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TITLE
AUTHOR
REFERENCE:
New Oxford
Picture Dictionary
Japanese/English
REFERENCE:
New Oxford
Picture Dictionary
/English
Ella Fitzgerald: The
tale of a vocal
virtuosa
Parnwell, E.C.
GRADE
LEVEL
3-5
Parnwell, E.C.
3-5
Pinkney,
Andrea
4
2
Presents the life and
music career of
African-American
vocalist Ella
Fitzgerald.
Frida
Winter, Jonah
5
2
Book from the
author of "Diego,"
about famed
Mexican muralist
(and husband of
Frida) Diego
Rivera. A
spectacular, lush
introduction to an
inspiring woman
and her art.
Hindu Festival
Tales
Marchant,
Kerena
3
2
Contains stories,
songs, plays, and
recipes for over
twenty traditional
Hindu festivals.
REFERENCE
History of the
Black Church
Lutz, Norma
Jean
5
REFERENCE
Kidtopia: Round
the Country and
Gould, Roberta
1-5
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
English/Japanese
Dictionary
English Dictionary
Examines the
history of African
American religion
and churches.
Contains sixty
projects for kids
which help them
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Back through in 60
Pro
Lapin plays
Possum: Trickster
Tales
AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
Doucet, Sharon
3
Genre
This House is Made Buchanan, Ken
of Mud
1
5
Under the BloodRed Sun
Salisbury,
Graham
5
2
Year of the Panda
Schlein, Miriam
3
4
Baby-O
Carlstrom,
Nancy White
1
SYNOPSIS
learn about different
cultures
The author presents
another set of
trickster tales set in
the Louisiana bayou
featuring the
lollygagging
Compere Lapin as
he tries to outwit
Compere Bouki .
A family builds an
adobe house in the
Southwest desert.
Tomikazu Nakaji's
biggest concerns are
baseball,
homework, and a
local bully, until life
with his Japanese
family in Hawaii
changes drastically
after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor in
December 1941
A Chinese boy
rescues a starving
baby panda, and, in
the process, learns
why pandas are
endangered, and
what the
government is doing
to save them.
A lyrical tale of a
West Indian family
who gather together
on a bus that takes
them and their goods
to the local market.
This story poem uses
invented language and
has an easy rhyme
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Big Jimmy’s Kum
Kau Chinese TakeOut
Bippity Bop
AUTHOR
Tarpley
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
1
scheme that younger
students will enjoy.
Topic: Father-son,
Chinese, restaurant,
food
1
Topic: First haircut,
father-son
Barbershop
Birthday Basket for
Tia
Mora, Pat
1
Chicken Sunday
Polacco,
Patricia
1
9
Day the Hurricane
Happened
Anderson,
Lonzo
1
8
Dumpling Soup
Rattigan, Jama
Kim
1
Grandmother’s
Adobe Dollhouse
Smith,
MaryLou M.
1
5
Cecilia prepares a gift
basket for her greataunt’s 90th birthday.
Each item she
includes represents an
activity she shares
with her great-aunt.
Sensing that Miss
Eula has been
admiring a beautiful
Easter hat in Mr.
Kodinski’s show
window, the children
sell decorated eggs to
earn money so they
can purchase the hat
as a thank-you gift for
her wonderful Sunday
chicken dinners.
A delightful story of a
day on the island of
St. John in the Virgin
Islands when the
hurricane really
happened. The story
is told from the point
of view of young
Albio and Eldra who
live with their parents
in a house near the
beach.
Maria, an Asian
American girl, tries to
make dumplings for
her family’s annual
New Year’s
celebration.
A young boy
describes his
grandmother’s adobe
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AUTHOR
Hickory Chair, The
I Live in Tokyo
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
dollhouse, giving
information about the
architecture, art, food,
and culture of New
Mexico.
Topic:
Grandmothers, death,
being handicapped
Topic: Tokyo, Japan,
1
Takabayashi
SYNOPSIS
1
customs
I Need a Lunch
Box
Caines,
Jeannette
1
School start
It’s Okay to be
Parr
1
4
A little boy dreams of
having his own lunch
box, even though he
hasn’t entered school
yet.
