Looking In / Looking Out
Focus on Multicultural Books for Middle Schoolers
Fiction |
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| Author | Title |
| Choi, Sook Nyul | Year of Impossible Goodbyes |
| A Korean girl escapes to South Korea with her little brother after the Japanese and Russian occupations. | |
| Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster |
| Nhamo faces various life-threatening events when she flees Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape a forced marriage. | |
| Hill, Kirkpatrick | Toughboy and Sister |
| Two young Athabascan Indians survive for several months alone at a remote Yukon fish camp after their father?s death leaves them stranded. | |
| Jimenez, Francisco | The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child |
| Twelve intertwined stories follow a migrant family over several years. | |
| Johnson, Angela | Toning the Sweep |
| On a visit to her beloved and dying grandmother, Emmie discovers some parts of her family history that help her grow up. | |
| Naidoo, Beverley | Journey to Jo'Burg: A South African Story |
| Naledi and her younger brother travel 300 kilometers to Johannesburg to reach their mother so she can save their desperately ill baby sister. | |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | Habibi |
| When Liyana's half-Palestinian family moves to Jerusalem, she meets her Arab relatives and has to face unfamiliar tensions with the Israelis. | |
| Perkins, Mitali | The Sunita Experiment |
| Just when 8th grader Sunita Sen is beginning to feel "normal", her very traditional grandparents arrive from India to stay with her family in California. | |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Raven in a Dove House |
| While Nell is visiting her relatives for a month, her cousin and his friend force her to make a frightening choice that she can't handle on her own. | |
| Rogasky, Barbara | The Golem: A Version |
| A rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him protect the Jews of 16th century Prague. | |
| Soto, Gary | Baseball in April : And Other Stories |
| Stories of everyday life for young Mexican Americans in Fresno, California. | |
| Strete, Craig | The World in Grandfather's Hands |
| After his father's death, Jimmy and his mother move from the pueblo to the city to live with Grandfather Whitefeather. | |
| Temple, Frances | Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti |
| Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who has been working with Father Aristide to fight repression in Haiti. | |
| Wolff, Virginia | Bat 6 |
| Twenty-one girls in an Oregon town in 1949 recount how one girl's anti-Japanese bigotry destroys their long-awaited annual softball game. | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
| Thirteen-year-old Mel's comfortable life is shaken when his mother reveals she has fallen in love with a white woman. | |
| Yep, Laurence | Ribbons |
| When Robin's grandmother is brought over from Hong Kong, everything changes, and her family can no longer afford to pay for her ballet lessons. | |
Non-Fiction |
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| Call Number | Author | Title |
| 331.3 B285g | Bartoletti, Susan | Growing Up in Coal Country |
| Describes the life of children who worked in the coal mines and lived in mining towns in Pennsylvania in the late 1800's and early 1900's. | ||
| Ho, Minfong | The Clay Marble | |
| Dara and her family are forced to flee their village in Cambodia to a refugee camp where she begins to build a life until the war follows them there. | ||
| 325 M782d | Moore, David | Dark Sky, Dark Land: Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100 |
| Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100 during the Vietnam War and how they came to be refugees in the U.S. | ||
| 920 T461aL | Tillage, Leon | Leon's Story |
| An African American sharecropper's son recalls the hard times in the South and the changes the civil rights movement brought about. | ||
| 920 B64221m | Myers, Walter Dean | At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England |
| In 1850, an African princess was brought to England and caught the attention of Queen Victoria, who decided to oversee her upbringing and education. | ||
| 973.0496 M992n | Myers, Walter Dean | Now is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom |
| This history starts with the first African slaves brought to North America and continues up through the modern Civil Rights Movement. | ||
Want to get your hands on one of these books? Check the Berkeley Public Library catalog to see where you can get a copy!