Multicultural+Resources


 * //Multicultural Resources //**

**//WEB RESOURCES FOR MULTICULTURAL MATERIALS //**

A new award from the American Indian Library Association, “created as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.”
 * American Indian Youth Literature Award **
 * http://aila.library.sd.gov/News/2008youthlit/index.htm **

Winners and commended titles for this award given in recognition of books for children and young adults “ that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.”
 * Americas Award **
 * http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/aa/pastwinners.html **

Awarded since 2001 to books for adults, young adults, and children that “promote Asian/Pacific Americans culture and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.”
 * Asian Pacific American Award for Literature (APAAL) **
 * http://www.apalaweb.org/awards/awards.htm **

National Council for the Social Studies presents the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards “for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the U.S.”
 * Carter G. Woodson Book Award **
 * http://www.socialstudies.org/awards/woodson **

An excellent core list of titles, grouped by age level.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">CCBC’s 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/detailListBooks.asp?idBookLists=42 **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A list of winners and honor books for the award “given to African American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions” by the American Library Association.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Coretta Scott King Award **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookaward/corettascott.cfm **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">25 notable books are selected annually by the International Reading Association as “a guide to multicultural literature for all of those seeking excellent selections for readers ranging from kindergarten through high school.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Notable Books for a Global Society **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.csulb.edu/org/childrens-lit/proj/nbgs/intro-nbgs.html **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Pura Belpre Award **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/belpremedal/belprmedal.cfm **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Awarded by the American Library Association every two years “to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Skipping Stones Honor Award **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.skippingstones.org/honors_98.htm **

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Skipping Stones //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">, a multicultural magazine for kids, recognizes exceptional multicultural books each year.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s Literature Award **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.education.txstate.edu/subpages/tomasrivera **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Texas State University College of Education presents this award “to honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience.”


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Ten Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Racism and Sexism **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.birchlane.davis.ca.us/library/10quick.htm **

