Take a Trip Around the World

This week, I am sharing teen fiction that takes place in other parts of the world.  Travel the world by reading one of these great books. 

The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli
Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother's last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an enormous, broken statue of Saint Anthony and finds that he can hear the prayers of the townspeople, despite his lack of faith.

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho
After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his.

Mother Tongue by Julie Mayhew
A story set in Russia, about the aftermath of a terrorist attack in which the 18-year-old narrator, Darya, loses her young sister Nika. Darya escapes to Moscow where she eventually realizes that running away is no cure for grief.

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mother's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets.

Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier
In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.


More Books --
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin
Asking For It by Louise O'Neill
Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Buried Beneath the Baobob Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Die For Me by Amy Plum
Disappeared by Francisco X. Stork
Freshman by Tom Ellen
A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena
Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
Girls on the Line by Jennie Liu
The House of One Thousand Eyes by Michelle Barker
Love A La Mode by Stephanie Strohm
On the Edge of Gone by Corinee Duyvis
Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin
Troublemakers by Catherine Barter
White Rose by Kip Wilson
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
The Wren Hunt by Mary Watson

Check these books out at the Arnold Branch.