Africa is My Home: A Child of the Amistad - Monica Edinger [African American slave trade]
Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor [Nigeria, magical]
Auma’s Long Run - Eucabeth Odhiambo [Kenya]
Benny & Omar - Eoin Colfer [Tunisia]
Home of the Brave - Katherine Applegate [Kenyan American]
Laugh with the Moon - Shana Burg [Malawi]
A Long Walk to Water - Linda Sue Park [Sudan]
Lost Girl Found - Leah Bassoff [Sudan]
Mosquitoes Don’t Bite Me - Pendred Noyce [Kenyan American]
The Other Side of Truth - Beverley Naidoo [Nigeria]
The Red Pencil - Andrea Davis Pinkney [Sudan]
So Much for Democracy - Kari Jones [Ghana]
Bamboo People - Mitali Perkins [Burma/Myanmar]
Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier [Indian American]
Chained - Lynne Kelly [India]
The Conch Bearer - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [India, magical]
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam - Cynthia Kadohata [Vietnam]
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn - Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler [Japan]
The Grand Plan to Fix Everything - Uma Krishnaswami [India]
Heart of a Samurai - Margie Preus [Japan]
In the Shadow of the Sun - Anne Sibley O’Brien [North Korea]
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Betty Bao Lord [Chinese American]
Inside Out & Back Again - Thanhha Lai [Vietnam]
Kira-Kira - Cynthia Kadohata [Japanese American]
Listen, Slowly - Thanhha Lai [Vietnamese American]
A Million Shades of Gray - Cynthia Kadohata [Vietnam]
The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani [India]
No Ordinary Day - Deborah Ellis [India]
Project Mulberry - Linda Sue Park [Korean American]
Red Scarf Girl - Ji Li Jiang [China, Autobiography]
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Eleanor Coerr [Japan]
A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park [Korea]
Sold - Patricia McCormick [Nepal]
A Step From Heaven - An Na [Korean American]
The Thing About Luck - Cynthia Kadohata [Japanese American]
Ties That Bind, Ties That Break - Lensey Namioka [China]
Tua and the Elephant - R.P. Harris [Thailand]
The Unforgotten Coat - Frank Cottrell Boyce [Mongolia]
What Elephants Know - Eric Dinerstein [Nepal]
When My Name was Keoko - Linda Sue Park [Korea]
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Grace Lin [Chinese, Fairy tales]
The Island at the End of Everything - Kiran Millwood Hargrave [Philippines]
Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O’Dell [Pacific Islands]
The Land of Forgotten Girls - Erin Entrada Kelly [Filipino American]
Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera [New Zealand - Maori]
Half a World Away - Cynthia Kadohata [Kazakhstan]
The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid - Colin Meloy [France]
Historical stories set in European countries can mostly be found on the Historical Fiction list.
The Breadwinner - Deborah Ellis [Afghanistan]
The Cat at the Wall - Deborah Ellis [Israel/Palestine]
The Green Bicycle - Haifaa Al Mansour [Saudi Arabia]
It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel - Firoozeh Dumas [Iranian American]
One Half from the East - Nadia Hashimi [Afghanistan]
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind - Suzanne Fisher Staples [Pakistan]
Shooting Kabul - N.H. Senzai [Afghanistan]
*Mexico is also included with Latin America because it matches culturally.
Africa is My Home: A Child of the Amistad - Monica Edinger [African American slave trade]
The Birchbark House - Louise Erdrich [Native American]
Code Talker - Joseph Bruchac [Native American]
Crossing the Wire - Will Hobbs [Mexican American]
Gaby, Lost and Found - Angela Cervantes [Honduran-American]
My Basmati Bat Mitzvah - Paula J. Freedman [Indian-Jewish American]
My Name is Not Easy - Debby Dahl Edwardson [Native American]
Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikaelsen [Native American]
Written in Stone - Rosanne Parry [Native American]
The Color of My Words - Lynn Joseph [Dominican Republic]
Crossing the Wire - Will Hobbs [Mexico]
The Dreamer - Pam Muñoz Ryan [Chile]
Esperanza Rising - Pam Muñoz Ryan [Mexican American]
Gone to Drift - Diana McCaulay [Jamaica]
Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson [Brazil]
The Only Road - Alexandra Diaz [Guatemala]
Serafina’s Promise - Ann E. Burg [Haiti]
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal - Margarita Engle [Panama]
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba - Margarita Engle [Cuba]