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Cuba 15

Nancy Osa · 304 pages

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Skunk Girl

Sheba Karim · 231 pages

Nina Khan is not just the only Asian or Muslim student in her small-town high school in upstate New York, she is also faces the legacy of her "Supernerd" older sister, body hair, and the pain of having a crush when her parents forbid her to date.

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Good Enough

Paula Yoo · 336 pages

How to make your Korean parents happy:1. Get a perfect score on the SATs.2. Get into HarvardYalePrinceton.3. Don't talk to boys.*Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting into an Ivy League school. So winning assistant concertmaster in her All-State violin competition and earning less than 2300 on her S

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Does My Head Look Big In This?

Randa Abdel-Fattah · 368 pages

Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.

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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas · 458 pages

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter navigates between the poverty-stricken neighborhood she has grown up in and the upper-crust suburban prep school she attends. Her life is up-ended when she is the sole witness to a police officer shooting her best friend, Khalil, who turns out to have been unarmed during the confrontation – but may or may not have been a drug dealer. As Starr finds herself even more t

Cultural IdentityYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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All-American Girl

Meg Cabot · 288 pages

A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Young AdultTeen ProtagonistCultural IdentityContemporary Fiction
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow

Faiza Guene · 179 pages

Struggling with an overworked mother, an absent father, and the challenges of life within the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris, fifteen-year-old French Muslim Doria endures a parade of social workers, experiences a first kiss, and assumes a philosophical outlook regarding her circumstances.

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistContemporary FictionYoung Adult
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Bitter Melon

Cara Chow · 309 pages

Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent. Frances, a Chinese American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she become a doctor w

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The Education of Margot Sánchez

Lilliam Rivera · 300 pages

Margot Sanchez is paying off her debts by working in her family's South Bronx grocery store, but she must make the right choices about her friends, her family, and Moises, the good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood.

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Piecing Me Together

Renee Watson · 264 pages

Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And she has. She accepted a scholarship to a mostly-white private school and even Saturday morning test prep opportunities. But some opportunities feel more demeaning than helpful. Like an invitation to join Women to Women, a mentor

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Saints and Misfits

S.K. Ali · 328 pages

Janna Yusuf knows a lot of people can t figure out what to make of her an Arab Indian-American hijabi teenager who is a Flannery O Connor obsessed book nerd, aspiring photographer, and sometime graphic novelist is not exactly easy to put into a box. And Janna suddenly finds herself caring what people think. Or at least what a certain boy named Jeremy thinks. Not that she would ever date him Muslim

Cultural IdentityYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · 384 pages

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would nev

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Perfect Chemistry

Simone Elkeles · 384 pages

When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.

Cultural IdentityYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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The Manifesto on How to be Interesting

Holly Bourne · 464 pages

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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The Fold

An Na · 192 pages

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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The Secret Side of Empty

Maria E. Andreu · 336 pages

M.T. is a high-achieving high school student, who hiding the fact that she's an undocumented immigrant in the United States

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Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel

Sara Farizan · 304 pages

When Leila develops a crush on a new female student she has to decide if her sexuality is something she wants to share with everyone else.

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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In a Perfect World

Trish Doller · 304 pages

When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 256 pages

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Cultural IdentityYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull

Barry Jonsberg · 257 pages

Calma, who is smart and an excellent writer, and her unlikely friend, Kiffo, a seeming all-around failure, undertake a dangerous project when they follow an abusive teacher whom they suspect of dealing drugs.

Teen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary FictionFunny
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Chanda's Secrets

Allan Stratton · 193 pages

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

Suzanne Fisher Staples · 240 pages

When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

Cultural IdentityTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultContemporary Fiction
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The Queen of Water

Laura Resau, Maria Virginia Farinango · 352 pages

Living in a village in Ecuador, a Quechua Indian girl is sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family. This story is based on the life story of María Virginia Farinango, a Quichua Indian girl sent to work as an indentured servant for an upper class "mestizo" family. The plot contains episodes of abuse. The coauthor is María Virginia Farinango.

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