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Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Nigeria

Democracy outside. Dictatorship inside. Same man.

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Rick

Alex Gino

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He doesn't know what he is yet. There's a club for that.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Mildred D. Taylor

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Family, fury, and Mississippi mud.

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Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi

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The Gulf Coast drowned. He strips tankers to survive. Then a choice.

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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Becky Albertalli

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His private emails got found. His timeline got stolen.

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Sold

Patricia McCormick

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India

Her stepfather sold her. She thought she was getting a job.

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Solito

Javier Zamora

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Nine years old. Alone. He made it.

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Something Like an Autobiography

Akira Kurosawa

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A master learns out loud.

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Sozaboy

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Nigeria

A boy soldier invents a language to tell his war.

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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Silence gets loud.

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Split the Sky

Marie Arnold

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She can see the future. One death could save many. Her choice.

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Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

D.T. Niane

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Mali

Mali's founding myth, told by griots for 700 years.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

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North America

A reservation kid goes to the white school. Everyone loses.

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The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Kang Chol-hwan

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North Korea

Sent to a labor camp at nine for what grandpa did.

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The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the First)

Lemony Snicket

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Every adult fails them. Count Olaf nearly wins. Thirteen times.

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The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

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She wants blue eyes. Morrison shows exactly how that happens.

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The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis

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Afghanistan

Taliban took her father. She became a boy to save her family.

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

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Dominican Republic

A Dominican nerd, a family curse, and Trujillo's long shadow.

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The Circuit

Francisco Jiménez

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Mexico

A migrant childhood told with devastating simplicity.

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The Dark Child

Camara Laye

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Guinea

A Guinea childhood, written in exile knowing it's gone.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

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Netherlands

Thirteen, in hiding, writing to stay real.

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The First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez

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DIY your identity.

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The Freedom Writers Diary

Erin Gruwell & The Freedom Writers

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Long Beach. 150 students. 150 diaries. All of it true.

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The Giver

Lois Lowry

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Memory is what they banned. He got it anyway.

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