a male escort.
FIC MAR
Markandaya, Kamala, Nectar in a sieve : a novel. New York : Signet, c1995.
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.
FIC MCM
McMurtry, Larry. Streets of Laredo : a novel. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1993.
Captain Call is hired to track down and kill the young Mexican bandit Joey Garza.
FIC MEA
Mead, Alice. Dawn and dusk. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
As thirteen-year-old Azad tries desperately to cling to the life he has known, the political
situation in Iran during the war with Iraq finally forces his family to flee their home and
seek safety elsewhere.
FIC MUN
Munro, Alice. Too much happiness : stories. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Dimensions -- Fiction -- Wenlock Edge -- Deep-holes -- Free radicals -- Face -- Some women
-- Child's play -- Wood -- Too much happiness. A collection of ten short fiction stories of
men and women whose lives are changed in unpredictable ways.
FIC NAN
Nanji, Shenaaz. Child of dandelions. 1st ed. Asheville, N.C. : Front Street, c2008.
In Uganda in 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine and her family, wealthy citizens of Indian
descent, try to preserve their normal life during the ninety days allowed by President Idi
Amin for all foreign Indians to leave the country, while soldiers and others terrorize them
and people disappear.
FIC PEN
Peña, Matt de la. Mexican whiteboy. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.
Danny, who is tall and skinny but has a talent for pitching a fastball, cannot seem to fit in at
school in San Diego, where his Mexican and white heritage causes people to judge him
before he even speaks.
FIC RUL
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Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo. 1st University of Texas Press ed. Austin : University of Texas
Press, 2002.
Translation of a Spanish novel in which Juan Preciado, honoring a promise made to his
dying mother, travels to the town of Comala, Mexico in search of his father and encounters
only the ghosts of the past.
FIC SAR
Saramago, José. Blindness. Orlando : Harcourt, [2008], c2006, 1999.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" whose victims are confined to a vacant
mental hospital, while a single eyewitness to the nightmare guides seven oddly assorted
strangers through the barren urban landscape.
FIC SWA
Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog millionaire : a novel. Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York : Scribner,
2008, c2005.
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as
authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a
contest.