Topic: Self esteem,
diversity
Different
Jin Woo
Bunting
1
Just the Two of Us
Smith
1
Topic: Adoption,
brothers, Korean
Americans
Topic: Family,
fatherhood
Magic Amber
Reasoner,
Charles
1
Martin’s Big
Rappaport
1
2
Because of their
selflessness and
generosity to a
strange visitor, an old
rice farmer and his
wife are magically
compensated.
Topic: MLK, Jr.,
Civil Rights
Words
Mommy Far,
Mommy Near
Peacock
1
Nina’s Treasures
Czernecki,
Stefan &
Rhodes,
Timothy
1
Pepito’s Story
Fern, Eugene
1
Topic:
Mother/child/adoption
, Chinese
Katerina runs out of
food near the end of
the winter, but Nina
saves the day by
laying exquisite
multicolored eggs.
Through his dancing,
a young boy takes on
other identities. His
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Perfect Pinata, The
AUTHOR
Dominguez
GRADE
LEVEL
1
THEME #
(if app.)
2
SYNOPSIS
dancing helps save an
ill little girl.
Topic: Pinatas,
birthdays, parties
Piano, The
Miller
1
4
Topic: Piano,
friendship, old age
Story of
Compestine
1
Topic: Chopsticks,
China
Chopsticks, The
Tale of Tricky Fox,
1
Topic: Trickster tales
1
Topic: Ahmish trip to
The
The Journey
Stewart
the city, diaries
Three Stalks of
Corn
Politi, Leo
1
4
Three Strong
Women
Stamm, Claus
1
Too Many Tamales
Soto, Gary
1
4
Turtle Knows Your
Bryan, Ashley
1
4
Angelica’s
grandmother explains
to her the legends and
uses of corn.
Through her cooking,
the grandmother
becomes involved
with Angelica’s
school and shares
experiences with the
children.
Forever Mountain, a
famous wrestler,
plays a prank on a
young girl, which
leads to his being
trained by her, her
mother, and
grandmother.
Maria helps to make
tamales at Christmas.
While doing so, she
tries on her mother’s
wedding ring and it
becomes misplaced,
but not before the
children have eaten
all the tamales in an
effort to find the ring.
This story, rich in
rhyme and rhythm,
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
Name
Yokos Paper
Cranes
Baby-O
Big Jimmy’s Kum
Kau Chinese TakeOut
Bippity Bop
Carlstrom,
Nancy White
Tarpley
1
4
2
3
2
5
2
5
SYNOPSIS
tells of a small boy
with a very long name
who is challenging his
grandmother to find
out her real name.
Topic: Origami,
grandmothers,
birthdays, gifts, cats,
Japanese-Americans
A lyrical tale of a
West Indian family
who gather together
on a bus that takes
them and their goods
to the local market.
This story poem uses
invented language and
has an easy rhyme
scheme that younger
students will enjoy.
Topic: Father-son,
Chinese, restaurant,
food
Topic: First haircut,
father-son
Barbershop
Dancing with the
Indians
Medearis,
Angela Shelf
2
Dear Whiskers
Nagda
2
Diego
Winter, Jeanette
& Jonah
2
5
An African American
family joins the
Seminoles for a
Native American
pow-wow. The
Seminoles had
rescued the
grandfather from
slavery and accepted
him as their brother.
Topic: Pen palsletters, school stories,
immigrants
Diego Rivera’s
childhood greatly
influenced his
paintings. He became
known throughout the
world as one of the
greatest muralists of
all time. His social
conscience manifests
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
Gold Coin
Ada, Alma Flor
2
Grandfather’s
Journey
Say, Allen
2
5
2
5
Hickory Chair, The
I Live in Tokyo
Takabayashi
2
SYNOPSIS
itself at an early age.
A young thief is intent
upon stealing an old
woman’s gold coin.
When he has the
opportunity to steal
the coin, he realizes
that he can’t.
A Japanese American
man relives his
grandfather’s journey
to America and shares
his feelings of being
torn by his love for
both countries.
