Non-Western and Hispanic Authors -------------------------------- compiled by Sharon Lux (slux@home.com) from posts made to YALSA-BK, August 2000 SHORT STORIES Gallo, Donald R., ed. Join In: Multiethnic Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults. Delacorte Press, 1993 INDIAN Rana, Indi. The Roller Birds of Rampur. Holt, 1993 An Indian teenager raised in England returns to India to find her identity. Desai, Anita. Diamond Dust: Stories. Houghton Mifflin, 2000 The tales here travel from India to the American Northeast, deftly exploring the tensions between social obligation and personal independence, between old traditions and new. Staples. Suzanne. Shiva's Fire. Farrar, 2000 In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art. AFRICAN Naidoo, Beverly. No Turning Back: a novel of South Africa. HarperCollins, 1997 When the abuse at home becomes too much for twelve-year-old Sipho, he runs away to the streets of Johannesburg and learns to survive in the post-apartheid world. ____. Journey to Jo'burg: a South African Story. Lippincott, 1985 Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions prevalent among blacks in South Africa thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers to find her in Johannesburg. Bedford, Simi. Yoruba Girl Dancing. Viking, 1991 When Remi is torn from her snug, loving family in Nigeria and sent to a stodgy boarding school in England, she slowly learns to use her cultural difference to her advantage. Quintana, Anton. (Dutch) Baboon King. Walker, 1999 Son of a Kikuyu mother and a Masai herdsman father, Morengaru the hunter lives on the edges of tribal society until an actual banishment forces him to make a life for himself among a troop of baboons. ASIAN Carlson, Lori, ed. American Eyes: new Asian-American short stories for young adults. Holt, 1994 These ten stories reflect the conflict Asian Americans face in balancing an ancient heritage and an unknown future. Wu, Priscilla. The Abacus Contest. Fulcrum, 1996 In a small city in southern Taiwan, six children with a traditional background experience different changes in their outlook. Korean Kim, Helen. Long Season of Rain. Holt, 1996 When an orphan boy comes to live with her family, eleven-year-old Junehee begins to realize that the demands placed on Korean women can destroy their lives. (Korea in the 1960s) Balgassi, Haemi. Tae's Sonata. Clarion, 1997 Tae, a Korean American eighth grader, tries to sort out her feelings when she is assigned a popular cute boy as a partner for a school report and later has a falling out with her best friend. Kim, Elizabeth. Ten Thousand Sorrows. Doublday, 2000 (Non-Fiction) The extraordinary journey of a Korean war orphan raised in the US by a Fundamentalist pastor and his wife. Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Houghton Mifflin, 1991 A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. Lee, Marie. Necessary Roughness. Harper Collins, 1996 Sixteen-year-old Korean American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father. CHINESE Nakioka, Lensey. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break. Delacorte, 1999 Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound. Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella. Delacorte, 1999 (Non-Fiction) After her mother dies giving birth to her, Adeline's siblings, who consider her bad luck, scapegoat her, and her wealthy father and vain stepmother deprive her of friends and send her away to school. Yep, Lawrence. Star Fisher. Morrow, 1991 Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s Jiang, Ji-Li. Red Scarf Girl. HarperCollins, 1997 Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. Japanese Mori, Kyoko. Shizuko's Daughter. Holt, 1993 After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy. Yamanaka, Lois-Ann. Name Me Nobody. Hyperion, 1999. Emi-Lou has a weight problem, a lesbian girlfriend, and an inability to figure out who she is as she struggles through her middle school years in Hawaii. Yumoto, Kasumi. The Spring Tone. Farrar, 1999 Plagued by headaches and nightmares, Tomomi tries to make sense of her grandmother's death, her little brother's obsession with saving sick and abandoned cats, and her fear that she is becoming a monster. Vietnamese Hayslip. Le Ly. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Doubleday, 1989 A Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace. Cambodian Ho, Minfong. Clay Marble. Farrar, 1991 In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family. Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father. HarperCollins, 2000. A childhood survivor of the Pol Pot regime recounts her life on the run-from Cambodia to Vietnam to America-between 1975-1980. JEWISH/ARABIC Almagor, Gila. Under the Domin Tree. Simon & Schuster, 1995. Chronicles the joys and troubles experienced by three teenagers (some Holocaust survivors) living at an Israeli youth settlement in 1953. Hicyilmaz, Gaye. Smiling for Strangers. Farrar, 2000 During the war, fourteen-year-old Nina flees from her village in Yugoslavia, armed only with some letters and a photograph, to search for an old friend of her mother's in England. ____. The Frozen Waterfall. Farrar ,1994 When she finally joins her father and brothers in their new home in Switzerland, a twelve-year-old Turkish girl encounters the tremendous difficulty of living in a foreign country without knowing the language and customs. Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. Simon & Schuster, 1997 When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians. HISPANIC (Mexican, Cuban, Guatemalan, Latin, Dominican, American, & Puerto Rican) Ada, Alma Flor. Under the royal palms : a childhood in Cuba. Atheneum Books, 1998. Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless me, Ultima. Quinto Sol, 1972. ______________. My land sings : stories from the Rio Grande. Morrow Junior Books, 1999. Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia girls lost their accent. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Castaneda, Omar. Among the volcanoes. Lodestar, 1991. _______________. Imagining Isabel. (sequel) Lodestar, 1994. Cisneros, Sandra. House on Mango Street. Vintage Books, 1991. Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. Knopf, 1992. Hijuelos, Oscar. Mambo kings play songs of love. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989. Jenkins, Lyll Bercerra de. Honorable prison. Dutton, 1988. Jimenez, Francisco. The Circuit : stories from the life of a migrant child. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the oven : mi vida : a novel. HarperCollins, 1996. Mohr, Nicholasa. Nilda : a novel. Harper & Row, 1973. _______________. Magic shell. Scholastic, 1995. Sanchez, Thomas. Zoot-suit murders. Dutton, 1978. Santiago, Esmeralda. When I was Puerto Rican. Addison-Wesley, 1993. Soto, Gary. Baseball in April & other stories. Harcourt Brace, 1990. __________. Buried onions. Harcourt Brace, 1997. Urrea, Louis Alberto. In search of snow. HarperCollins, 1994. Vea, Alfredo. La Maravilla. Dutton, 1993. REFERENCE Caribbean Women Writers, ed. By Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1997. Hispanic-American Writers, ed. By Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998.