Parrot in the oven

By Victor Martinez

Manny relates his coming of age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone's struggle. Perico, or parrot, was what Dad called me s...

Picture bride

By Yoshiko Uchida

The Other Side of the Sky

By Farah Ahmedi

Stuck in neutral

By Terry Trueman

Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his fathe...

And the earth did not devour him

By Tomas Rivera

Necessary roughness

By Marie G. Lee

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 relationshi...

The wave

By Todd Strasser

Dying to cross

By Jorge Ramos

The house of Dies Drear

By Virginia Hamilton

An African American family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home in Ohio which was once an important station on the Underground Railroad.

Speak

By Laurie Halse Anderson

A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.