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Cultural Perspectives
This is a list of fiction and non-fiction from different cultural perspectives, suitable for NCEA wide reading 8088 and/or 12905.
Please note: These books will need to be assessed to determine if they are suitable for Levels 1, 2 or 3.
FICTION
Please note: These books will need to be assessed to determine if they are suitable for Levels 1, 2 or 3.
FICTION
| Abdel-Fattah, Randa | Does my head look big in this |
| Abdel-Fattah, Randa | Ten things I hate about me |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Purple Hibiscus |
| Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi | Half of a yellow sun |
| Alsanea, Rajaa | Girls of Riyadh |
| Allende, Isabel | Forest of the Pygmies |
| Alterio, Maxine | Ribbons of grace |
| Al-Windawi, T. | Thura’s diary |
| Amirrezvani, Anita | The blood of flowers |
| Baillie, Allan | The China coin |
| Baillie, Allan | A taste of cockroach (short stories) |
| Baillie, Allan | Treasure hunters |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | One more river |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Stealing Stacey |
| Bat-Ami, Miriam | Two suns in the sky |
| Bloom, Valerie | Surprising Joy |
| Booth, Martin | Music on the bamboo radio |
| Bosse, Malcolm J. | Ganesh |
| Bradman, Tony (ed.) | Skin deep (short stories) |
| Breslin, Theresa | Divided City |
| Budhos, Marina Tamar | Ask me no questions |
| Carmi, Daniella | Samir and Yonatan |
| Carter, Forrester | The education of little tree |
| Chase, Diana | No more borders for Josef |
| Cheng, Andrea | Marika |
| Clinton, Cathryn | A Stone in my hand |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the thousand paper cranes |
| Collins, Pat Lowery | Fattening hut |
| Cook, J. | An Iranian mosaic |
| Courtenay, Bryce | The power of one |
| Crew, Gary | Strange objects |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963 |
| D’Adamo, Francesco | Iqbal |
| Desai, Anita | Fasting, feasting |
| Desai, Anita | Village by the sea |
| Desai, Kiran | The inheritance of loss |
| Dorros, Arthur | Under the sun |
| Ellis, Deborah | Mud city |
| Ellis, Deborah | Parvana |
| Ellis, Deborah | Parvana’s journey |
| Ellis, Deborah | The heaven shop |
| Ellis, Deborah | Diego’s pride |
| Ellis, Deborah | Diego, run! |
| Ellis, Deborah | A company of fools |
| Ellis, Deborah | Shauzia |
| Ellis, Deborah and Walters, Eric | Bifocal |
| Erian, Alicia | Towelhead |
| Evans, Alwyn | Walk in my shoes |
| Figiel, Sia | They who do not grieve |
| Figiel, sia | Where we once belonged |
| Flynn, W. | Escaping paradise |
| Fugard, Athol | Tsotsi |
| Fusillo, Archimdede | The Dons |
| Gallo, Donald R. (ed.) | First crossing : stories about teen immigrants |
| Gleeson, Libby | Mahtab’s story |
| Gleitzman, Morris | Girl undergroung |
| Gleitzman, Morris | Boy overboard |
| Gleitzman, Morris | Once |
| Grindley, Sally | Spilled Water |
| Going, Kelly | The liberation of Gabriel King |
| Golden, Arthur | Memoirs of a geisha |
| Guene, Faiza | Just like tomorrow |
| Halberstam, Gaby | Blue sky freedom |
| Hamilton, Masha | The camel bookmobile |
| Harris, Christine | Baptism of fire |
| Harris, Christine | Fortune cookies (short stories) |
| Hawke, Rosanne | Borderland |
| Hawke, Rosanne | Soraya the storyteller |
| Head, Bessie | The collector of treasures (short stories) |
| Hendry, Frances Mary | Chandra |
| Hesse, Karen | Witness |
| Hicyilmaz, Gaye | The frozen waterfall |
