I accidentally deleted my (long) draft list mid-edit. So this time I'm going to omit the Amazon hyperlinks and just recreate it as best I can, quick and dirty.
Some of these titles do deal with historical oppression and racism, and most are more middle-grades/middle-school than YA, but all have girls of color at their center and all have moderately happy endings, as I recall.
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul-Choi (1945+ Korea) The Girl-Son by Anne E. Neuberger (turn-of-20th-C Korea) Who's Hu? by Lensey Namioka (USA, 1950s) Of Nightingales that Weep by Katherine Paterson (medieval Japan) The Skin I'm in by Sharon Flake (contemporary US) The Roller Birds of Rampur by Indi Rana (contemporary-ish? UK and India) One Bird by Kyoko Mori (1970s Japan) The Spring Tone by Kazumi Yumoto (contemporary? Japan) The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa by Sheila Gordon (apartheid-era) The Clay Marble and Rice Without Rain by Minfong Ho (Thailand) The Friends by Rosa Guy (1960s? USA (NYC, I think)) Who Is Carrie? by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (revolutionary-era North America) Second Daughter by Mildred Pitts Walker (revolutionary/just-after North America) Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (1990s?-ish USA and Israel/Palestine) Celebrating the Hero by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins (1980s? USA and Colombia) Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack (1886 Alabama) Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Mexico and USA, Great Depression) The Return by Sonia Levitin (Ethiopia, 1980s)
I'm sure I've forgotten some of the ones I had in mind; I'll post again if I think of them!
(and now, back to my previously scheduled lurking)
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Some of these titles do deal with historical oppression and racism, and most are more middle-grades/middle-school than YA, but all have girls of color at their center and all have moderately happy endings, as I recall.
The Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul-Choi (1945+ Korea)
The Girl-Son by Anne E. Neuberger (turn-of-20th-C Korea)
Who's Hu? by Lensey Namioka (USA, 1950s)
Of Nightingales that Weep by Katherine Paterson (medieval Japan)
The Skin I'm in by Sharon Flake (contemporary US)
The Roller Birds of Rampur by Indi Rana (contemporary-ish? UK and India)
One Bird by Kyoko Mori (1970s Japan)
The Spring Tone by Kazumi Yumoto (contemporary? Japan)
The Middle of Somewhere: A Story of South Africa by Sheila Gordon (apartheid-era)
The Clay Marble and Rice Without Rain by Minfong Ho (Thailand)
The Friends by Rosa Guy (1960s? USA (NYC, I think))
Who Is Carrie? by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (revolutionary-era North America)
Second Daughter by Mildred Pitts Walker (revolutionary/just-after North America)
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (1990s?-ish USA and Israel/Palestine)
Celebrating the Hero by Lyll Becerra de Jenkins (1980s? USA and Colombia)
Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack (1886 Alabama)
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Mexico and USA, Great Depression)
The Return by Sonia Levitin (Ethiopia, 1980s)
I'm sure I've forgotten some of the ones I had in mind; I'll post again if I think of them!
(and now, back to my previously scheduled lurking)