Multicultural Reading List at USCHS Library And/Or USC Township Library

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Multicultural Reading List at USCHS Library and/or USC Township Library

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.

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

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
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.

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

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
PB FIC BAG
Bagdasarian, Adam
FORGOTTEN FIRE
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915. USCHS.

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
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
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.

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.

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
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
92 Gra
Graves, Robert
Good-bye to All That
Autobiography of Robert Graves, who left his native England for Majorca in 1929. USCHS
92 ABR
Gray, Bettyanne
Manya’s Story
The harrowing account of a Jewish family’s ordeal in revolutionary Russia. USCHS
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
FIC HIL
Hillerman, Tony
Listening woman
Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks down the murderer of an old man. USCHS & Township Lib.
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.
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.
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
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.

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
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
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.
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

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

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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
FIC MAR

Marchetta, Melina