Historical Fiction: Iran, Iraq, Israel

Iran

Fletcher, Susan. Shadow spinner
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.

Iraq

Giff, Patricia Reilly. The war began at supper: letters to Miss Loria 
The children in Mrs. Clark's class write letters to their former student teacher about events at school mixed with comments on the Persian Gulf Crisis.

Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the dust 
Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to flee with her family over the border into Iran, where they face an unknown future.

Myers, Walter Dean. Sunrise over Fallujah
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.

Israel 

Carmi, Daniella. Samir and Yonatan
Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace over his younger brother's death in the war.

Orlev, Uri. The lady with the hat 
In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him

Reid Banks, Lynne. One more river
Fourteen-year-old Lesley is upset when her parents abandon their comfortable life in Canada for a kibbutz in Israel prior to the 1967 war.