Younger Readers (Older Readers)
 Kudler, David / The Seven Gods of Luck / Grades Pre-2
Two Japanese children hope to celebrate New Year’s properly, and,helped by the Seven Gods of Luck, they do.
McCully, Emily Arnold / Beautiful Warrior / Grades K-3
Tells the story of two unlikely kung fu masters and how their skill in martial arts saves them both.
Mollel, Tololwa M. / Kele’s Secret / Grades Pre-2
A young African boy who lives with his grandparents follows a hen in order to find out where she is hiding her eggs.
 Onyefulu, Ifeoma / Chidi Only Likes Blue / Grades Pre-2
Chidi has a favorite color, blue. His sister decides to teach him about other colors seen in their village.
Petersen, Palle / Inunguak the little Greenlander / Gr 1-3
The other Inuit boys make fun of little Inunguak, who cannot hunt and spends all his time listening to his grandfather’s old stories of the People.
 Riecken, Nancy / Today is the Day / Grades Pre-2
A young Mexican girl eagerly awaits her absent father’s return and hopes that he will bring enough money so that she can walk to school in new shoes.
Waldman, Neil / The Never-ending Greenness / Grades 1-4
When his family comes to live in Israel after the end of World War II, a young boy begins planting and caring for trees, a practice that spreads across the whole country.
Older Readers (Younger Readers)  Cavanagh, Helen / The Last Piper / Grades 4-7
During a trip to Scotland, thirteen-year-old Christie becomes convinced that her brother is the reincarnation of a Scotsman who was hanged fifty years earlier.
Farmer, Nancy / Do You Know Me? / Grades 3-6
Tapiwa’s uncle becomes her best friend when he comes to live with her family in Zimbabwe, after his village in Mozambique is burned by bandits.
Godden, Rumer / Premlata and the Festival of Lights / Grades 2-4
In Bengal, India, Premlata’s family is too poor to celebrate the Festival of Lights until fate and an elephant step in.
 Lasky, Kathryn / Grace the Pirate / Grades 3-6
Grace O’Malley finds excitement when she defies Irish tradition and goes off to sea with her father, a trader and pirate.
Layton, George / The Swap / Grades 4-7
An English schoolboy has a series of adventures and comes to new understandings about prejudice, friendship, and fathers.
Naidoo, Beverly / No Turning Back / Grades 5-9
When the abuse at home becomes too much for twelve-year-old Sipho, he runs to the streets of Johannesburg and learns to survive in the post-apartheid world.
 Russell, Ching Yeung / The Lichee Tree / Grades 4-7
In 1940’s China, ten-year-old Ying can’t wait for her lichee tree to bloom so she can sell the fruit to help her family, who are threatened by a greedy landowner.
Williams, Laura E. / Behind the Bedroom Wall / Grades 5-8
Korinna, a ten-year-old German girl, must decide whether or not to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret place.
Yumoto, Kazumi / The Friends / Grades 5-7
Curious about death, three sixth-grade boys decide to spy on an old man in the neighborhood and wait for him to die, but they end up becoming his friends.
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