Books, including short stories and poetry
They Called Us Enemy by Call Number: INSights 940.531773 T136ISBN: 9781603094504Publication Date: 2019-07-16A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
We Are Not Free by Call Number: INSights 813.6 C515ISBN: 9780358131434Publication Date: 2020Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Barely Missing Everything by Call Number: INSights 813.6 M538ISBN: 9781534404458Publication Date: 2019-03-05... tells the touching story of two teenage buddies, their troubled families, and the injustices they endure as a result of being poor and brown
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Call Number: INSights 813 A4736hoPublication Date: 2005Dominican Republic
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Call Number: INSights 813 A384loISBN: 9780060976248Publication Date: 1994Native American
American Born Chinese by Call Number: INSights 741.5973 Y223amPublication Date: 2007Prize-winning comic book format. Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Call Number: InSights 813 M491ISBN: 9780763671648Publication Date: 2014-08-26One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn't even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she's done to piss her off. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy's life. In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine forced to decide who she really is.
The House on Mango Street by Call Number: INSights 813 C579hoPublication Date: 1994Growing up Mexican-American in Chicago.
Notes of a Crocodile by Call Number: 895.135 Q12no InSightsPublication Date: 2017The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.
The Sun Is Also a Star by Call Number: INSights 813 Y59sPublication Date: 2016An undocumented Jamaican immigrant and a Korean immigrant become friends.. and try to solve their respective challenges.
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Call Number: INSights 813 C579w c. 2Publication Date: 1992Mexican American stories
Saints and Misfits by Call Number: INSights 813 A398saPublication Date: 2017Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life...starring a Muslim teen.
Buck by Call Number: INSights 811.6 A798buPublication Date: 2013From Zimbabwe to the street gangs of Philadelphia, a memoir.
The Trouble Ball : Poetry by Call Number: INSights 811 E771tPublication Date: 2011"... explores the injustices of the world and the tragedy of discrimination."
Mexican American
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Call Number: INSights 813.6 L795ISBN: 9780525555254Publication Date: 2021-01-19Winner of the National Book Award.
America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown
