Below are a few multicultural titles that you may be interested in reading. Many of these titles are available at the Seattle Public Library. You could probably purchase them also at the University Bookstore, mostly in the Children's section.
 

TITLE	AUTHOR	# OF PAGES
Children of the River. Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying her life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.	Crew	213
Where the River Runs: A Portrait of a Refugee Family. Describes the experiences of a family of Cambodian refugees as they learn to adjust to a different way of life in the United States while holding on to their ethnic heritage.	Graff	71
The Clay Marble.  Dara and her family flee Cambodia in the early 1980s and settle in the refugee camps in Thailand.  The struggle of growing up amidst fighting, learning to make a life.	Ho	160
Vatsana's Lucky New Year. Torn between Laotian and American cultures, twelve-year-old Vatsana faces prejudice from a boy at school as she helps her newly arrived Laotian cousin adjust to life in Portland, Oregon.	Gogol	156
Voyage of the Lucky Dragon. A young Vietnamese boy recounts the perils and hardships endured by his family as they journey to Indonesia, Singapore, and finally to Australia seeking political asylum.	Bennett	149
Goodbye Vietnam.  Mai and her family escape from Vietnam aboard a tiny overcrowded boat.  The story chronicles their tough journey to Hong Kong.	Whelan	135
Year of Impossible Goodbyes. Sookan, her brother, and mother escape a war-torn North Korea and cross the border to meet their father in South Korea.	Choi	150
The Gathering of Pearls. Sookan is now attending college in New York State, far from all her family members and the first and only Korean in that community. How she survives and learns the value of her own culture is a heartwarming story.	Choi	163
Memories of My Ghost Brother. Korean autobiographical fiction.	Fenkl	271
Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear. Recently arrived in Seattle from China, musically untalented Yingtao is faced with giving a violin performance to attract new students for his father when he would rather be working on friendships and playing baseball.	Namioka	134
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.  Bandit, a 10-year-old in Shanghai, together with her mother joins her father in Brooklyn in the '40s.Over the year, she learns much about her new home even becoming an avid baseball fan, while learning that she will always be Chinese, too. A real classic!	Lord	169
Her Own Song. A Chinese laundryman in Seattle becomes a helper and confidante to Mellie who learns the truth of her adoption.	Howard	160
It's Crazy to Stay Chinese in Minnesota. A 17-year-old Chinese girl in a Minnesota family treads a balance between the Far East and the Middle West.	Wong-  Telemarque	118
April and the Dragon Lady. Feeling confined by the traditional family attitudes of her strong-willed, manipulative Chinese grandmother, 16-year-old April Chen fights.	Namioka	214
Under the Blood-Red Sun.  Japanese-American Tomikazu lives for baseball and worries about the local bully in Honolulu, but his life is changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.	Salisbury	246
A Jar of Dreams. A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.	Uchida	131
The Necessary Hunger. A modern more adult story of a half-Japanese teenage girl on a basketball team in L.A. who happens to be gay.	Revoyr	365
First Came the Owl. Shy eleven-year-old Nita feels lost when her mother returns from a visit to their home country, Thailand, and plunges into depression, but then Nita miraculously begins to blossom and her shyness disappears.	Richardson	153
Rice without Rain.  Takes place in the countryside of Thailand, describing the revolutionary movement of the 1970s from the point of view of the peasants and university students.	Ho	180
Ali and the Golden Eagle. An American working in Saudi Arabia befriends a boy from a remote village and helps him train an eagle to hunt.	Grover	150
Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and other stories of the Middle East. A collection of 14 stories portraying Arab life from 1930-1990 period in the Middle East.	Abdul-  Baki	217
An Ancient Heritage: The Arab-American Minority.  Discusses the cultural experience of Arab-Americans and the history of Arab immigration to the U.S.	Ashabranner	148
Against the Storm.  Turkey	Hicyilmaz
Once There  was and Twice There wasn't.  Turkish folklore	Walker
Go Up the Road.  A 12-year-old Mexican-American and her family of migrant workers glimpse a more stable way of life and the possibility of sharing it.	Lampman	230
Taking Sides.  Lincoln's mother moves them from an inner-city barrio in San Francisco to a more affluent neighborhood to escape crime, but they encounter prejudice against Hispanic-Americans, especially on Lincoln's basketball team.	Soto	135
New York City, Too Far from Tampa Blues . Hispanic-American	Bethancourt
Maria Luisa.  Her poor knowledge of English is only one of the handicaps experienced by a Spanish-speaking girl from Arizona spending several months with relatives in San Francisco.	Madison	187
A Shepherd Watches, A Shepherd Sings.  Reminiscences of the author's youth as he assists his father, a Basque immigrant, to California with their sheep business.	Irigaray	300
Tales of a Basque Grandmother.  A Basque grandmother tells her grandchildren the traditional tales and legends of their country.	Carpenter	271
I Heard the Owl Call My Name.  A young Episcopalian priest is sent to remote Native American villages in British Columbia where he learns another, older way of life from people whose lives are being changed from the outside.	Craven	159
The Education of Little Tree.  A touching story of a young Cherokee boy raised in nature by his grandparents  in the old traditions.    A movie has been made of this book.	Carter	216
Rite of Passage.  A 15-year-old African-American boy runs away from his new foster family and learns about the tough gang life on the streets.	Wright	115
Jubilee Journey	Meyer
Bizou:  A Novel.	Klein
Follow My Leader.    Twelve-year-old Jimmy is blinded by a firecracker and must learn to do many things all over with the help of a white cane and a guide dog.  An inspiring story of his determination to rejoin Boy Scouts, and his success.	Garfield	191
Apple is My Sign.  The story of the pain and triumphs of growing up deaf in a hearing world.	Riskind	146
Because She is My Friend.  Italian-American	Sirof
An Enemy Among Them.  German-American during the American Revolution.	DeFord

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