**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">PUBLISHERS OF MULTICULTURAL BOOKS //**

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**August House Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publisher of storytelling guides and multicultural folktale anthologies. Site not compatible with Netscape browser. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Barefoot Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">An independent children's publisher with an emphasis on original, high-quality picture books from traditional cultures all over the world. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Barker Creek Publishing, Inc.**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Drawing and handwriting books for kids, as well as activity kids and educational aids. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Barnaby Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publishers of Hawaiian children's literature. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Bright Ring Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Bright Ring Publishing, Inc. has been publishing award-winning art activity books for children since 1985. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Bungalo Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Fun books for kids. A visually appealing site as well. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Candlewick Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Employee-owned publisher of illustrated children's books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Chronicle Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Chronicle Children's Books publishes quality children's books in all formats, including hardcover, paperback, and board books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**DK Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Dorling Kindersley publishes educational books, videos and CD ROM titles. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Dorp Express**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Children's books, music, audiobooks for sale and free online activities for kids like coloring, streaming music, holidays, history and more. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**DreamDog Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A small children's book publisher with a fantastic web site. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**FATATRAC**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Italian publisher of children's books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Free Spirit Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Award winning publisher of nonfiction materials for kids, teens, parents, educators and counselors. Pioneers of Self-Help For Kids╝ and Self-Help for Teens as well as materials for Gifted and Talented and Learning Differences. Publish 18-22 new titles a year. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Gingerbread House**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Small publisher of illustrated children's books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**HarperCollins Children's Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Big Busy House has lots of information on kids books, games, awards, features, and a great section that explains how a book is made <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Kids Can Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Kids Can Press publishes award-winning children's books for kids ages 1 to 14: non-fiction, novels, picture books, early readers, and educational workbooks and craft books. Home of Franklin the Turtle and Elliot Moose. Site features a searchable online catalog and downloadable PDF catalogs, interactive author/illustrator biographies, downloadable activity sheets and teacher materials. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Lee & Low**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publishing children's books with a multicultural theme. This site not only has information on their titles, but a fantastic section helping writers hone their skills and their manuscripts. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Lerner Publishing Group**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">America's largest independent school and library children's book publisher, producing over 200 books each year for grades K-12 on a variety of subjects. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Listening Library**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Listening Library publishes contemporary, unabridged audiobooks for all ages with a primary focus on fiction for children and young adults. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Lobster Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Lobster Press is an award winning publisher of quality fiction and non-fiction for children, teens, tweens, and their families. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Margaret Hamilton Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">One of Australia's few publishers specializing in children's books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Mentor Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publishes a wide range of titles including adult fiction and nonfiction, children's books and educational books for post primary schools. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**North South Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">English language imprint of the Swiss children's book publisher Nord-Verlag. The site includes a guide for teachers and parents, news and reviews, as well as profiles of the authors and illustrators of their books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Otter Creek Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Otter Creek Press is an independent publisher of fine imaginative fiction, which includes mysteries, intrigue, supernatural thrillers, and fantasy novels for both young adults and mature readers. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Paintbox Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Paintbox Press is an independent publisher of imaginatively designed picture books for children and adults. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Parenting Press, Inc**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Books for children and those who care for them. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Patria Press, Inc.**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publisher of the Young Patriots series of fictional biographies for children. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Peel Productions**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A fun site with activities and contests for this publisher of books for beginning readers and how to draw books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Penguin Putnam Young Readers**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Activities, games and information for kids, and for teachers, from Penguin's Children's book division. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Portunus Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A very nice site from this children's book publisher. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Raincoast Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Publisher, distributor, and wholesaler (Book Express) with many illustrated children's fiction and nonfiction titles. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Random House - Kids@Random**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Features favorite Random House children's books and authors, as well as fun-filled games, activities, and contests. Seussville is the highlight of this site. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Reader's Digest Children's Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The children's book publishing arm of The Reader's Digest Association. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Scholastic Inc.**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A major publisher of children's books, core curriculum and supplementary learning materials <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Scribum**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Children's book and story publisher, writer and illustrator resources, agency, and school. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Silver Moon Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A new and growing children's book publisher with nearly 50 titles in such areas as science, multicultural, biographies, and historical fiction. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Simon Says**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The children's book site of Simon & Schuster publishing <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Somerville House Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Canadian publisher of educational children's trade books. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Soundprints**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Environmentally themed storybooks, read-along audio tapes, and stuffed toys for kids. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Stone Arch Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Stone Arch Books was established in answer to the need for high interest fiction for the more than 67% of current U.S. Students who are reading at below-grade levels. Stone Arch Books believes that struggling and reluctant readers deserve quality stories, innovative artwork, and most of all, a sense of fun when they are confronted with opening up a new book. Our traditional chapter-format novels and our cool, safe graphic novels have been approved by reading consultants and librarians from around the country. Our passion is to reach the previously unreachable readers, especially boy readers, and to turn them, one by one, story by story, into book lovers. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Three Bears Publishing**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Canadian publisher of picture books and educational picture books for ages 5 and up. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Upstart Books**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Specializes in resources that offer creative ideas and practical instructional aids for children's librarians, school library media specialists, teachers, and parents. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Wild Heart Ranch**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Wild Heart Ranch, Inc., a children's toy and publishing company, is pleased to feature a line of children's books written to empower children and ease their fears, whether confronting a childhood fear of the dark or something more serious, such as an illness. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Winslow Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The publishing arm of The Foundation for Concepts in Education, Inc., which was established in 1996, its mission is to foster the development of the creative thought process while integrating the latest technology into our lives. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|**Zipper Press**] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">A cute site featuring innovative children's titles.

**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">Magazines and Journals //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Bookbird //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=254 //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Cobblestone //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cobblestonepub.com/index.html //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Calliope //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cobblestonepub.com/magazine/CAL/ //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Current Events //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.weeklyreader.com/teachers/current_events/ //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">National Geographic Kids //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Skipping Stones //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.skippingstones.org/ //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Faces //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cobblestonepub.com/magazine/fac/ //**


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Multicultural Review //**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.mcreview.com/ //**

**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Author Websites and Blogs //** __**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Debbie Reese—Native American //**__ __**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">[|http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com] //**__

__**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Cynthia Leitich Smith //**__ __**//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/multicultural/multi_background.html //**__

