Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins (for ages 10-13)
“This is an absorbing read for both boys and girls. Set in modern-day Myanmar/ Burma, it’s the story of the unlikely friendship between Chiko, a 15-year-old city boy who longs to be a teacher, and Tu Reh, a teenager living in a Karenni refugee camp on the Thai border, whose home was destroyed by the …