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Share a Little Culture

Share a Little Culture. Find out just a little bit more about everybody else. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini. An unforgettable story of honor, courage and betrayal set in war-torn Afghanistan as two small boys test their friendship to its limits.

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Share a Little Culture

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  1. Share a Little Culture Find out just a little bit more about everybody else

  2. The Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini • An unforgettable story of honor, courage and betrayal set in war-torn Afghanistan as two small boys test their friendship to its limits.

  3. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith • Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe struggles to get the only detective agency run by a woman in Botswana off the ground. • macfilm.com

  4. American Born ChineseGene Luen Yang Three stories/ One single idea. • Jin Wang, son ofChineseimmigrants, just wants to fit in. • The Monkey King does everything in his power to become a Great Sage, Equal of Heaven. • Meet Danny and his cousin Chin-Kee, every horribleChinesestereotype.

  5. MAUSArt Spiegelman • Here is the full story of the author’s father's history as a Jewish survivor of the World War II Holocaust. The book’s humanoid characters have animal heads. All the Jews have mice heads; the Germans are cats; the Americans, dogs.

  6. China BoyGus Lee • Kai Ting, only son of high-born Chinese immigrants fleeing the Communism, grows up poor in the San Francisco where his family had relocated. Survival in this urban jungle is made all the more difficult for him by a severe eyesight problem and "a body that made Tinker Bell look ruthless."

  7. Buried Onions Gary Soto • When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.

  8. Bless Me, Ultima Rudolofo Anaya • Antonio is torn between his father's Spanish side of the family who ride on the llano and his mother's Indian relations who farm the fields. His life is forever altered when his aunt Ultima, a curandera (healer), comes to live with the family in New Mexico.

  9. PersepolisMarjane Satrapi • This is the story of a young girl's life under the Islamic Revolution. Descended from the last Emperor of Iran, Satrapi is nine when fundamentalist rebels overthrow the Shah.

  10. The Road of the DeadKevin Brooks • Ruben Ford, 14, sitting in his father's junkyard in London knows--knows--that his older sister, Rachel, has been raped and murdered. Perhaps it is his Gypsy blood that gives him second sight. He knows, for instance, that his ice-cold brother, Cole, is going to get into trouble when he decides to go to bring Rachel’s body home.

  11. GYPSIES/ Irish Travelers • Ancient history • Traveled from Middle East to Europe • Persecuted for a thousand years • Part of Hitler’s “Final Solution”

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