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Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

Post author By Nicole
Post date 7 December 2021
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Black enough is a collection of short stories that deal with the daily struggles of black teenagers across America. It shows diversity within diversity: immigrants, mixed race, poor and wealthy, rural and urban. From a high-class girl dating a boy who her family would never approve of to two girls kissing in Ireland – the collection includes captivating stories about what it means to be black in America.

Year of Release: 2019

Author(s): Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Liara Tamani, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37819089-black-enough?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=KgnDEpX7kE&rank=1

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ebook URL: https://www.buecher.de/shop/ebooks/black-enough-ebook-epub/zoboi-ibi-johnson-varian-magoon-kekla-onyebuchi-tochi-reynolds-jason-stone-nic-tamani/products_products/detail/prod_id/54883714/

Audiobook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Enough-audiobook/dp/B07HPBVF7H

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Collection of stories, so each chapter can be used seperately

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Tags America, blackness, diversity, gender, immigration, race

2020-today All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) LGBTQI* Novel

The Last One: A Novel

Fatima Daas writes about her experience growing up in Paris. The Last One is a portrait of a young woman dealing with her different identities – French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian – and getting to know herself and telling her story.

Year of Release: 2021

Author(s): Fatima Daas

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Further information (link): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/books/fatima-daas-the-last-one.html

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Last-One-Novel-OTHER-PRESS/dp/1635421845

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Tags diversity, family, growing up, immigration, LGBT, love

2020-today All Audiobook CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

Indivisible

Daniel Aleman’s Indivisible explores immigration and deportation in America through Mateo Garcia’s story. Mateo is a teenage boy whose world gets shaken up when his parents get arrested by ICE agents. Now, Mateo faces new challenges and difficulties as he navigates caring for his younger sister while also questioning what it means to be an American.

Year of Release: 2021

Author(s): Daniel Aleman

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55425722-indivisible

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.com/Indivisible-Daniel-Aleman/dp/0759556059

Audiobook URL: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B091Z6Y4Y6/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Tags deporation, diversity, family, growing up, immigration, young adult literature

2020-today All CEFR B1 CEFR B2 English Extracts - Well Suited for Teaching With Extracts High school (grades 9+) Medium Length (up to 8 hrs) Novel Physical Format Poetry Uncategorized

Poet X

Post author By Nicole
Post date 19 November 2021
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Poet X tells the story of teenage girl Xiomara growing up in the United States feeling lost and finding herself in the poetry she writes. The poet-style novel describes her family, school, and love life by mediating everyday struggles for teenager coming-off age. Intercultural and intergenerational tensions are evident in the book and challenge heteronormative assumptions of gender, age, and ethnicity.

Year of Release: 2020

Author(s): Elizabeth Alcevedo

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33294200-the-poet-x

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ebook URL: https://www.amazon.de/Poet-X-Elizabeth-Acevedo-ebook/dp/B07RN4RJVP/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1637328546&sr=8-1

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The chapters are written in verse form and can be used as extracts.

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Tags diversity, equality, family, growing up, immigration, love, poetry, school, teenager

2010-2019 All Audiobook CEFR B1 CEFR B2 eBook English Extensive Length (more than 8 hrs) High school (grades 9+) Novel Print

We Set the Dark on Fire

As a young adult version of Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale, We Set the Dark on Fire mirrors real world issues of immigration and equality by describing the Medio School of Girls, an institute that trains distinguished young women for the roles in their dystopian society. Depending on the girl’s quality, she will either ran a husband’s household or take care of his children. The book traces Daniela’s story at the school and brings pressing questions of gender equality, diversity, sexuality, and immigration to the forefront.

Year of Release: 2019

Author(s): Tehlor Kay Meija

Preview: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37868569-we-set-the-dark-on-fire

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ISBN: 0062691325

ebook URL: https://www.amazon.de/We-Set-Dark-Fire-English-ebook/dp/B078R3DFK3

Audiobook URL: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07N7M3RY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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As part of a series, they could be used as a sole set of texts for teaching throughout a semester. Level of English is B1-B2+.

Tags diversity, dystopian, equality, gender equality, immigration, sexuality

2000-2009 All CEFR B2 Extensive Length (more than 8 hrs) High school (grades 9+) Other Text Formats Print

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir tells the story of her family in Iran during the Islamic Revolution in the 1980s. AFter a few years, Marjane’s family decided that she should be sent to Austria to live at a boarding school to avoid harassment. She talks about her homesickness, the discrimination she faced and how she coped with life in a strange culture.

Year of Release: 2002

Author(s): Marjane Satrapi

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Further information (link): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991197.The_Complete_Persepolis?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SBo8pdhzlK&rank=2

ISBN: 9780099523994

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Film also available: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/

Tags acculturation, family, graphhic memoir, immigration, Iran, Islam

2010-2019 All Available For Free (Open Access) CEFR B2 High school (grades 9+) Online Poetry Very Short Length (up to 20 min)

Panama

Post author By Monika
Post date 1 November 2021
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Poem about a person migrating to a country where years later he forgot his mother tongue and all the memories he had of his homeland.

Year of Release: 2014

Author(s): Ethelbert Miller

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Further information (link): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/e-ethelbert-miller

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Online text: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/panama-3

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The poem is easy, it has very simple language. More poems by Ethelbert Miller:
Other poems also by Ethelbert Miller: https://www.poemhunter.com/eugene-ethelbert-miller/poems/

Tags immigration, language, memory, mother tongue