Good Reads
Crossing Borders: Learn About People from Other Countries
Explore life through the eyes of a person who lives in another country.
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The Forgotten Fire By Bagdasarian, Adam DK Publishing 2000/11 - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Check Our Catalog CCBC Choices - 2001 In the next three weeks he will lose his home and know hunger and thirst for the first time. In the next three years he will become an orphan, a prisoner, a beggar, a servant, a stowaway in order to survive. He will meet and be befriended by the Horsesho ...More |
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Chanda's Secrets By Stratton, Allan 2004/03 - Annick Press Check Our Catalog "A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic." ""As soon as I get back from the shabeen, I go next door to see Mrs. Tafa. I have to ask to use her phone to let our relatives know about Sara. I'm nervous. Mrs. Tafa would like to run the world. Since she can't run the world she's decided to run our neighborhood."" So speaks sixteen-year-old Chanda, an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. While Mrs. Tafa's hijinks are often amusing, the fact is that Chanda's world is profoundly difficult. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges. In this sensitive, swiftly-paced story readers will find echoes of "To Kill a Mockingbird" as Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AID ...More |
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Naming Maya By Krishnaswami, Uma 2004/04 - Farrar Straus Giroux Check Our Catalog West meets East |
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Homeless Bird By Whelan, Gloria 2000/03 - HarperCollins Publishers Check Our Catalog Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly is getting married. When she discovers that the husband her parents have chosen for her is a sickly boy with wicked parents, Koly wishes she could flee. According to tradition, though, she has no choice. On her wedding day, Koly's fate is sealed. In the wake of her marriage, however, Koly's life takes an unexpected turn, and she finds herself alone in a strange city of white-sariclad widows. Her only choice seems to be to shed her name and her future and join the hopeless hordes who chant for food. Even then, cast out into a current of time-worn tradition, this rare young woman sets out to forge her own exceptional future. And a life, like a beautiful tapestry, comes together for Koly -- one stitch at a time. ...More |
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The Breadwinner By Ellis, Deborah 2001/10 - Groundwood Books Check Our Catalog Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. The family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. ...More |
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Before We Were Free By Alvarez, Julia 2002/08 - Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Check Our Catalog Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tio Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government's secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo's dictatorship. |
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When My Name Was Keoko By Park, Linda Sue 2002/03 - Clarion Books Check Our Catalog CCBC Choices - 2003 |
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Colibri By Cameron, Ann 2003/08 - Farrar Straus Giroux Check Our Catalog The story of a young Mayan girl, who at the age of four is kidnapped from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City, and the eight years that pass as she longs for the family she was stolen from. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 4.6, 7 Points. ...More |
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Many Stones By Coman, Carolyn Handprint 1996/10 - Front Street Check Our Catalog CCBC Choices - 2001 |
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Real Time By Kass, Pnina Moed 2004/10 - Clarion Books Check Our Catalog Sixteen-year-old Thomas Wanninger wants to find out what his grandfather, a Nazi officer, did during World War II. Thomas is going to Israel to work on a kibbutz, where he will have access to a Jerusalem archive that may hold the information he seeks. His life is one of many to be affected by a terrorist attack that occurs on the day he arrives. ...More |
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Under the Persimmon Tree By Staples, Suzanne Fisher 2005/08 - Farrar Straus Giroux Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title |

