Otherness: Teenage Voices

This list of books represents the voices of young people who live outside the mainstream of their societies or who redefine traditional cultural patterns.  The list is by no means comprehensive; many other titles could be listed among these.  Their commonality is the strong and honest voice of the young adult.

Adelman, Deborah, The "Children of Perestroika": Moscow Teenagers Talk About Their Lives and the Future.  Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1992.

Atkin, S. Beth, Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

Boas, Jacob, We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust.  N.Y.: Henry Holt, 1995.

Bode, Janet, New Kids on the Block: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens.  N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1989.

Heron, Ann, ed., Two Teenagers in Twenty: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth.  Boston: Alyson Publications, 1994.

Hinojosa, Maria, Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa.  San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.

Hussein, Ikram, Teenage Refugees from Somalia Speak Out. N.Y.: Rosen Publishing Group, 1997.

Kuklin, Susan, Speaking Out: Teenagers Take on Race, Sex, and Identity.  N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993.

Mozeson, I.E. and Lois Stavsky, Jerusalem Mosaic: Young Voices From the Holy City.  N.Y.: Four Winds, 1994.

Marshood, Nabil, Palestinian Teenage Refugees and Immigrants Speak Out. N.Y.: Rosen Publishing Group, 1997.

Stavsky, Lois and I.E. Mozeson, The Place I Call Home: Voices and Faces of Homeless Teens.  N.Y.: Shapolsky Publishers, 1990.

Tunnell, Michael O. and George W. Chilcoat, The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp. N.Y.: Holiday House, 1996.

Wardell, Steven, Rising Sons and Daughters: Life Among Japan's New Young.  Cambridge, MA: Plympton Press International, 1995.

Zall, P.M., Becoming American: Young People in the American Revolution.  Hamden, CN: Linnet Books, 1993.