Contemporary Realistic Fiction 9-12 |
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Author Name |
Title |
Illustrator |
notes |
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Stork, Francisco |
Marcelo in the Real World |
protagonist with Asperger syndrome, confronts the "real world" in a mail-room summer job |
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Cameron, Peter |
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A novel |
GLBT coming of age novel |
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Morrison, Toni |
Bluest Eye |
sensitive examination of racial, class issues |
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Woodson, Jacqueline |
I Had Not Meant to Tell You This |
Friendship across race & class/abuse |
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The Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
Family, race, GLBT |
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Draper, Sharon |
Copper Sun |
Middle Passage & enslavement |
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de la Pena, Matt |
Mexican White Boy |
class/identity |
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Martinez, Victor |
Parrot in the Oven |
Coming of Age -Mexican American |
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Soto, Gary |
Petty Crimes |
short stories Mexican American |
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Laird, Elizabeth & Namir, Sonia |
A Little Piece of Ground |
Palestinian boys confront occupation forces while trying to make a soccer field |
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Abouet, Marguerite |
Aya |
Clément Oubrerie |
graphic slice-of-life novel about a 19 year old girl living in Cote D'Ivoire in the late 1970s, first in a series |
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Chai, May-Lee |
Dragon Chica |
coming of age novel explores universal issues in the specific context of the Cambodian-American community |
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Ayarbe, Heidi |
Compromised |
Using the scientific method to find her aunt, a teenage runaway teams up with two other runaways, one a ten-year-old with Tourette Syndrome, and finds a family |
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Morrison, Toni |
The Bluest Eye |
Racism, gender and self acceptance |
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Anzaldua, Gloria |
La Frontera: Borderlands |
examination of the reality of life on the border between texas and mexico |
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Hurston, Zora Neale |
Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories |
Short Stories |
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