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Teens Around the World: Fiction About International Teens
Have you always longed to travel? Want to know how teens in other parts of the world live? Try one of these fiction titles and travel the globe without leaving your living room.
Click the title below to see if the book is in the library at this time.
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Dowd, Siobhan
A Swift Pure Cry
Coolbar, Ireland, is a village of secrets and Shell is not about to reveal hers until suspicion falls on
the wrong person.
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Ellis, Deborah
I Am a Taxi
Living with his family in a prison in Bolivia, twelve-year-old Diego does his best to live a normal life. But
when his mother receives additional fines, Diego risks everything to earn quick money.
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Laird, Elizabeth
A Little Piece of Ground
During the Israeli occupation of Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine, twelve-year-old Karim and his friends create
a secret place for themselves where they can momentarily forget the horrors of war.
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Moeyaert, Bart
Dani Bennoni: Long May He Live
Belgium, summer of 1939: with his brother serving in the military, ten-year-old Bing asks his neighbor Dani
to repay a debt by teaching him to play soccer. When Dani refuses, Bing and his friend Lenny set out to get revenge.
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Nanji, Shenaaz
Child of Dandelions
In 1972, President Idi Amin declares that all foreign Indians must leave Uganda. Sabine and her wealthy father are
confident that they will not be affected, but as the days tick by, Sabine's mother's doubts become more and
more real.
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Nilsson, Per
You & You & You
Young Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation,
touches the lives of all around him. Translated from Swedish.
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Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi
Shadow Speaker
In West Africa in 2070, after "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous
journey across the Sahara to find her father's killer.
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Ruby, Lois
Shanghai Shadows
From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China: young Ilse by remaining optimistic,
her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her
father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood.
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Stratton, Allan
Chanda's Wars
Chanda Kabelo, a teenaged African girl, must save her younger siblings after they are kidnapped and forced
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List updated July, 2008.
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