World Voices: Contemporary International Novels

Windows to the World

(written in English, set internationally)


YF Almond               Raven Summer (UK)
YF Alvarez               How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents (Dominican Republic)
YF Bach                  Girl From Mars (German)
YF Carter                The Shepherd's Granddaughter (Israel)
YF Christopher         Stolen (New Zealand)
YF Converse            Subway Girl (Hong Kong)
YF Crew                  Children of the River (Cambodia)
YF De Goldi             The 10 PM Question (New Zealand)
YF Donaldson         Running on the Tracks (UK)
YF Dowd                 The London Eye Mystery (UK)
YF Ellis                    The Breadwinner (Afghanistan)
YF Farish                 The Good Braider (Sudan)
YF Herrick                 Cold Skin (UK)
YF Holt                    Keeper of the Night (Guam)
Y/JF Kahn                Wanting More (Afghanistan)
YF Levine                 Freefall (Israel)
YF Marchetta            Saving Francesca (Australia)
YF Marsden                Letters from the Inside (Australia)
YF Marston              Santa Claus in Baghdad and other stories about teens in the Arab world
YF McKay                 Thunder over Kandahar
YF McCormick           Sold (Nepal/India)
YF Michael               City Boy (Malawi)
YF Moriarty                The Year of Secret Assignments (series) (Australia)
YF Mordecai             Blue Mountain Trouble (Jamaica)
YF Murray                How to Make a Bird (Australia)
YF Nadin                 Wonderland (UK)
YF Newbury             Flightsend (Canada)
YF Paterson             The Day of the Pelican (Albania)
YF Pelligrino             Journey of Dreams (Guatemala)
YF Perkins                Bamboo People (Burma)
YF Power                This Thing Called the Future (South Africa)
YF Stratton             Chandra's Secret (sub-Saharan Africa)
YF Valentine            Broken Soup (England)
YF Van De Ruit        Spud (South Africa)

Y 371.822 Mortensen   Three Cups of Tea (Pakistan)
Y 951.05 JIANG         Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (China)
Y 996.4BEAH            A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Seirra Leone)

YB Barakat               Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood
YB Kamara               Bite of the Mango   

Y/Graph                    Town Boy (Malaysia)



Translations

YF Bondoux                Life as it Comes (France)
YF De Vigan                No and Me (France)
YF Combres                Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda (French)
YF Gringas                  Pieces of Me (French)
YF Teller                    Nothing (Danish)
YF Yoshimoto              Kitchen (Japanese)

Y/SF Uehashi               Moribito (series) (Japanese)

Y/CL Garcia                 Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish/Columbia)


Americans Abroad

YF Headley             North of Beautiful (in China)
YF Jensen               Falling in Love with English Boys (in England)
YF Johnson             Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes (in Europe)
YF Johnson              The Last Little Blue Envelope (in Europe)
Y/JF L'Engle            And Both Were Young (in Switzerland)             
YF Perkins              Anna and the French Kiss (in France)
YF Nye                  Habibi (Israel)
YF Silag                 Beautiful Americans (in France) (series)











See Also:
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
Around the World in 80 Books