| Does My Head Look Big in This? | Abdel-Fattah, Randa | YA F Abdel-Fattah |
| Year eleven at an exclusive Australian prep school 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. |
| Estrella's Quinceañera | Alegria, Malin | YA F Alegria |
| Estrella's mother and aunt are planning a gaudy, traditional quinceañera for her, even though it is the last thing she wants. |
| Before We Were Free | Alvarez, Julia | YA F Alvarez |
| In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator General Trujillo. |
| The Tequila Worm | Canales, Viola | YA F Canales |
| When Sophia is told that she is the recipient of a special scholarship to an elite boarding school far away from her Texas home, she is both excited and fearful of all the unknowns that lie ahead. |
| The House on Mango Street | Cisneros, Sandra | YA F Cisneros |
| For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness. |
| A Girl Named Disaster | Farmer, Nancy | YA F Farmer |
| While journeying to Zimbabwe, Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits in the process. |
| Shadow Spinner | Fletcher, Susan | YA F Fletcher |
| Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl in the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, gathers stories for Shaharazad that will save the queen's life. |
| Samurai Shortstop | Gratz, Alan | YA F Gratz |
| While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on his baseball game and his relationship with his father. |
| Aleutian Sparrow | Sparrow, Karen | YA F Hesse |
| An Aleutian Islander recounts her suffering during World War II in American internment camps designed to "protect" the population from the invading Japanese. |
| Kira-Kira | Kadohata, Cynthia | YA F Kadohata |
| When Katie’s older sister Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something “kira-kira,” or glittering, in life. |
| The Singing Mountain | Levitin, Sonia | YA F Levitin |
| While traveling in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch decides to stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy, forcing him to make some important decisions about the family and life he is leaving in California. |
| Adem's Cross | Mead, Alice | YA F Mead |
| Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever the life of fourteen-year-old Adem. |
| Touching Spirit Bear | Mikaelsen, Ben | YA F Mikaelsen |
| After his anger erupts into violence, Cole agrees to participate in Native American Circle Justice to avoid going to prison. |
| Slam! | Myers, Walter Dean | YA F Myers |
| "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. |
| Habibi | Nye, Naomi Shihab | YA F Nye |
| When fourteen-year-old Liyanne and her family 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. |
| A Single Shard | Park, Linda Sue | YA F Park |
| Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. |
| Red Glass | Resau, Laura | YA F Resau |
| Sixteen-year-old Sophie, frail and delicate since her premature birth, discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain. |
| Mutiny's Daughter | Rinaldi, Ann | YA F Rinaldi |
| Mutineer Fletcher Christian of the HMS Bounty escapes the massacre on Pitcairn Island and finds his way back to his half-Tahitian daughter Mary. |
| Anahita's Woven Riddle | Sayres, Meghan Nuttall | YA F Sayres |
| In Iran, more than 100 years ago, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers. |
| Rain is Not My Indian Name | Smith, Cynthia Leitich | YA F Smith |
| Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper to cover events at a summer youth camp. |
| Buried Onions | Soto, Gary | YA F Soto |
| When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican-American living in a violence--infested neighborhood of Fresno, California. |
| Shabanu | Staples, Suzanne Fisher | YA F Staples |
| When Shabanu, a girl in Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision or risk the consequences of defying her father’s wishes. |
| Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | YA F Whelan |
| When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. |
| When the Black Girl Sings | Wright, Bil | YA F Wright |
| Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive girls' school where she is the only black student, Lahni feels like an outcast, but after attending a local church where she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice. |
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