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Author: Walter Mosley
Origin: African American
Theme: History, Slavery, Freedom
Grades: 7-12

Walter Mosley ventures into the world of young adult fiction with this historical novel of a young slave bo...

ACCIDENTAL LOVE
Author: Gary Soto
Origin: Mexican American
Theme: Relationships, Life Changes
Grades: 6-9

Marisa unexpectedly falls in love with a "nerdy" type boy. Marisa works to change her life by moving to an...

ACROSS THE GREAT RIVER
Author: Irene Beltran Hernandez
Origin: Mexico
Theme: Immigration
Grades: 7-12

An exciting tale of a young girl maturing and taking on the leadership role in her family while her parents...

AMERICA STREET
Author: Edited by Anne Mazer
Origin: USA
Theme: Diversity
Grades: 7-12

A multicultural anthology of stories. Fourteen stories by American authors from diverse racial and cultura...

ANY SMALL GOODNESS-A NOVEL OF THE BARRIO
Author: Tony Johnston
Origin: East Los Angeles;Barrio
Theme: Family, Life in the Barrio
Grades: 4-8

Growing up in the Bario of East Los Angeles, young Arturo Rodrigues struggles to make sense of world around...

APLAUSO! HISPANIC CHILDREN'S THEATRE
Author: Edited by Joe Rosenberg
Origin: Hispanic-American
Theme: Drama
Grades: 4-12

A collection of plays for children and young adults written in Spanish and English by Hispanic American aut...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY DEAD BROTHER
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Origin: African American; Harlem
Theme: Friendship, Drive-bys, Gangs
Grades: 6-12

Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of his blood brother, Rise, and his comic strip "Spo...

BASEBALL IN APRIL AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Gary Soto
Origin: Mexican-American
Theme: Growing up
Grades: 5-9

In this collection of engaging stories, readers will identity with the tough and vulnerable Latino kids wh...

BECOMING NAOMI LEÓN
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Origin: Mexican American
Theme: Family, Family Problems
Grades: 4-8

When Naomi's absent mother comes to California to claim her, she, her brother, and great grandmother run to...

BEFORE WE WERE FREE
ANTES DE SER LIBRES
Author: Julia Alvarez
Origin: Dominican Republic
Theme: Oppression
Grades: 6-12

Takes place in 1960 when the Trujillo regime is in power in the Dominican Republic. This period of time is ...

BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Origin: Haitian Americans
Theme: Emigration, Immigration
Grades: 6-8

A first person narrative written in diary format tells the story of Celiane writing in her notebook describ...

BINDI BABES
Author: Narinder Dhami
Origin: England; India
Theme: Family, Teenagers
Grades: 7-9

Three sisters,known as the Bindi Babes, whose mother passed away, are spoiled by their father until their "...

BLACK STORM COMIN'
Author: Diane Lee Wilson
Origin: American West
Theme: Slavery, Frontier Life, Pony Express
Grades: 6-8

Twelve-year-old Colton, son of a black mother and a white father, takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860...

BORDER CROSSING
Author: Maria Colleen Cruz
Origin: Los Angeles; Mexico
Theme: Identity, Family Life
Grades: 6-8

Twelve-year-old Cesi knows all about her mother's Cherokee and Irish family but little about her father's M...

BOYS OF SAN JOAQUIN, THE
Author: D. James Smith
Origin: California
Theme: Family Life, Theft, Disabilities
Grades: 6-8

In a small California town in 1951, Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money mis...

BREAKING THROUGH
SENDEROS FRONTERIZOS
Author: FRANISCO JIMENEZ
Origin: CALIFORNIA
Theme: Migrant workers, Illegal Immigration
Grades: 5-8

Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fi...

BROTHER HOOD
Author: Janet McDonald
Origin: African American
Theme: Gifted Children, Boarding School, Harlem
Grades: 7-12

Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive boarding school, straddles t...

CAGED EAGLES
Author: Eric Walters
Origin: Native Canadian; Japanese-Canadians
Theme: Friendship, Japanese Interment, Racism, Injustice
Grades: 6-8

Caged Eagles is a sequel to War of the Eagles. This story focuses on the Japanese internment during World ...

CANTO FAMILIAR
Author: Gary Soto
Origin: Mexican-American
Theme: Poetry, Growing up
Grades: 5-8

Twenty five poems about the pleasures and woes that Mexican-American children experience growing up.

CHINA'S SON
Author: Da Chen
Origin: China
Theme: Cultural Revolution, Personal Narrative
Grades: 6-12

Da Chen was born in China in 1962. The grandson of a landlord, he found that he and his family were outcas...

CHU JU'S HOUSE
Author: Gloria Whelan
Origin: China
Theme: History, Sex Role, Runaways
Grades: 6-12

In order to save her baby sister, fourteen-year-old, Chu Ju runs away from home. She survives by working on...

CINNAMON GIRL-LETTERS FOUND INSIDE A CEREAL BOX
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Origin: Puerto Rican American
Theme: September 11, Terrorist Attacks
Grades: 6-12

Yolanda, a Puerto Rican girl tries to come to terms with her painful past as she waits to see if her uncle ...

CIRCUIT, THE: STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF A MIGRANT CHILD
CAJAS DE CARTÓN: RELATOS DE LA VIDA PEREGRINA DE UN NIÑO CAMPESINO
Author: Francisco Jimenez
Origin: Mexico and California
Theme: Migrant Workers
Grades: 7-12

A collection of short stories that chronicles the life of a migrant child. This book was awarded the 1997 A...

COBWEBS
Author: Karen Romano Young
Origin: New York City
Theme: Spiders, Multi-Ethnic
Grades: 7-12

Sixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in very different Brooklyn households...

COLIBRÍ
Author: Ann Cameron
Origin: Guatemala
Theme: Kidnapping, Mayas
Grades: 6-8

Kidnapped when she was young by an unscrupulous man, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, ...

COLOR OF FIRE,THE
Author: Ann Rinaldi
Origin: United States; African American
Theme: Slavery, History, Racial Tension
Grades: 6-9

A relative unknown period in New York history is narrated by Phoebe, a young slave. The year is 1741, Engl...

COLOR OF MY WORDS, THE
Author: Lynn Joseph
Origin: Domincan Republic
Theme: Family Life
Grades: 6-8

Ana Rosa is a blossoming young writer growing up in the Domincan Republic, a country where words are feared...

COME JUNETEENTH
Author: Ann Rinaldi
Origin: USA
Theme: Slavery: Freedom
Grades: 5-7

Ann Rinaldi brings history to life in this vividly showcased novel. Two years after Lincoln issued his Eman...

COOL SALSA
Author: Edited by Lori M. Carlson
Origin: USA
Theme: Growing up
Grades: 7-12

An anthology of bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the U.S.

CORN GROWS RIPE, THE
Author: Dorothy Rhoads
Origin: Mayan
Theme: Survival
Grades: 5-8

A contemporary story about the Mayan culture. A young boy has to take responsibility for the corn crop to ...