Topic:
Grandmothers, death,
being handicapped
Topic: Tokyo, Japan,
customs
Jin Woo
Bunting
2
5
Just the Two of Us
Smith
2
5
Topic: Adoption,
brothers, Korean
Americans
Topic: Family,
fatherhood
Magic Amber
Reasoner,
Charles
2
Martin’s Big
Rappaport
2
Because of their
selflessness and
generosity to a
strange visitor, an old
rice farmer and his
wife are magically
compensated.
Topic: MLK, Jr.,
Civil Rights
Words
Mommy Far,
Mommy Near
Peacock
2
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
Polacco
2
On the Same Day
in March
Pepito’s Story
Singer
2
Fern, Eugene
2
5
6
Topic:
Mother/child/adoption
, Chinese
Topic: Bullies
Topic: Weather,
places
Through his dancing,
a young boy takes on
other identities. His
dancing helps save an
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Perfect Pinata, The
AUTHOR
Dominguez
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
ill little girl.
Topic: Pinatas,
2
birthdays, parties
Piano, The
Miller
2
Topic: Piano,
friendship, old age
Sachiko Means
Happiness
Sakai, Kimiko
2
Story of
Compestine
2
5
Sachiko is upset when
she realizes that her
grandmother no
longer recognizes her,
but begins to
understand that they
can still have a happy
relationship together.
Topic: Chopsticks,
China
Chopsticks, The
Tale of Tricky Fox,
2
Topic: Trickster tales
The
Tar Beach
Ringgold, Faith
2
The Journey
Stewart
2
3
Cassie Louise
Lightfoot’s
imagination allows
her to go wherever
she wants. She leaves
her mundane world
behind and creates a
more appealing
scenario.
Topic: Ahmish trip to
the city, diaries
Those Building
Johnson
2
3
Topic: Building,
construction workers
Men
Three Strong
Women
Stamm, Claus
2
1
Turtle Knows Your
Name
Bryan, Ashley
2
5
Forever Mountain, a
famous wrestler,
plays a prank on a
young girl, which
leads to his being
trained by her, her
mother, and
grandmother.
This story, rich in
rhyme and rhythm,
tells of a small boy
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
Very Last First
Time
Andrews, Jan
2
Warlord’s Puzzle,
Pilegard
2
THEME #
(if app.)
2
with a very long name
who is challenging his
grandmother to find
out her real name.
A young Inuit girl
goes beneath the think
sea ice to search for
mussels along the
bottom of the seabed
for the very first time
all by herself.
Topic: Puzzles,
China, tangran
The
Watch the Stars
Come Out
SYNOPSIS
Levinson, Riki
Yokos Paper
Cranes
2
2
A Book of Dolls
from Around the
World
Big Jimmy’s Kum
Kau Chinese TakeOut
Black Snowman
Markel
Brother Eagle,
Sister Sky
A little girl loves to
hear her grandma tell
the story of her
mother’s journey to
America many year’s
ago.
Topic: Origami,
grandmothers,
birthdays, gifts, cats,
Japanese-Americans
Topic: Dolls
3
2
3
2
Topic: Father-son,
Chinese, restaurant,
food
Mendez, Phil
3
2
Seattle, Chief
3
During the Christmas
season, two young
brothers build a
snowman and wrap it
up in a scrap of cloth
they find. The scrap
is really a “Kente,” an
African storytelling
shawl that has special,
magical qualities as
the boys soon
discover!
In a speech made to
his people, Chief
Seattle describes their
love and respect for
the land and his fear
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Celebrating
AUTHOR
Hoyt-Goldsmith
GRADE
LEVEL
3
THEME #
(if app.)
2
SYNOPSIS
of its destruction.
Topic: Ramadan
(holiday)
Ramadan
Dear Whiskers
Nagda
3
Topic: Pen palsletters, school stories,
immigrants
Diego
Winter, Jeanette
& Jonah
3
Fairy Tales
Doherty
3
Diego Rivera’s
childhood greatly
influenced his
paintings. He became
known throughout the
world as one of the
greatest muralists of
all time. His social
conscience manifests
itself at an early age.
