Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.
Dr. David Loertscher
Summer, 1998

Multicultural Fiction for Teens
Cooperative Children's Book Center, 1996

Doherty, Berlie. The Snake-Stone. Orchard, 1996. 15-year-old James searches rural England for his birth mother and finds that he has always been loved.

Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster. Orchard, 1996. A Mozambique teenager escapes to Zimbabwe to escape marriage and find her family.

Jenkins, Lyll becerra de. So Loud a Silence. Lodestar, 1996. 17-year old Juan Guillermo deals with political intrigue in Bogota, Columbia.

Kim, Helen. The Long Season of Rain. Holt, 1996. A young Korean girl and her mother deal with life during the 1960ís.

Martinez, Vicor. Paarrot in the Oven: mi vida. HarperCollins, 1996. A Mexican-American teenagerís struggles to rise above neighborhood poverty, apathy and violence.

Myers, Walter Dean. Slam. Scholastic, 1996. 17-year-old Slam has dreams of playing in the NBA, but everything and everybody seem to be in the way of his plans.

Nix, Garth. Sabriel. HarperCollins, 1996. A fantasy of characters engaged in a battle of life and death.

Pennebaker, Ruth. Donít Think Twice. Holt, 1996. An unwed pregnant teen tries to deal with life around her.

Paulsen, Gary. Brian's Winter. Delacorte, 1996. Hatchetís Brian finds out what it is like not to be rescued from his plane crash in the wilderness.

Rubinstein, Gillan. Foxspell. Simon & Schuster, 1996. Australian Tod deals with a family of humans and foxes and learns much from both.

Temple, Frances. The Bedouinsí Gazelle. Orchard, 1996. 14th century Bedouin cousins leave their North African desert home to study in the city.

Thomas, Rob. Rats Saw God. Simon & Schuster, 1996. How can Steve have a life under the shadow of a famous father?

Turner, Megan Whalen. The Thief. Greenwillow, 1996. Can a thief save a kingdom? A riveting fantasy adventure.

Vries, Anke de. Bruises. Front Street, 1995. A Dutch teenager deals with child abuse.

Wilson, Budge. Mothers & Other Strangers. Harcourt Brace, 1996. Nine stories of teen girls examine their lives.

Woodson, Jacqueline. A Way Out of No Way: Writings About Growing Up Black in America. An anthology of real people and real lives.

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