Different+cultural+perspectives

Suitable for NCEA Level 1 and Level 2   (Maori authors included at end of list) Abdel-Fattah, Randa / Does my head look big in this?  Baillie, Allan / A taste of cockroach (short stories)  Bloom, Valerie / Surprising Joy  Bosse, Malcolm J / Ganesh  Carmi, Daniella / Samir and Yonatan  Chase, Diana / No more borders  Courtenay, Bryce/ Whitethorn (and some others)  Desai, Kiran / The inheritance of loss  Ellis, Deborah / Parvana  Ellis, Deborah / Parvana’s journey  Ellis, Deborah / The heaven shop  Ellis, Deborah / Diego, run! <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Evans, Alwyn / Walk in my shoes <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Figiel, Sia / They who do not grieve <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Figiel, Sia / Where we once belonged <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Fugard, Athol / Tsotsi <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Golden, Arthur / Memoirs of a geisha <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Harris, Christine / Fortune cookies (short stories) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hendry, Frances Mary / Chandra <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hicyilmaz, Gaye / The frozen waterfall <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hidier, Tanuja Desai / Born confused <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hosseini, Khaled / The kite runner <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hosseini, Khaled / A thousand splendid suns <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Jones, Carol / Goddess of cool <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kadohata, Cynthia / Weedflower <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kaye, M. M. / The far pavilions <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kingsolver, Barbara / Pigs in heaven <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kneubuhl, Lemanatele M. / The smell of the moon <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Laird, Elizabeth / A little piece of land <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Laird, Elizabeth / The garbage king <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Lay, Graeme / Leaving one-foot island <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Lay, Graeme / Return to one-foot island <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Lewis, Richard / The flame tree <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Lormer, Kathryn / The spare room <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Lowe, Pat / Feeling the heat <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> McCarthy, Maureen / In between <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Maas, Sharon / The speech of angels <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Mankell, Henning / Secrets in the fire <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Marchetta, Melina / Looking for Alibrandi <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Marks, Nadia / Bitter sweet <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Martell, Yann / Life of Pi <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Mason, Prue / Camel rider <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> McCormick, Patricia / Sold <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Morrison, Paul / Wondrous oblivion <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Na, An / A step from heaven <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Naidoo, Beverely / Chain of fire <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Nair, Preethi / One hundred shades of white <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Namioka, Lensey/Ties that bind, ties that break <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Namioka, Lensey/An ocean apart, a world away <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Ng, Lillian / Silver sister <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> O’Connor, Tom / Tides of Kawhia <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Quivooy, Maartje / Right as rain <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Rai, Bali / Rani & Sukh <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Rifa’I, Amal & Ainbinder, Odelia / We just want to live here <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Rushdie, Salman / Midnight’s children <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Savvides, Irini / Willow tree and Olive <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Savvides, Irini / Sky legs <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Staples, Suzanne Fisher / Shabanu : daughter of the wind <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Staples, Suzanne Fisher / Haveli <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Staples, Suzanne Fisher / Shiva’s fire <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Staples, Suzanne Fisher / Under the persimmon tree <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Starke, Ruth / Nips XI <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Starke, Ruth / Nips go national <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Stratton, Allan / Chanda’s secrets <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Tan, Amy / The bonesetter’s daughter <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Tan, Amy / The hundred secret senses <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Tan, Amy / Saving fish from drowning <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta / Motherland <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Wendt, Albert / The best of Albert Wendt short stories (short stories) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Ye, Ting-xing / Throwaway daughter <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Zephaniah, Benjamin / Refugee boy
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">FICTION **

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Azadi, Sousan / Out of Iran <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Carter, Forrester / The education of Little Tree <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Chong, Denise / The girl in the picture <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">/ I have in my arms both ways <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Cinxin, Li / Mao’s last dancer : young reader’s edition <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Ellis, Deborah / Three wishes <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Ip, Manying / Home away from home <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kanal, Borany / Borany’s story <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Latifa / My forbidden face <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Mah, Adeline Yen / Chinese Cinderella <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Muhsen, Zana / Sold : a story of modern-day slavery <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Nazer, Mende / Slave <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Sasson, Jean / Mayada : daughter of Iraq <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Xinran / The good women of China
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Apirana Taylor - short stories. <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Keri Hulme - short stories <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Patricia Grace - short stories <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Witi Ihimaera - short stories
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">SHORT STORIES **

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Face relations: 11 stories about seeing beyond color. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Edited by Marilyn Singer, Simon and Schuster: New York (2004).

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Telling Tales. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Edited by Nadine Gordimer, Bloomsbury: London (2004). (A collection that includes stories from: Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Miller, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Paul Theroux among other luminaries! Published in support of HIV/AIDS treatment but the stories are not about that subject...)

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Gaza Blues: different stories //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> a collection by Etgar Keret (Israeli) and Samir El-youssef (Palestinian)

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Where’s Waari? A history of the Maori through the short story. //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Edited by Witi Ihimaera, Reed: Auckland (2000)

//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Under this tree and other stories //<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> by Stanley Makuwe, Polygraphia: Auckland (2005). (A small collection of stories by a Zimbabwean nurse who emigrated to NZ in 2002. They talk about village life in rural Zimbabwe)

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Other options could be individual stories by Albert Wendt, Garcia Marquez, some from the Huia short story collections etc <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Out of bounds / Beverly Naidoo <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Also try <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> “Nga tau rere : an anthology of ancient Maori poetry” <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> “He reo hou : 5 plays by Maori playwrights” shelf number 822.08HER <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> “Huia short stories 1997” (short story section – includes some of the authors above plus others) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> “Huia short stories 5” (short story section) published 2003 <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> For legends and mythology – 398.2

<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Witi Ihimaera -fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Patricia Grace - fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Alan Duff – fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Keri Hulme – fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Kelly Ana Morey – “Bloom” and “Grace is gone” <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Paula Morris – “Queen of beauty” <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Renee –Kissing shadows and other novels and plays <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Tim Tipene – Kura toa : warrior school (level too low for 8808 and 12905) <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hinematau McNeill - fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Hone Tuwhare (poet) – non-fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Apirana Taylor – fiction <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> Ranginui Walker (history of NZ) – non-fiction
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