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10 best books like Gringolandia (Lyn Miller-Lachmann): Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, The Color of Rain, Damage, Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck, Reaching Out, Muchacho, Alligator Bayou, Strange Relations, The Goldsmith's Daughter

Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
AuthorAurora Levins Morales
ISBN0896085813
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine
AuthorColin Kennedy Donovan
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
The Color of Rain
AuthorCori McCarthy
ISBN0762448210
If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is "Touched," and losing the rest of her family to the same disease, Rain has long had to fend for herself on the bleak, dangerous streets of Earth City. When she looks to the...
Damage
AuthorA.M. Jenkins
ISBN0060290994
I was surprised by how well the second person narrative fit this novel, considering I'd never really seen it done well before. The book tells the story of a high school senior struggling with depression and his relationship with a girl whose father has committed suicide. While the main character, Austin,...
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805092404
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and...
Reaching Out
AuthorFrancisco Jiménez
ISBN0618038515
From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.
During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind...
Muchacho
AuthorLouAnne Johnson
"An inspiring YA debut from the author of "Dangerous Minds."
"Eddie Corazon is angry. He's also very smart. But he's working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he's a secret reader. He hangs with his cousins, who will always back him up--when they aren't...
Alligator Bayou
AuthorDonna Jo Napoli
ISBN0385746547
Talullah, Louisiana. 1899.

Calogero, his uncles, and cousins are six Sicilian men living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana. They work hard, growing vegetables and selling them at their stand and in their grocery store.

To 14-year-old Calogero, newly arrived from Sicily,...
Strange Relations
AuthorSonia Levitin
ISBN0375837515
A summer in paradise. That's all Marne wants. That's all she can think of when she asks her parents permission to spend the summer in Hawaii with Aunt Carole and her family.

But Marne quickly realizes her visit isn't going to be just about learning to surf and morning runs along the beach, despite...
The Goldsmith's Daughter
AuthorTanya Landman
ISBN0763642193
A bearer of doom, or a bringer of change? As the Aztec empire falls, one girl defies her destiny.

In the golden city of Tenochtitlán, the people live in awe of Emperor Montezuma and in fear of blood-hungry gods. Under an ill-fated sky, a girl is born, facing a life of submission and domestic drudgery....
The Devil's Paintbox
AuthorVictoria McKernan
ISBN0375837507
When orphans Aiden and Maddy Lynch first meet trailrider Jefferson J. Jackson in the spring of 1865, they're struggling to survive on their family's drought-ravaged Kansas farm. So when Jackson offers an escape – a 2000-mile journey across the roughest country in the world – Aiden knows it's their...
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
A Newbery Honor winner collaborates with a new writer in this hip-hop-inspired historical thriller.

Pemba knows she's not crazy. But who is that looking out at her through her mirror's eye? And why does the apparition call her "friend?" Her real friends are back home in Brooklyn, not in the...
My Father's Son
AuthorTerri Fields
ISBN1596433493
WHAT IF YOUR FATHER ISN'T WHO YOU THOUGHT HE WAS?

"I turn up the volume as a woman at a news desk announces, 'This just in…the alleged DB25 monster has been arrested.' Good. The camera switches from the anchor to a mug shot…and it is my face--or at least my face as it will look thirty years from...
Red Midnight
AuthorBen Mikaelson
ISBN0380805618
When guerrilla soldiers strike Santiago's village, they destroy everything in their path -- including his home and family. Santiago and his four-year-old sister escape, running for their lives. But the only way they can be truly safe is to leave Guatemala behind forever. So Santiago and Angelina...
Palante: Young Lords Party
AuthorYoung Lords Party
ISBN1608461297
In 1969, a group of young Puerto Rican activists founded the Young Lords Party in New York City, taking inspiration from the Black Panthers. Palante, the first book by and about the radical organization, is brought back into print here with new introductory material. Capturing the spirit and actions...
Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush
AuthorLuis Alberto Urrea
ISBN1933693231
Mr. Mendoza, Mexico’s self-described king of graffiti, blesses the small town of Rosario with his sardonic wit. “Deflate your pomp or float away!” he paints on the body of an unexpectedly exhumed monk. “No intelligent life for 100 kilometers,” he proclaims on the sign that announces Rosario’s...
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
AuthorRosemarie Garland-Thomson
ISBN0814782221
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered...
Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond
AuthorDavid Gilbert
ISBN1604863196
Written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost 30 years, this enlightening memoir chronicles the militant career of David Gilbert, a radical activist whose incarceration is due to his involvement in the 1981 Brinks robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four...
Out of Shadows
AuthorJason Wallace
ISBN1849390487
Set in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, just after the war for independence, a young English boy, Jacklin, is torn between his black friends at school and his sympathy for the colonial whites after witnessing the compulsory land seizures by Robert Mugabe's government.

But with an imminent visit by Robert...
Brotherhood
AuthorA.B. Westrick
ISBN0670014397
The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. Yankees now patrol the streets of Richmond, Virginia, and its citizens, both black and white, are struggling to redefine their roles and relationships. By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices...
No More Us for You
AuthorDavid Hernandez
ISBN0061173339
For a life to come together, sometimes it first has to fall completely apart.

Isabel is a regular seventeen-year-old girl, still reeling from the pain of her boyfriend's tragic death exactly one year ago.

Carlos is a regular seventeen-year-old guy, loves red licorice and his friends,...
An Off Year
AuthorClaire Zulkey
ISBN0525421599
Cecily has always done everything as she was supposed to: taken the right classes, gotten the right grades, applied to the right colleges. But after a lifetime of following the rules, she surprises everyone by arriving for her freshman year of college . . . and turning around. There are infinite possibilities...
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
AuthorAlondra Nelson
ISBN0816676488
Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but...
A Moment Comes
AuthorJennifer Bradbury
ISBN1416978763
A Moment Comes was a really interesting read for me, for a few different reasons.

One: It's set during the partition of India, which is something I never heard of until I read this book. So it was really cool to read something about a period of time I never even knew about.

Two: I love that...
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