| Hidier, Tanuja Desai | Born confused |
| Ho, Minfong | Rice without rain |
| Ho, Minfong | The stone goddess |
| Hoffmeyer, Dianne | The waterbearer |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The kite runner |
| Hosseini, Khaled | A thousand splendid suns |
| Houston, Julia | New boy |
| Jansen, Hanna | Over a thousand hills I walk with you |
| Jose, Nicholas | Avenue of eternal peace |
| Ishiguro, Kauzo | Never let me go |
| Iweala, Uzodinma | Beasts of no nation |
| Jones, Carol | Goddess of cool |
| Jones, Lloyd | Mister Pip |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | Weedflower |
| Kaye, M.M. | The far pavilions |
| Keller, Nora Okja | Fox girl |
| Kessler, Cristina | Our secret, Siri Aang |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Pigs in heaven |
| Kneubuhl, Lemanatele M. | The smell of the moon |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of maladies (short stories) |
| Laird, Elizabeth | A little piece of ground |
| Laird, Elizabeth | The garbage king |
| Laird, Elizabeth | Kiss the dust |
| Lay, Graeme | Leaving one-foot island |
| Lay, Graeme | Return to one-foot island |
| Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird |
| Lewis, Richard | The flame tree |
| Lormer, Kathryn | The spare room |
| Lowe, Pat | Feeling the heat |
| Maas, Sharon | The speech of angels |
| Mah, Adeline Yen | Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society |
| Mankell, Henning | Secrets in the fire |
| Manns, Nick | Dead negative |
| Marchetta, Melina | Looking for Alibrandi |
| Marchetta, Melina | Saving Francesca |
| Marks, Nadia | Bitter Sweet |
| Martell, Yann | Life of Pi |
| Mason, Prue | Camel rider |
| Mason, Sophie | The tiger |
| Matar, Hisham | In the country of men |
| McCarthy, Maureen | In between |
| McCormick, Patricia | Sold |
| McDonald, Meme and Pryor, B.M. | Njunjul the sun |
| Mead, Alice | Swimming to America |
| Monk, Scott | Boyz r us |
| Montano, Josie | Wogaluccis |
| Morrison, Paul | Wondrous oblivion |
| Murray, Brendan | Tev |
| Myers, Walter Dean | 145th street (short stories) |
| Na, An | A step from heaven |
| Naidoo, Beverley | Chain of Fire |
| Naidoo, Beverley | No turning back |
| Naidoo, Beverley | The other side of truth |
| Naidoo, Beverley | Out of bounds (short stories) |
| Nair, Preethi | One hundred shades of white |
| Namioka, Lensey | Ties that bind, ties that break |
| Namioka, Lensey | An ocean apart, a world away |
| Ng, Lillian | Silver sister |
| O’Connor, Tom | Tides of Kawhia |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the emperor was divine |
| Park, Linda Sue | When my name was Keoko |
| Perkins, Mitali | Monsoon summer |
| Picoult, Jodi | Plain truth |
| Provoost, Anne | Falling |
| Quivooy, Maartje | Right as rain |
| Rai, Bali | The last taboo |
| Rai, Bali | Rani and Sukh |
| Rai, Bali | (Un)arranged marriage |
| Ridden, Brian | Sweet tea |
| Rifa’I, Amal and Ainbinder, Odelia | We just want to live here |
| Rippin, Sally | Chenxi and the foreigner |
| Rong, Jiang | Wolf Totem |
| Roy, Arundhati | The god of small things |
| Rushdie, Salman | Midnight’s children |
| Satrapi, M. | Persepolis |
| Savvides, Irini | Willow tree and Olive |
| Savvides, Irini | Sky legs |
| Seth, Vikram | A suitable boy |
| Sheth, Kashmira | Boys without names |
| Sheth, Kashmira | Koyal dark, mango sweet |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Shabanu :daughter of the wind |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Haveli |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Shiva’s fire |
