Multicultural Fiction
American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in American popular culture.
Blood Relations by Chris Lynch
Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a somewhat enigmatic Spanish-speaking loner at school.
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
Brother Hood by Janet McDonald
Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive private boarding school, straddles two cultures as he returns home for occasional visits to see his family and "gangsta crew" in Harlem, New York.
Call Me Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
The Crossing by Gary Paulsen
Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing up in the Arab World Today by Elsa Martin
A collection of five stories portraying Arab life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and Iraq today.
First Crossing: Stories about Teen Immigrants edited by Donald R. Gallo
Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs.
Help Wanted: Stories by Gary Soto
Ten stories portray some of the struggles and hopes of young Mexican-Americans.
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson
Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.
In the Name of God by Paula Jolin
Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur’an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family.
Lives of Our Own by Lorri Hewett
After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking about her father's past, and discovers a surprising link with one of the "popular" white girls at school.
Mismatch by Lensey Namioka
Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl.
See You Down the Road by Kim Ablon Whitney
Sixteen-year-old Bridget, member of an Irish traveler community in the United States, questions the traditions of her family's nomadic and criminal way of life and begins to wonder if she wants to continue living it.
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Where You Belong by Mary Ann McGuigan
In 1963, when thirteen-year-old Fiona runs away from home and ends up reunited with her former classmate Yolanda in an all black neighborhood of the Bronx, their interracial friendship gives rise to both comfort and controversy.
