Foreign Lands
If you can’t afford to travel, just read one of these teen books. It will make you feel like you’re in a whole different world…
 Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie PerkinsWhen Anna’s romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
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 Chanda’s Secrets – Allan StrattonWhen Chanda’s younger sister dies of AIDS, she has to find the strength to deal with the shame and prejudice she receives from other people in her South African town |
 Sold – Patricia McCormickAfter being taken away from her family and her small village in Nepal, 13-year-old Lakshmi is forced to work as a prostitute. Can she ever regain her freedom? |
 S.A.S.S. series – Various AuthorsJoin the Students Across the Seven Seas on their globe-trotting voyages and visit a different country in each book! |
 Diary of a Chav – Grace DentCan Shiraz survive a new school, win the heart of Wesley Barrington Bains II, and rise above her trashy, working class “chav” image, or is she doomed to be seen as a superchav forever? |
 Running on the Cracks — Julia DonaldsonAfter her parents are killed in an accident, English teenager Leonora Watts-Chan runs away to Glasgow, Scotland, to find her Chinese grandparents. |
 Beneath my Mother’s Feet — Amjed QamarWhen her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny planned for her. |
 Secret Keeper — Mitali PerkinsWhen Ashi’s father goes to New York to try to make a new life for his family, she must stay behind in Calcutta, India with her extended family and observe an old-fashioned way of life which she despises. |
 Zazoo – Richard MosherA 13-year-old Vietnamese orphan raised in rural France by her aging “Grande Pierre” learns about life, death and love. |
 Postcards From No Man’s Land – Aiden ChambersIn two intertwining stories, 17-year-old Jacob visits Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother, and 19-year-old Geertrui relates her experiences in German-occupied Holland during World War II. |
 Beautiful Americans – Lucy SilagFour high school students on a study abroad program in Paris hide secrets, party, and revel in the glamour of the city, until one of them disappears. |
