Tan, Amy
|Multicultural Reading List at USCHS Library and/or USC Township Library |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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 Angelou’s personal journey to |
|Ghana in search of her African roots and identity. USCHS |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|92 COD |
|Codell, Esme Raji |
|Educating Esme: diary of a teacher’s first year. |
|Presents the diary of teacher Esmé Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school. USCHS &|
|Township Lib. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|92 Gra |
|Graves, Robert |
|Good-bye to All That |
|Autobiography of Robert Graves, who left his native England for Majorca in 1929. USCHS |
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|92 ABR |
|Gray, Bettyanne |
|Manya’s Story |
|The harrowing account of a Jewish family’s ordeal in revolutionary Russia. USCHS |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|FIC HIL |
|Hillerman, Tony |
|Listening woman |
|Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks down the murderer of an old man. USCHS & Township Lib. |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|PB FIC HOB |
|Hobbs, Will |
|Crossing the wire |
|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. 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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|92 HUR |
|Hurston, Zora Neale |
|Dust Tracks on a Road |
|The autobiography 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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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 Arabic-speaking Sephardic community in the mid-twentieth century.|
|USCHS & Township Lib. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|PB FIC McC |
|McCaughrean, Geraldine |
|The Kite Rider |
|Set in 13th 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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 New York, to his eventual success as a teacher and writer. USCHS & Township Lib. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|FIC SOT |
|Soto, Gary |
|Jesse |
|Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them escape their heritage of tedious physical labor. USCHS |
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|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 |
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|FIC STA |
|Staples, Suzanne Fisher |
|Shabanu : Daughter of the Wind |
|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. USCHS & Township Lib. |
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|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 |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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 its appeal, merits,and the contradictions which |
|motivated the author to leave the group. USCHS |
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|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 |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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. |
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|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 |
| |
|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. |
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|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 |
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|**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. |
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|Oct. 2010 |
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