HIT-MIDDLE-Coming of age world cultures PT 2

["Feld, Trish" <tfeld@cbms.wdsd.k12.vt.us>]

Thanks to Kathleen Fernandes for a contribution to the list of coming of age 
novels, world cultures


These are set in the Middle East or India:
             Hicyilmaz, Gaye. Against the storm.
             Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the dust.
             Levitin, Sonia. The return.
             Matas, Carol. The garden.
             Temple, Frances. The Beduins' gazelle.

             These are African or African American:
             Abrahams, Peter. Mine boy.
             Achebe, Chinua. Things fall apart.
             Armstrong, Jennifer. Steal away.
             Bennett, James W. Blue star rapture.
             Brooks, Bruce. The moves make the man.
             Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
             Emecheta, Buchi. The bride price.
             Farmer, Nancy. The ear, the eye, and the arm.
             Farmer, Nancy. A girl named Disaster.
             Hansen, Joyce. The captive.
             Naidoo, Beverly. Chain of fire.
             Sanders, Dori. Clover.

             These are Latin American or South American:
             Abelove, Joan. Go and come back.
             Buss, Fran Leeper. Journey of the sparrows.
             Esquivel, Laura. Like water for chocolate.
             Jenkins, Lyll Becerra de. The honorable prison.
             (If you want Mexican American, try Gary Soto or Victor Martinez)

             These are Asian or Asian American:
             Buck, Pearl. The good earth.
             Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of impossible goodbyes.
             Garland, Sherry. Song of the buffalo boy.
             Ho, Minfong. Rice without rain.
             Kim, Helen S. The long season of rain.
             Lee, Gus. China boy.
             Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's daughter.
             Paterson, Katherine. The master puppeteer.
             Paterson, Katherine. Of nightingales that weep.
             Paterson, Katherine. The sign of the chrysanthemum.
             Salisbury, Graham. Under the blood red sun.
             Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So far from the bamboo grove.

             Kathleen Fernandes
             Librarian, Crossroads School
             Saint Louis, Missouri
             kathleen@inlink.com












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