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 |

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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. |

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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 |

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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. |

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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 |

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|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 |

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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. |

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|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 |

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|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. |

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|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. |

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|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 |

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|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 |

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|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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