Red Sand Blue Sky

Cathy Applegate

Li Lun, Lad of Courage (A Newbery Honor book)

Carolyn Treffinger

Ali and the Golden Eagle

Wayne Grover

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry

Burying the Sun (Angel on the Square, #3)

Gloria Whelan

The Turning (Angel on the Square, #4)

Gloria Whelan

Water Sky

Jean Craighead George

The Year of the Dog (Pacy, #1)

Grace Lin

Sweet and Sour: Tales from China

Carol Kendall

The Big Wave

Pearl S. Buck

Daughter of the Mountains (Newbery Library, Puffin)

Louise S. Rankin

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Grace Lin

Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters

Lesley M.M. Blume

Rickshaw Girl

Mitali Perkins

The Kite Fighters

Linda Sue Park

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Eugene Yelchin

Call It Courage

Armstrong Sperry

Teresa of Calcutta: Serving the Poorest of the Poor

D. Jeanene Watson

Shadow Spinner

Susan Fletcher

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More

Valerie Worth

The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam (Harper Trophy Book)

Quang Nhuong Huynh

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

Barbara Cohen

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story

Beverley Naidoo

The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

C.S. Lewis

The Master Puppeteer

Katherine Paterson

Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

Ashley Bryan

The Radical Book for Kids: Exploring the Roots and Shoots of Faith

Champ Thornton

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Eleanor Coerr