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10 best books like Samir and Yonatan (Daniella Carmi): Wanting Mor, The Shepherd's Granddaughter, Why?, California Blue, Burying the Sun, The Composition, The Friends, Hiroshima No Pika, Rain Is Not My Indian Name, Spellbound

Wanting Mor
AuthorRukhsana Khan
ISBN0888998589
Jameela and her family live in a poor, war-torn village in Afghanistan. Even with her cleft lip and lack of educational opportunities, Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela’s father impulsively decides to start...
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...
Why?
AuthorNikolai Popov
ISBN1558589961
Why?
A violent war breaks out between frogs and mice over precious resources.

Implied reader

To gain the most from the text the read needs basic understanding and prior knowledge of warfare and how disagreements can begin and escalate quickly into some that was never intended....
California Blue
AuthorDavid Klass
ISBN0590466895
This is a very special little book.It is apparently out of print and has been suggested for young adult audiences. I think the only reason for that limitation is that it is about a young adult. I found this book in our public library's book shop and in reading the summary found that it was about a high school...
Burying the Sun
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN0060541121
The third book in the St. Petersburg Quartet depicts the horror of the 900 day siege of Leningrad.

Rich in historical detail, haunting in imagery, the tale of Georgi and Marya continues. Previously they traveled to Siberia to locate their parents.

Now residing in Leningrad, the characters...
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...
The Friends
AuthorKazumi Yumoto
ISBN0374324603
People come to this book, read the story and simply like that, they are engrossed with the book. They could not do anything else than turn pages after pages, and when they close the book, they do so with a sense of longing and a sadness that is long to disperse.

When I first opened the book, I had thought,...
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...
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
AuthorCynthia Leitich Smith
ISBN0688173977
It's been six months since her best friend died, and up until now Rain has succeeded in shutting herself off from the world. But when controversy arises around her aunt Georgia's Indian Camp in their mostly white midwestern community, Rain decides to face the outside world again—at least through...
Spellbound
AuthorJanet McDonald
Raven never expected to be a mother at sixteen. Is she going to be just another high school dropout, a project girl with few prospects? Could be, except Raven has ambition. Still, when is she going to find the time to finish school? Then her older sister tells her about a spelling bee that promises the winner...
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio
AuthorTony Johnston
ISBN0439233844
Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for young readers.

Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases...
Colibri
AuthorAnn Cameron
ISBN0440420520
Colibri by Ann Cameron presented itself almost like an autobiography given by its main character Tzunun, (nicknamed is Colibri). She is kidnapped at the age of four from her parents and is now about 12 years old. Her caretaker is an individual she calls “uncle”. He told her he found her on the street...
Out of Bounds
AuthorBeverley Naidoo
ISBN3125737516
We are the young people, We will not be broken For almost fifty years, apartheid forced the young people of South Africa to live apart as Blacks, Whites, Indians, and "Coloreds." This unique and dramatic collection of stories--by native South African and Carnegie Medalist Beverley Naidoo--is about...
The No. 1 Car Spotter
AuthorAtinuke
ISBN1610670515
When I discovered the amazing, remarkable, one-of-a-kind, never before seen Anna Hibiscus books by Atinuke last year I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. It just didn't seem possible. A contemporary early chapter book set on the continent of Africa? To understand how rare this was visit your local...
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
AuthorLenore Look
ISBN0689864604
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's strange food on the table every night and only chopsticks to...
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...
Coolies
AuthorYin
ISBN0142500550
Shek marvels at the new world as he and his brother, Little Wong, arrive in California. Along with hundreds of other workers, the brothers are going to build a great railroad across the West. They plan to save enough money so that their mother and little brothers can join them in America. But as days grow...
Monsoon Summer
AuthorMitali Perkins
ISBN0440238404
Jasmine “Jazz” Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother’s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn’t Jazz’s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother’s...
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam
AuthorHuynh Quang Nhuong
ISBN0064401839
An ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Booklist Editors’ Choice, about one young man’s memories of the land he called home.

The land I love was lost to me forever.

Huynh Quang Nhuong grew up in the highlands of Vietnam, next to the jungle teeming with wildlife. Encounters with tigers,...
Sitti's Secrets
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0689817061
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance.

Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her.

The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned...
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN0888996454
In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was demolished by soldiers. And we meet twelve-year-old Salam,...
Pacific Crossing
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152046968
Fourteen-year-old Lincoln (Linc) Mendoza, a Franklin Junior High student of Mexican-American heritage who just finished seventh grade, lives with his mother in a Mission District barrio of San Francisco, CA. During the summer, Linc and his best friend, Tony Contreras, go to Japan as exchange students,...
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