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10 best books like Out of Bounds (Beverley Naidoo): Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You, The Shepherd's Granddaughter, Samir and Yonatan, This Thing Called the Future, Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, The Composition, Hiroshima No Pika, Promise the Night, Jamela's Dress

Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You
AuthorHanna Jansen
ISBN1575059274
Before that fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She bickered with her little sister, went to school, teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne's family,...
The Shepherd's Granddaughter
AuthorAnne Laurel Carter
Amani longs to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather Sido, who has tended his flock for generations, grazing sheep on their family's homestead near Hebron. Amani loves Sido's many stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos. But as outside forces begin to encroach upon this...
Samir and Yonatan
AuthorDaniella Carmi
ISBN0439135230
Winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award, this very human novel of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is both touching and timely

Nothing could be more frightening to Samir, a Palestinian boy, than to be where he is now: an Israeli hospital ward, trapped among the very people he blames for his...
This Thing Called the Future
AuthorJ.L. Powers
ISBN1933693959
Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother Gogo, her little sister Zi, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to...
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN0152065458
As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something—and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard....
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
AuthorClaire A. Nivola
ISBN0374399182
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed....
The Composition
AuthorAntonio Skármeta
ISBN0888995504
Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things...
Hiroshima No Pika
AuthorToshi Maruki
ISBN0688012973
I started out reading this book for my children's lit class at PSU. What first drew me to this book was the fact that it was about Hiroshima, and me being half japanese, I wanted to see what they wrote down. I mean other than japanese, japanese americans, and history enthusiast who knows a lot about what actually...
Promise the Night
AuthorMichaela MacColl
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
Jamela's Dress
AuthorNiki Daly
ISBN0374437203
Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...
Down Sand Mountain
AuthorSteve Watkins
ISBN0763638390
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants
AuthorDonald R. Gallo
ISBN0763632910
"Stories by eleven well-known authors touch on a variety of teen experiences, with enough attitude and angst to speak to young adults anywhere." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Fleeing from political violence in Venezuela, Amina and her family have settled in the United States. Sarah, adopted,...
The Frog Scientist
AuthorPamela S. Turner
ISBN0618717161
The critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field book about how one boy’s interest in backyard science inspired a career in scientific discovery.

When Tyrone Hayes was growing up in South Carolina, he didn’t worry about pesticides. He just liked to collect frogs. Tyrone’s interest...
Betrayal on Orbis 2
AuthorP.J. Haarsma
ISBN0763627100
Sci-fi fans will tear through this new adventure as Johnny Turnbull — first human softwire — finds more danger and intrigue on the next ring of Orbis.

On Orbis 2, Johnny Turnbull has a new home and a new job, one that pushes his softwire abilities to painful limits. JT is the only one who can...
The Storyteller's Beads
AuthorJane Kurtz
ISBN0152010742
“The Storytellers Beads” by Jane Kurtz (who grew up in a remote village in southwest corner of Ethiopia) is about the main characters, Sahay and Rahel that are both from Ethiopia. Rahel is an Ethiopian Jew who is also blind. Sahay is an Orthodox Christian. The story follows their journey during the...
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
AuthorLinda Glaser
ISBN0547171846
Give me your tired,  your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...
Who wrote these words?  And why?
 
In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty.  Originally a gift...
Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books
AuthorKaren Leggett Abouraya
ISBN0803737475
The inspiring true story of demonstrators standing up for the love of a library, from a New York Times bestselling illustrator

In January 2011, in a moment that captured the hearts of people all over the world, thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and demonstrators surrounded...
The Enemy: A Book About Peace
AuthorDavide Calì
ISBN0375845003
I pulled this book off my shelves when thinking about Dresden this week. I love this book. It says so much using so little. Two soldiers, sitting opposite each other in their separate foxholes, are enemies because their manuals told them they were enemies.

One solider claims his enemy isn't...
Wednesday
AuthorAnne Bertier
ISBN1592701523
Wednesday is a sweet story about two best friends, Little Round and Big Square. But it's also about what it is to really play imaginatively with another. Every Wednesday, our two friends get together to play. Sometimes they have some tough moments, like all true friends, but they mostly have the best...
Reaching for the Moon
AuthorBuzz Aldrin
ISBN1595195823
I've read, extensively this past week, everything I could find about Buzz Aldrin while helping my 10 year old research his Famous American report. And then we got our hands on this beautiful autobiographical book. Written for children, it's simple and straightforward in its delivery, yet it's more...
Roberto & Me
AuthorDan Gutman
ISBN0061234842
Sometimes you can change history . . . and sometimes history can change you.

When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible...
Why Is Milk White?: 200 Other Curious Chemistry Questions
AuthorAlexa Coelho
ISBN1613744528
Covering a wide variety of everyday chemistry concepts from the very simple to the more complex, this question-and-answer primer provides straightforward, easy-to-understand explanations for inquisitive young scientists’ questions. A dozen unique experiments to try at home—from lifting...
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
AuthorJeff Sypeck
ISBN0060797061
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl. With one gesture, the man later hailed as Charlemagne claimed his empire and forever shaped the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international power...
Camel Rider
AuthorPrue Mason
ISBN1580893147
War has broken out in the Middle East and all foreigners are fleeing. Instead of escaping with his neighbors, Adam sneaks off to save his dog, which has been left behind. Lost in the desert, Adam meets Walid, an abused camel boy who is on the run. Together they struggle to survive the elements and elude the...
Wild Horses
AuthorJenny Oldfield
ISBN1402213271
"There is no greater trust than the one between a rider and her horse."

Kirstie Scott lives for horses. She is leading a horse trek through Miners' Ridge when a sudden storm causes a landslide. She is trapped alone in Dead Man's Canyon with a herd of wild horses whose leader - a proud stallion - has...
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