Publisher: Front Street
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781590785188
ISBN-10: 1590785185

In post-World War II Budapest, a young girl and her family struggle against the oppressive Hungarian Worker's Party policies and try to find a way to a better life.

Publisher: A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780375915444
ISBN-10: 0375915443

Noticing that nearly all of her family has left the Dominican Republic for the United States, twelve-year-old Anita begins to question why and quickly comes to understand when her uncle suddenly disappears and her family becomes terrorized by the secret police.

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Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780888994196
ISBN-10: 0888994192

Pravana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban--the radical religious faction controlling Afghanistan--and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment building, must disguise herself as a boy to work and support her family.

Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780525465218
ISBN-10: 0525465219

After being caught for a pick-pocketing scam while doing their street performance, Benno's father is arrested, his beloved bear is sent to a zoo, and he is placed with a kind family, but Benno wonders if his father will accept the educated and mannered son he will meet upon their reunion.

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Publisher: Simon Pulse
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780689861789
ISBN-10: 0689861788

In a Chinese-inspired "Cinderella" tale for young readers, Xing Xing lives a hard life under the oppressive rule of Stepmother and Sister until one magical night when she attends the annual festival in disguise and meets a prince whose love for her changes everything. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.

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Publisher: Charlesbridge
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9781580893145
ISBN-10: 1580893147

Two expatriates living in a Middle Eastern country, twelve-year-old Adam from Australia and Walid from Bangladesh, must rely on one another when war breaks out and they find themselves in the desert, both trying to reach the same city with no water, little food, and no common language.

Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780060282332
ISBN-10: 0060282339

In a debut novel by an established poet, Ana Rosa--a blossoming young writer growing up in a poor seaside village in the Dominican Republic--must struggle to find her own voice and the means for it to be heard in a country where words are feared rather than written down. 20,000 first printing.

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/12/2004
ISBN-13: 9780689857478
ISBN-10: 0689857470

Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.

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Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/1990
ISBN-13: 9780140345353
ISBN-10: 0140345353

Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Publisher: Scholastic Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780439120418
ISBN-10: 0439120411

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

Publisher: Philomel Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1999
ISBN-13: 9780399233302
ISBN-10: 039923330X

Seikei, the fourteen-year-old son of a tea merchant in Japan, wants desperately to become a samurai, and he gets his chance to prove his courage when he becomes involved in the pursuit of a ruby thief.

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Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780060284541
ISBN-10: 0060284544

Discovering that her arranged husbandtobe is too young and desperately ill, thirteenyearold Koly knows that her life will never be the same after she is married and so must find a way to make things better for herself despite the difficulties she must endure due to family traditions.

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/1990
ISBN-13: 9780689505034
ISBN-10: 0689505035

During the final days of the Japanese occupation of China, Shao-shao celebrates his tenth birthday, observes traditional holidays with his family, and befriends the daughter of a traitor.

Publisher: HarperCollins
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/2005
ISBN-13: 9780060581756
ISBN-10: 0060581751

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel Sheridan is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

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Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/15/2010
ISBN-13: 9780547251271
ISBN-10: 0547251270

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/06/2004
ISBN-13: 9780374354855
ISBN-10: 0374354855

When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/24/1989
ISBN-13: 9780395510605
ISBN-10: 0395510600

During the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie helps shelter a Jewish friend from the Nazis.

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Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780888995148
ISBN-10: 0888995148

After her father dies, twelve-year-old Parvana is left to fend for herself and so, dressed as a boy and accompanied by other children on the run, must find a way to locate her remaining family inside war-torn Afghanistan, in the dramatic sequel to The Breadwinner.

Publisher: Bright Sky Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9781933979236
ISBN-10: 1933979232

In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9781596431669
ISBN-10: 1596431660

The artistic Ernestina and the analytical Enriquito use their ingenuity to save a herd of wild horses and stop an evil landowner from spoiling their Cuban village.

Publisher: H. Holt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/21/2007
ISBN-13: 9780805082074
ISBN-10: 0805082077

Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.

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Publisher: Scholatic Signature
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/01/2002
ISBN-13: 9780439135238
ISBN-10: 0439135230

When Samir, a young Palestinian boy, is scheduled to go to an Israeli hospital for an operation, he fears the worse, but upon meeting a young Israeli boy, Yonatan, his fears begin to subside as they become friends through their talks about far away adventures. Reprint.

Publisher: Harper & Row
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1984
ISBN-13: 9780060268121
ISBN-10: 0060268123

In nineteenth-century China, a young girl struggles to protect her family from the threat of bandits, famine, and an ideological conflict between her father and brother.

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780763622572
ISBN-10: 0763622575

Eleven-year-old Noi worries that she will have to stop painting the silk umbrellas her family sells at the market near their Thai village and be forced to join her older sister in difficult work at a local factory instead. By the author of The Gold-Threaded Dress. Jr Lib Guild.

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Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/1992
ISBN-13: 9780152771072
ISBN-10: 0152771077

Seventeen-year-old Loi's family promises to wed her to an older man, so she flees to Ho Chi Minh City and, with her buffalo-herding boyfriend, prepares to leave for America in search of her biological father.

Publisher: Clarion Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/24/1995
ISBN-13: 9780395691724
ISBN-10: 0395691729

As World War II begins, thirteen-year-old Jessie, attending the Alveara boarding school in Belfast, Northern Ireland, begins to suspect that her German teacher is really a Nazi spy.

Publisher: Amulet Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780810949331
ISBN-10: 0810949334

Chronicles the harrowing journey of Ehmet, a thirteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo who gets caught up in the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia after being separated from his parents.

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Publisher: Viking
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/06/2006
ISBN-13: 9780670060511
ISBN-10: 0670060518

As the siblings await the arrival of their father's youngest brother in their small town in northern India, the excitement builds as talk of his grand adventures, such as charming an angry tree ghost and feeding a tiger, takes over the event and increases their curiosity.