Marsden, Carolyn

As a storm sweeps in, Tinh's father tells him to tie up their fishing boat but the storm scares him and he runs away, but when the damage to the boat is discovered, Tinh realizes what he must do.

Rosalba, a nine-year-old Mayan girl living in a rural Mexican village, watches as people destroy the environment around her, and when she hears that the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012, Rosalba dreams of an ancient Mayan boy who hints at a way she can help.

A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.

A Chinese American girl torn between her family's traditional values and the more modern ones in her second grade classroom learns that friendship cannot be bought.

The interracial friendship between Blessing and Evan, two boys growing up in a Methodist mission in Southern Rhodesia in the 1960s, is put to the test when a local white farmer is murdered by a group of African independence fighters, and officials at Evan's all-white school begin training the students to take up arms against the Africans.

Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.

When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.

When her grandmother reveals that the daughter that she had given up for adoption is coming from America to visit her Vietnamese family, nine-year-old Binh is convinced that her newly-discovered aunt is wealthy and will take care of all the family's needs.

As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

Mina discovers that she can run faster than her athlete friend Ruth, and becomes confused thinking she must choose between running and friendship.