First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants

First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants by Donald R. Gallo (Editor)
Stories of recent Mexican, Venezuelan, Kazakh, Chinese, Romanian, Palestinian, Swedish, Korean, Haitian, and Cambodian immigrants reveal what it is like to face prejudice, language barriers, and homesickness along with common teenage feelings and needs.

Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories

Girl Goddess #9: Nine Stories by Francesca Lia Block, Steve Scott (Illustrator)

Nine stories about girl goddesses of every age and shape and color and size, wearing combat boots and spiky hair or dressed all in white. One girl has two moms, another has no mother at all but a strange blue skinned creature that lives in her closet. One is a rock star groupie, another loves dancing and reading poetry and having picnics in the backyard when the moon is full. These are stories about girls discovering that the world is not a simple place and that there is more than one way to live.

Baseball in April and Other Stories

Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

An Island like You: Stories of the Barrio

An Island like You: Stories of the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Twelve stories about young people caught between their Puerto Rican heritage and their American surroundings.