Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and works in a laurndry. Moon Shadow has never met him. But he soon grows to love and repect his father, a man of genius with a fabulous dream. With Moon Shadow’s help, Windrider is willing to endure and overcome his challenges.

Against the Storm by Gaye Hicyilmaz

For eleven-year-old Mehmet, spring in his tiny Turkish village with the fruit trees in bloom is the most beautiful time of the year. How could anybody possibly be thinking of leaving? But leave his family he does, to try for a better living in the bustling city of Ankara. With help and friendship of Muhlis, a streetwise young orphan, and the strength of his own will, Mahemt is determined to find a better life.

Cry, The Beloved Country By Alan Paton

A deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice.

Children Of The River by Linda Crew

Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt’s family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child. Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be “a good Cambodian girl” at home. Are her hopes for happiness and a new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?