Lines we cross by Abdel-Fattah, Randa 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 040204 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.8 UG RC: 5.3 9-12 Lexile: 690 HL

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Refugees - Fiction Immigration and emigration - Fiction Muslims - Australia - Fiction Family life - Australia - Fiction Love - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction Australia - Fiction

Summary: Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time.

Orange for the sunsets by Athaide, Tina 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2019)

BTSB #: 074760 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Amin, Idi,|d1925-2003 - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Social classes - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction East Indians - Uganda - Fiction Family life - Uganda - Fiction Forced migration - Uganda - Fiction Uganda - History|y1971-1979 - Fiction

Summary: In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.

Orange for the sunsets by Athaide, Tina 

BTSB Prebound(HarperCollins, 2019)

BTSB #: 074780 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG RC: 3.4 3-5 Lexile: 600

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Amin, Idi,|d1925-2003 - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Social classes - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction East Indians - Uganda - Fiction Family life - Uganda - Fiction Forced migration - Uganda - Fiction Uganda - History|y1971-1979 - Fiction

Summary: In alternating voices, friends Asha and Yesofu, one Indian and one African, find their world turned upside-down when Idi Amin decides to expel Asian Indians from Uganda in 1972.

Vine basket by La Valley, Josanne 

BTSB Prebound(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)

BTSB #: 536766 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 5 MG RC: 4.5 6-8 Lexile: 740 F&P: Z

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Basket making - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Farm life - China - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction Uighur (Turkic people) - Fiction China - Fiction

Summary: Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her father's opposition.

Weight of our sky by Hanna Alkaf 

Paperback(Salaam Reads, 2021)

BTSB #: 051626 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.7 UG Lexile: 830 F&P: Z+

Genres: Multicultural Family Life Historical Fiction

Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Race riots - Fiction Malays (Asian people) - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction

Summary: Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

Wishing upon the same stars by Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2022)

BTSB #: 328367 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG

Genres: Multicultural Family Life

Subjects: Arab Americans - Fiction Moving - Fiction Ethnic relations - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction Family life - Texas - Fiction Friendship - Fiction San Antonio (Tex.) - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native of Jerusalem.