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Egypt: In A Perfect World by Trish DollerĬaroline Kelly is excited to be spending her summer vacation working at the local amusement park with her best friend, exploring weird Ohio with her boyfriend, and attending soccer camp with the hope she’ll be her team’s captain in the fall.īut when Caroline’s mother is hired to open an eye clinic in Cairo, Egypt, Caroline’s plans are upended. Together, they will fight to keep safe, to eat, and to survive.Įliot Schrefer asks readers what safety means, how one sacrifices to help others, and what it means to be human in this new compelling adventure. But when revolution breaks out and their sanctuary is attacked, she must rescue the bonobos and hide in the jungle. It’s her mother’s passion, and she’d rather have nothing to do with it. When one girl has to follow her mother to her sanctuary for bonobos, she’s not thrilled to be there. The Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good. The Congo: * Endangered by Eliot Schrefer By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there’s any place where she truly fits in. In Keena’s funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. But Keena’s parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. They also didn’t carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. Most girls Keena’s age didn’t spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn’t unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. YA Set in Africa Botswana: Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts A book title with a * beside it indicates that the book is part of a series. I’ve turned to Goodreads for descriptions here, though I’ve done the work of noting where each of these books are set. Much as I am a huge YA reader, I have read embarrassingly few of these books. It is almost entirely YA, but a handful of titles are adult that would either be published as YA in today’s market or that have tremendous YA appeal. So some caveats to this particular list: it’s not exclusively books that are #OwnVoices, where #OwnVoices is defined as books written by someone whose residence or birthright is that country. It’s frustrating and disappointing to know there’s a world of incredible literature for teens out there and yet, we see so little of it in America. If the three-percent challenge is the reality of translated literature broadly, imagine the three-percent problem on the scale of YA. The other reason behind the challenge of finding a wide array of internationally-set YA books is that there are so few YA books in translation. Part of that is wanting to limit this list to one book per country-except in the cases of extremely huge countries like India, Australia, and China-as well as one book per author-again, there are cases of exception. The exciting travel itinerary not withstanding, finding YA books set around the world is a challenge, which explains why there aren’t quite 80. These YA books set around the world will take you everywhere from Kenya to Korea, New Zealand to Brazil, and everywhere in between. Welcome to your trip around the world through young adult books.