Books like The Rainbow Troops
On a tin-mining island in Indonesia, ten poor children and two devoted teachers keep a crumbling Muslim village school alive against the threat of closure.
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Wonder
August Pullman, a ten-year-old boy born with a severe facial difference, has always been taught at home, and when he starts fifth grade at a private school in Manhattan, he has to convince his classmates that he is an ordinary kid.
We Need New Names
Darling, ten, roams a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise with her friends, stealing guavas, until she goes to live with her aunt in Michigan.
Where the Heart Is
Novalee Nation, seventeen and seven months pregnant, is left by her boyfriend at a Walmart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, and secretly makes the store her home.
A Man Called Ove
A curmudgeonly old widower whose only joy is enforcing neighbourhood rules is slowly redeemed by the immigrant family that moves in next door.
Ellen Foster
Eleven-year-old Ellen tells how she got through her mother's death and her father's neglect in rural North Carolina, and how she went looking for a new family and took its name.
True Biz
At the River Valley School for the Deaf, Charlie, a teenager whose cochlear implant has never worked well, arrives late in her schooling, February, the hearing headmistress, fights to keep the school open, and Austin, a student from a deaf family, faces change at home.
The Harp in the South
The Darcys, a poor Irish Catholic family, live in a crowded terrace in Surry Hills in Sydney in the 1940s, where Roie, the elder daughter, is growing up.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not ready to come out, but when a classmate finds his emails to Blue, an anonymous boy at school he has fallen for, Simon is blackmailed into helping the classmate win over one of his friends.
A Dog's Purpose
A dog born to a feral mother lives several lives in a row, each time as a different dog with a different family, and while he is Bailey, a golden retriever who belongs to a boy named Ethan, he begins to wonder what all these lives are for.
Sinister Street
Michael Fane, born in the 1880s to a mother who is often away and a father he never sees, grows up in Kensington with his sister and their nurse, and goes on to school in West London.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist growing up poor on the Spokane Indian Reservation, decides to transfer to the all-white farm-town high school twenty-two miles away, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.