Thank you to everyone who answered my question about fiction for 7th grade - set in
Asia. I prepared a bibliography for my teachers including the SLJ review (when
available) and link to Amazon for more information. It was very time-consuming,
but I know they appreciated it. If you are interested in that full document -
email me and I can send it to you. It did not include every book - because of the
time involved - but it does include most. Below is a list of the titles I included
by country.
Also, one librarian did have a webpage for students - you can go to that site and
get some great information.
Http://damascus.gresham.k12.or.us/~greer
Thank you very much
Kristine Wildner
Librarian
Holy Apostles School
New Berlin, WI
kwildner@afo.net
AFGHANISTAN
Ellis, Deborah - The Breadwinner
Staples, Suzanne Fisher - Under the Persimmon Tree
CAMBODIA
Baillie, Allan - Little Brother
Ho, Minfong - The Stone Goddess
Ho, Minfong - The Clay Marble
China
Bosse, Malcom - The Examination
Chen, Da - Wandering Warrior
.
DeJong, Meindert - The House of Sixty Fathers
Fritz, Jean - Homesick, My Own Story
Jiang, Ji Li - Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (Nonfiction)
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman - Young Fu of the upper Yangtze
Mah, Adeline Yen - Chinese Cinderella : The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
(Non-fiction)
Mah, Adeline, Yen - Falling Leaves : The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
McCaughrean, Geraldine. The kite rider: A novel
Namioka, Lensey - Ties That Bind, Ties that Break
Namioka, Lensey - An Ocean Apart, A World Away
Napoli, Donna Jo - Bound
Russell, Ching Yeung. Child bride
Whelan, Gloria - Chu Ju's House
Yan, Ma - The Diary of Ma Yan : The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Yep, Laurence - Lady of Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531
India
Bosse, Malcolm - Tusk and Stone
Rankin, Louise - Daughter of the mountains
Staples, Suzanne Fisher - Shiva's Fire
Whelan, Gloria - Homeless Bird
Indonesia
Fama, Elizabeth - Overboard
ISREAL
Nye, Naomi S. - Habibi
JAPAN
Coerr, Eleanor - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Haurgaard, Erik C. - The Boy and The Samurai
Hoopler, Dorothy - The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Hoopler, Dorothy - The Demon in the Teahouse
Mori, Kyoko - Shizuko's Daughter
Paterson, Katherine - The Master Puppeteer
Paterson, Katherine - Of Nightengales that Weep
Say, Allen - The Ink-Keeper's Apprentice - Japan
Watkins, Yoko K. - So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Watkins, Yoko Kawashima - My brother, my sister, and I
Whitesal, Cheryl A - Blue Fingers : A Ninja's Tale.
Yumoto, Kazumi - The Friends
KOREA
Choi, Sook N. - The Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Choi, Sook N. - Echoes of the White Giraffe
Choi, Sook Nyul - Gathering of pearls
Kim, Helen - Long Season of Rain
Kim, Richard - Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Non-Fiction)
Park, Linda Sue - When My Name Was Keoko
Park, Linda Sue - A Single Shard
Pakistan
Staples, Suzanne Fisher - Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Border Trilogy)
Vietnam
Garland, Sherry - Song of the buffalo boy
Wartski, Maureen Crane - A boat to nowhere
The Letters by Kazumi Yumoto - Grade 9+
Tales of the Otori trilogy by Lian Hearn - Grade 9+
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck = Grade 9+
Rana, Indi - The roller birds of Rampur - Grade 9+
Beautiful Warrior by Emily McCully - Grades K - 5
Akio, Terumasa - Me and Alves: a Japanese journey - age 4 - 8
Lee, Jeanne M - Bitter dumplings - ages 4 -8
Mattingley, Christobel - The miracle tree - picture book - but for older readers
Say, Allen - Kamishibai man Grades 1-5
Stewart, Jennifer J. - Close encounters of a third-world kind - Grades 3 - 6
Yep, Laurence - Hiroshima - Grades 4 - 6
Tsuchiya, Yukio - Faithful elephants: a true story of animals, people, and war -
picture book - all ages
Crew, Linda - Children of the river - main setting is U.S. - Cambodian immigrant
Pastore, Clare. Chantrea Conway's story. - good chunk seems to be set in U.S.
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