Childhood: Books for or about children in different cultures around the wor

kidzdoc: 2020 Booker International Prize novel narrated by a young girl in a family in grief after the accidental death of the oldest son.

kidzdoc: A group of reform school boys are forced to fend for themselves after their community is evacuated due to a plague

kidzdoc: A 9 yo Mauritian boy of Indian emigrants befriends another boy of his age, who is also an emigrant from another, very troubled, background.

kidzdoc: Author's account of his childhood in colonial Kenya

thorold: Rushdie’s take on the Arabian Nights

kidzdoc: author's childhood in Nigeria

thorold: Growing up in Zimbabwe

thorold: First part of Coetzee’s fictionalised autobiography

thorold: Small boy in PR Congo

kidzdoc: lovely story about a young girl and her grandmother on a small island in the Gulf of Finland

markon: Told from the perspective of a 15-yo girl, the child of a family in which her father is a devout Christian & respected businessman on the outside & a rigid & violent man in the household.

kidzdoc: semi-autographical account of a childhood in Algeria

kidzdoc: A group of brothers in Nigeria disobey their father's instructions and fish in a dangerous section of their town's river

spiphany: Teenage Russian immigrant in Germany; several other books by the author feature teenage protagonists, e.g. "Just Call Me Superhero".