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Read ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Preschool ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ages 5-7 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What a Wonderful World **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, illustrated by Ashley Bryan. Atheneum, 1995.(Multi-ethnic)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">One Afternoon **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Yumi Heo. Orchard, 1994. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes/Las Nanas de Abuelita **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Nelly Palacio Jaramillo, illustrated by Elivia. Holt, 1994. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Margaret and Margarita/Margarita y Margaret **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Lynn Reiser. Greenwillow, 1993. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Baby Says **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by John Steptoe. Lothrop, 1988 (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I Love My Hair! **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illustrated by E. B. Lewis. Little Brown, 1998. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Baby Rattlesnake **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Te Ata, illustrated by Mira Reisberg. Children's Book Press, 1989. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">You Are My Perfect Baby **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Johce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Nneka Bennett. HarperCollins, 1999. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Round Is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Rosanne Thong, illustrated by Grace Lin. Chronicle, 2000. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Bernelda Wheeler, illustrated by Herman Bekkering. Peguis, 1986. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">More, More, More, Said the Baby: Three Love Stories **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Vera B. Williams. Greenwillow, 1990. (Multi-ethnic)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Do You Know What I'll Do? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Javaka Steptoe. HarperCollins, 2000. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Drumbeat... Heartbeat: A Celebration of the Powwow **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Susan Braine. Lerner, 1995. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Grandfather Counts **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Andrea Cheng, illustrated by Ange Zhang. Lee & Low, 2000. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Halmoni and the Picnic **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Sook Nyul Choi, illustrated by Karen M. Dugan. Houghton Mifflin, 1993. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hairs/Pelitos **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Sandra Cisneros, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez. Knopf, 1994. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Abuela **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Arthur Dorros, illustrated by Elisa Kleven. Dutton, 1991.(Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Honey, I Love, and Other Poems **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Harper, 1978. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Good Luck Cat **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Paul Lee. Harcourt, 2000. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Celebrating Families **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Rosemarie Hausherr. Scholastic, 1997. (Multi-ethnic) **Mirandy and Brother Wind** by Patricia McKissack, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Knopf, 1988. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Sandra L. Pinkney, photographs by Myles C. Pinkney. Scholastic, 2000. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Jake Swamp, illustrated by Erwin Printup, Jr. Lee & Low, 1995. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Morning on the Lake **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Jean Bourdeau Waboose, illustrated by Karen Reczuch. Kids Can Press, 1998. (American Indian)

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ages 7-9 ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ages 9-12 **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My Name Is Maria Isabel **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Alma Flor Ada. Atheneum, 1993. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">From the Bellybutton of the Moon, and Other Summer Poems/Del Ombligo de la Luna, y Otros Poemas de Verano **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Francisco X. Alarcon, illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children's Book Press, 1998. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Golden Tales: Myths, Legends and Folktales from Latin America **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Lulu Delacre. Scholastic, 1996. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Knopf, 1985. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Minfong Ho, illustrated by Jean and Mou-sien Tseng. Lothrop, 1996. (Asian Pacific)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">John Henry **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Julius Lester, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. Dial, 1994. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Baseball Saved Us **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Ken Mochizuki, illustrated by Dom Lee. Lee & Low, 1993. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Wings **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Christopher Myers. Scholastic, 2000. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The People Shall Continue **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Simon Ortiz, illustrated by Sharol Graves. Children's Book Press, 1988. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tar Beach **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Faith Ringgold. Crown, 1991. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by George Littlechild. Children's Book Press, 1998. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Mildred Pitts Walter. Lothrop, 1998. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Through My Eyes **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Ruby Bridges. Scholastic, 1999. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">American Indian Animal Stories **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Joseph Bruchac. Fulcrum, 1992. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bud, Not Buddy **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Christopher Paul Curtis. Delacorte, 1999. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Birchbark House **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Louise Erdrich. Hyperion, 1999. (American Indian)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism and Renewal **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Sheila Hamanaka. Orchard, 1990. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne. Knopf, 1997 (Multi-ethnic)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Carmen Lomas Garza. Children's Book Press, 1990. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Walter Dean Myers. HarperCollins, 1992. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Tree Is Older Than You Are **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Naomi Shihab Nye. Simon & Schuster, 1995. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Esperanza Rising **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Pam Munoz Ryan. Scholastic, 2000. (Latino)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Quilted Landscape: Conversations with Young Immigrants **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Yale Strom. Simon & Schuster, 1996. (Multi-ethnic)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Mildred D. Taylor. Dial, 1976. (African American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Rainbow People **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Lawrence Yep. HarperCollins, 1989. (Asian Pacific American)
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Friends **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> by Kazumi Yumoto. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. (Asian Pacific)


 * Notable Books for a Global Society - 2006 List **
 * (Outstanding K-12 Multicultural Literature) **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ahmadi, Farah. **//The story of my life: An Afghan girl on the other side of the sky.//** New York: Simon and Schuster.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. **//Hitler youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow.//** New York: Scholastic.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Carling, Amelia Lau. **//Sawdust carpets.//** Toronto: Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Carvell, Marlene. **//Sweetgrass basket.//** New York: Dutton.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Chamberlin, Mary and Chamberlin, Rich. **//Mama Panya's pancakes: A village talefrom Kenya.//** Illus. by Julia Cairns. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cheng, Andrea. **//Shanghai messenger.//** Illus. by Ed Young. New York: Lee and LowBooks