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
Flame of Peace
Lattimore,
Deborah Norse
3
3
Flossie and the Fox
McKissack,
Patricia
3
6
Fly
Myer
3
Full Worm Moon
Lemieux,
Margo
3
A young boy must
outwit nine evil lords
of the night if war is
to be averted. He
must obtain the flame
of peace from
Morning Star.
Flossie outsmarts a
fox that is menacing a
neighbor’s henhouse.
So intent is he upon
convincing Flossie
that he is a fox, he
tarries and is
eventually “outfoxed”
by Flossie.
Topic: Birds, flight
An Algonquin family
spends a cold night
waiting to see the
earthworms dance as
they did in the ancient
story about the full
worm moon. The full
worm moon occurs in
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
Girl Who Loved
Caterpillars
Merrill, Jean
3
2
Grandfather’s
Journey
Say, Allen
3
5
Hickory Chair, The
3
Hindu Festivals
Marchant
3
I Live in Tokyo
Takabayashi
3
2
SYNOPSIS
March when the
worms help by
“stirring” the soil,
preparing the earth for
new growth.
Izumi, a young girl,
who has a passion for
caterpillars and other
insects defies
traditional social and
family pressures in
this anonymous
Japanese tale.
A Japanese American
man relives his
grandfather’s journey
to America and shares
his feelings of being
torn by his love for
both countries.
Topic:
Grandmothers, death,
being handicapped
Topic: Holidays,
folklore, Hindus, play
Topic: Tokyo, Japan,
customs
Iktomi and the
Boulder
Goble, Paul
3
Jewish Festivals
Pirotta
3
2
A humorous tale
about Iktomi, the
mischievious Plains
Indian trickster. In
this story, Iktomi
attempts to defeat a
boulder with the
assistance of some
bats, which explains
why bats have flat
faces and the Great
Plains are covered
with small stones.
Topic: Jewish
folklore, holidays
Jin Woo
Bunting
3
Topic: Adoption,
brothers, Korean
Americans
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Just the Two of Us
AUTHOR
Smith
GRADE
LEVEL
3
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
Topic: Family,
fatherhood
Martin’s Big
Rappaport
3
Topic: MLK, Jr.,
Civil Rights
Words
Mommy Far,
Mommy Near
Peacock
3
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
Polacco
3
On the Same Day
Singer
in March
Over the Deep Blue Ikeda, Daisaku
Sea
3
Pepito’s Story
Fern, Eugene
3
Piano, The
Miller
3
3
Topic:
Mother/child/adoption
, Chinese
Topic: Bullies
1
Topic: Weather,
places
Akiko and her
brother’s friendship
with a boy on their
new island is
jeopardized because
of an event from the
past.
Through his dancing,
a young boy takes on
other identities. His
dancing helps save an
ill little girl.
Topic: Piano,
friendship, old age
Prince Who Ran
Away, The
Russian Folk Tales
Rockwell
3
3
Topic: Buddah,
prince
Topic: Folk tales
Riordan, James
3
Sachiko Means
Happiness
Sakai, Kimiko
3
6
3
2
Sachiko is upset when
she realizes that her
grandmother no
longer recognizes her,
but begins to
understand that they
can still have a happy
relationship together.
Topic: Religions
Sacred Places
Sturges
(religious buildings)
Salsa Stories
Delacre
3
2
Topic: Parties,
family, recipes
Secrets in Stone
Coulter
3
2
Topic: Mayan
language,
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
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Senefer: A Young
Genius in Old
Egypt
Lumpkin,
Beatrice
3
6
Story of
Compestine
3
2
SYNOPSIS
hieroglyphics,
antiques, toys
Senefer was a young
boy with
mathematical ability.
He watned to be an
engineer and raise
obelisks. He became
one of Egypt’s
greatest
mathematicians and
builders, designing
the greatest temple in
all Egypt.
Topic: Chopsticks,
China
Chopsticks, The
Tale of Tricky Fox,
3
Genere
Topic: Trickster tales
The
The Journey
Stewart
3
Topic: Ahmish trip to
the city, diaries
Those Building
Johnson
3
Topic: Building,
construction workers
Men
Too Many Tamales
Soto, Gary
3
Upside Down Boy,
de Cabeza
3
Maria helps to make
tamales at Christmas.