| Staples, Suzanne Fisher | Under the persimmon tree |
| Starke, Ruth | Nips XI |
| Starke, Ruth | Nips go national |
| Starke, Ruth | Orphans of the Queen |
| Stratton, Allan | Chanda’s secrets |
| Swarup, Vikas | Q & A |
| Tan, Amy | The bonesetter’s daughter |
| Tan, Amy | The hundred secret senses |
| Tan, Amy | The kitchen god’s wife |
| Tan, Amy | Saving fish from drowning |
| Taylor, Mildred | Roll of thunder, hear my cry |
| Tolbert, Steve | Channeary |
| Tolbert, Steve | Escape to Kalimantan |
| Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta | Motherland |
| Volponi, Paul | Black and white |
| Volponi, Paul | Rooftop |
| Vonda, Josef | No-name bird |
| Walker, Alice | The color purple |
| Watts, Irene N. | Finding Sophie |
| Wendt, Albert | The best of Albert Wendt short stories |
| Wilkinson, Carole | Dragonkeeper |
| Wilkinson, Carole | Dragon moon |
| Wong, Eva | Chinatown girl |
| Wu, Fan | February flowers |
| Ye, Ting-xing | Throwaway daughter |
| Yoo, David | Girls for breakfast |
| Young, Karen Romano | Cobwebs |
| Zephaniah, Benjamin | Refugee boy |
NON FICTION
| Azadi, Sousan | Out of Iran |
| Chang, Jung | Wild Swans |
| Chong, Denise | The girl in the picture |
| Chong, Denise | I have in my arms both ways |
| Chrssides, Helen | A different light |
| Cinxin, Li | Mao’s last dancer |
| Dire, Waris | Desert dawn |
| Dire, Waris | Desert flower |
| Downer, Lesley | Geisha |
| Durrani, Tehmina | My feudal lord |
| Ellis, Deborah | Three wishes |
| Farmaian, Sattareh Farman | Daughter of Persia |
| Hofmann, Corinne | White Masai |
| Ip, Manying | Home away from home |
| Jamal, N. and Chandab, T. | The glory garage : growing up Lebanese muslim … |
| Kanal, Borany | Borany’s story |
| Koolmees, Jill | My Desert Kingdom |
| Latifa | My forbidden face |
| McPhedran, Colin | White butterflies |
| Mah, Adeline Yen | Chinese cinderella : the secret story of an … |
| Mah, Adeline Yen | Falling leaves |
| Mahmoody, Betty | Not without my daughter’ |
| Makler, Irris | Our woman in Kabul |
| Mandela, Nelson | Long walk to freedom |
| Mattingley, Christobel | No guns for Asmir |
| Mattingley, Christobel | Asmir in Vienna |
| Mattingley, Christobel | Escape from Sarajevo |
| Mazari, Najaf and Hillman, Robert | The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif |
| Moaveni, Azadeh | Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian … |
| Muhsen, Zana | Sold : a story of modern day slavery |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran |
| Nathan, Susan | Other side of Israel |
| Nazer, Mende | Slave |
| Ningkun, Wu | A single tear |
| Oufkir, Malika | La Prisonniere : twenty years in a desert gaol |
| Rodriguez, Deborah | The Kabul beauty school |
| Sasson, Jean | Mayada : daughter of Iraq |
| Sasson, Jean | Princess |
| Seierstad, Asne | The bookseller of Kabul |
| Xinran | The good women of China |
| Xinran | Sky burial |
| Yan, Ma | Dairy of Ma Yan : the daily life of a Chinese … |
| Zenatti, Valerie | When I was a soldier |
| Zoya | Zoya’s story : an afghan woman’s struggle … |
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The rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman
Traces the journey of an Afghani refugee from his early life as a shepherd in Afghanistan, forced exile by the Taliban, incarceration in an Australian detention centre and finally to freedom.
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