Multicultural -- YA

  • Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Asian American)
  • Amy Tan--Bonesetter's Daughter, Joy Luck Club, Kitchen God's Wife (Chinese American)
  • An Na. A Step From Heaven (China)
  • Bapsi Sidhwa's "Cracking India" is a one about the partition of India and Pakistan from the point of view of a 9-yr. old girl (presumably the author).  NOT a children's book but would be for high school.
  • Barbara Kingsolver.  The Poisonwood Bible (Africa)
  • Deborah Ellis. The Breadwinner (Afghanistan)
  • Denise Chavez, Face of an Angel (Hispanic)
  • Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear (Native American)
  • Evelyn Coleman. Born in Sin (African Americans)
  • Gish Jen, Typical American (Asian American)
  • Gloria Whelan  Homeless Bird (India)
  • Isabel Allende (Hispanic)
  • Isabel Allende. Daughter of Fortune. (Chile and California, )
  • Jacqueline Wilson (African American)
  • Jodi Picoult.  Plain Truth  (Amish)
  • Judith Ortiz Cofer, An Island Like You (Hispanic)
  • Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Hispanic)
  • Julia Alverez.  In the time of the butterflies (Dominican Republic)
  • Laura Esquivel. Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
  • Lensey Namioka. April and the Dragon Lady. - Browndeer Press, San Diego : c1994. (Chinese American)
  • Louise Erdrich, Antelope Wife (Native American)
  • Maxine Hong Kingston--Woman Warrior (Chinese American)
  • Maya Angelou's memoirs.
  • Michael Dorris -  A Yellow Raft on Blue Water (Native American, and mixed race - USA)
  • Nien Cheng. Life and Death in Shanghai (China - Cultural Revolution)
  • Oswald  Wynd. The Ginger Tree - (China and Japan)
  • Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront (Hispanic)
  • Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street  (Hispanic)
  • Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Hispanic)
  • Suzanne Fisher Staples Shabanu and/or Haveli (Pakistan)
  • Veronica Chambers.  Mama's girl.  (Panamanian)
  • Wally Lamb.  She's Come Undone (WASP - USA)
  • Zlata's Diary (Bosnia)


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