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Giovanni, Nikki. **//Rosa.//** Illus. by Bryan Collier. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hillman, Laura. **//I will plant you a lilac tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's list survivor.//** New York: Atheneum.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Johnson-Davis, Denys. **//Goha the wise fool.//** Illus. by Hag Handy and Hany. New York: Philomel. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jurmain, Suzanne. **//The forbidden schoolhouse: The true and dramatic story ofPrudence Crandall and her students.//** New York: Houghton Mifflin. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal, and Steinhardt, Bernice. **//Memories of survival.//** New York:Hyperion.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Lester, Julius. **//The Old African.//** Illus. by Jerry Pinkney. New York: Dial Books.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Millman, Isaac. **//Hidden child.//** New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Nelson, Marilyn. **//A wreath for Emmett Till.//** Illus. by Philippe Lardy. Boston: HoughtonMifflin.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Park, Linda Sue. **//Project mulberry.//** New york: Clarion.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Rappaport, Doreen. **//The school is not white! A true story of the Civil RightsMovement.//** Illus. by Curtis James. New York: Hyperion. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Reich, Susanna. **//José!: Born to dance: The story of José Limon.//** Illus. by RaulColon: New York: Simon & Schuster.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ruurs, Martriet. **//My librarian is a camel: How books are brought to children around the world.//** New York: Boyds Mills Press.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Say, Allen. **//Kamishibai man.//** Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Staples, Suzanne Fisher. **//Under the persimmon tree.//** New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tal, Eve. **//Double crossing.//** El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Weatherford, Carole Boston. **//A Negro league scrapbook.//** Honesdale: Boyds Mills Press.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Williams, Mary. **//Brothers in hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan.//** Illus. by R. Gregory Christie. New York: Lee & Low books. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Woodson, Jacqueline. **//Show way.//** Illus. by Hudson Talbott. New York: G. P. Putnam'sSons.

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Yoo, Paula. **//Sixteen years in sixteen seconds.//** Illus. by Don Lee. New York: Lee & Low.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">*indicates a picture book
 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Notable Books for a Global Society - 2007 List **
 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Outstanding K-12 Multicultural Literature) **


 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Historical Fiction **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Boyne, J. (2006). **//The Boy in the Striped Pajamas//**. New York: David Fickling. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Draper, S. (2006). **//Copper Sun//**//.// New York: Atheneum <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Holm, J. L. (2006). **//Penny From Heaven//**//.// New York: Random House. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Lee-Tai, A. (2006). **//A Place where Sunflowers Grow//**//.// Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*McCutcheon, J. (2006). **//Christmas in the Trenches//**//.// Illustrated by Henri Sorensen. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Atlanta, GA: Peachtree. (pb) <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Raven, M. T. (2006). **//Night Boat to Freedom//**//.// Illustrated by E. B. Lewis. New York: <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Melanie Kroupa. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Tingle, T. (2006). **//Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Winthrop, E. (2006). **//Counting on Grace//**//.// New York: Wendy Lamb. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Weatherford, C. (2006). **//Dear Mr. Rosenwald//**. Illustrated by Gregory R. Christie. New <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">York: Scholastic. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Weatherford, C. B. (2006). **//Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Zusak, M. (2006). **//The Book Thief//**//.// New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Freedom //**//<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Freedom //**<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. New York: Jump at the Sun.


 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Nonfiction **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Freedman, R. (2006). **//Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Goldman, S. R. with Ela Weissberger. (2006). **//Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hopkinson, D. (2006). //**Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America**//. New <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">York: Scholastic. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Shoveller, H//.// (2006). **//Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Zalben, J. B. (2006). **//Paths to Peace//**. New York: Dutton.
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Boycott //**//<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New York: Holiday House.
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Age in Terezin //**<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. New York: Holiday House.
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Together //**//<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press.


 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Poetry **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Greenfield, E. (2006). **//When the Horses Ride By.//** Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">New York: Lee & Low <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Myers, W. D. (2006). **//Jazz.//** Illustrated by Christopher Myers. New York: Holiday <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">House.


 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Realistic Fiction **

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Diakite, P. (2006). **//I Lost My Tooth in Africa//**//.// Illustrated by Bab Wague Diakite. New <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">York: Scholastic. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Hobb, W. (2006). **//Crossing the Wire//**//.// New York: HarperCollins. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Kessler, C. (2006). **//Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa//**. Illustrated by <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Leonard Jenkins. New York: Holiday House. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">*Kroll, V. (2006). **//Selvakumar Knew Better//**. Illustrated by Xiaojun. Fremont, CA: <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Shen's. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">McCormick, P. (2006). **//Sold//.** New York: Hyperion.


 * <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Traditional Literature __**

<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Campoy, F. I., & Ada, A. F. (2006). **//Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale//** <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Torres. New York: Atheneum. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">McKissack, P. (2006). **//Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily//**
 * //<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Collection //**<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. Illustrated by Felipe Davalos, Viva Escriva, Susan Guevara, Leyla
 * //<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Characters //**//<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">. //<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Illustrated by Andre Carrilho. New York: Schwartz & Wade