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American Born Chinese
Gene Luen YangAlternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
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Shooting Kabul
N.H. SenzaiEscaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
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Born Confused
Tanuja Desai HidierSeventeen-year-old Dimple, whose family is from India, discovers that she is not Indian enough for the Indians and not American enough for the Americans, as she sees her hypnotically beautiful, manipulative best friend taking possession of both her heritage and the boy she likes.
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Afterworlds
Scott WesterfeldIn alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the 'Afterworld' to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
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Shine, Coconut Moon
Neesha MemingerIn the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Samar, who is of Punjabi heritage but has been raised with no knowledge of her past by her single mother, wants to learn about her family's history and to get in touch with the grandparents her mother shuns.
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Persepolis
Marjane SatrapiPersepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
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Ms. Marvel 1: No Normal
G. Willow WilsonKamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm!
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Bamboo People
Mitali PerkinsTwo Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.
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Silver Phoenix: Beyond the Kingdom of Xia
Cindy PonWith her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.
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A Time to Dance
Padma VenkatramanIn India, a girl who excels at Bharatanatyam dance refuses to give up after losing a leg in an accident.
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
Jenny HanLara Jean writes love letters to all the boys she has loved and then hides them in a hatbox until one day those letters are accidentally sent.