Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible is one that immediately jumps to mind and can be read by older teens. A vey refreshing statement filled with things I love to hear, other than rhetorical questions of course. In the sequel to Street Child we turn to Lizzie and Emily who are the sisters from the main character in the previous novel. But it is not be, for the white soldiers who have moved in have other plans for the people and for this land.

But as far as I’m concerned, everything I’ve accomplished grew from the roots of the city and projects and distressed neighborhoods that raised me. Having promised each other that neither of them would leave the other behind, Emily is distraught when she finds out her sister has gone to live with Miss Sarah, the mill owner's daughter. The sprawling housing project comes into view as I make the familiar left turn from Eleventh Avenue onto Sixty-First Street and climb uphill from Manhattan’s west side.Tariro is doing what young girls in Africa do, taking care of her siblings and helping with the crops until the white men come and begin the fight for land and power. Do you think that because we tend the fields and carry babies on our backs that we do not have eyes to see? Now for the first time, the bestselling author of STREET CHILD reveals what happened to his orphaned sisters. And while Far From Home is different in tone and structure to her previous books, it is still writtten in a very engaging and emotional voice and I fell into the story very easily. Pansexual Taylor is a gamer, a little bit punk, White like Cass, and so, so great—but she still can’t help comparing her to Rowan, Cass’ online best friend and role-playing ship partner.

Fourteen-year-old Tariro loves her life, her family and her home under the baobab tree, but all that goodness comes crashing down when a Rhodesian colonialist claims the rich farmland for himself. Tariro's fighting spirit is awoken when her people, the Karanga who have the totem of a lion, are driven off their fertile land.Her work explores themes of identity, belonging, faith, respect for difference and, ultimately, pride in all that makes each of us unique.