While doing so, she
tries on her mother’s
wedding ring and it
becomes misplaced,
but not before the
children have eaten
all the tamales in an
effort to find the ring.
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
The
Very Last First
Time
6
Andrews, Jan
3
A young Inuit girl
goes beneath the think
sea ice to search for
mussels along the
bottom of the seabed
for the very first time
all by herself.
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Warlord’s Puzzle,
AUTHOR
Pilegard
GRADE
LEVEL
3
THEME #
(if app.)
2
SYNOPSIS
Topic: Puzzles,
China, tangran
The
Watch the Stars
Come Out
Levinson, Riki
3
5
Why Mosquitoes
Buzz in People’s
Ears
Ardema, Verna
3
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Children from
Australia to
Zimbabwe
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Kid’s Visual
Reference
REFERENCES:
The First Thousand
Words – English,
Italian, French,
Russian, Spanish,
German, Japanese
A Book of Dolls
from Around the
World
Abadeha
(Phillippine
Cinderella)
Angelfish
Ajmera &
Versola
3
Blackbird Press
3
Amery &
Cartwright
3
Markel
4
Topic: Dolls
de la Paz
4
Topic: Fairy tale Cinderella
Yep, Laurence
4
Topic: Mixed races,
A little girl loves to
hear her grandma tell
the story of her
mother’s journey to
America many year’s
ago.
Do the antics of a
mosquito cause the
sun not to shine?
This African folktale
sheds light on this
problem and how it is
resolved.
Reference book about
countries A-Z.
Countries reference
book.
ballet
Aunt Harriet’s
Underground
Railroad in the Sky
Ringgold, Faith
4
5
With Harriet Tubman
as her guide, a young
girl retraces the steps
that escaping slaves
took on the
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Celebrating
AUTHOR
Hoyt-Goldsmith
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
Underground
Railroad in order to
reunite with her
younger brother.
Topic: Ramadan
4
(holiday)
Ramadan
Dear Whiskers
Nagda
4
Emperor’s Silent
Army, The
Enchanted Hair
Tale
O’Connor
4
De Veaux,
Alexis
4
Fairy Tales
Doherty
4
4
Topic: Pen palsletters, school stories,
immigrants
Topic: China, statues,
archaeology
A young boy named
Sudan has “wild,
enchanted hair” that
“giggles when he
talks and roars when
he walks.” People
tease him. One day
Sudan discovers a
wild enchanted place
where he learns the
lesson of “stick and
stones” and how to be
himself.
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
Flossie and the Fox
McKissack,
Patricia
4
Fly
Myer
4
6
Flossie outsmarts a
fox that is menacing a
neighbor’s henhouse.
So intent is he upon
convincing Flossie
that he is a fox, he
tarries and is
eventually “outfoxed”
by Flossie.
Topic: Birds, flight
Goin’ Someplace
Special
Hickory Chair, The
McKissack &
Pinkney
4
2
Topic: Segregation
Hindu Festivals
Marchant
4
Hmong of
Millett
Southeast Asia, The
4
4
1
Topic:
Grandmothers, death,
being handicapped
Topic: Holidays,
folklore, Hindus, play
Topic: Farming, war,
immigration, holidays
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AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
4
How I Became An
American
Iktomi and the
Boulder
Gundisch
Goble, Paul
4
Jewish Festivals
Pirotta
4
THEME #
(if app.)
1
SYNOPSIS
Topic: Immigration
A humorous tale
about Iktomi, the
mischievious Plains
Indian trickster. In
this story, Iktomi
attempts to defeat a
boulder with the
assistance of some
bats, which explains
why bats have flat
faces and the Great
Plains are covered
with small stones.
Topic: Jewish
folklore, holidays
Jin Woo
Bunting
4
Just the Two of Us
Smith
4
Topic: Adoption,
brothers, Korean
Americans
Topic: Family,
fatherhood
Knots on a
Counting Rope
Martin, Bill Jr.
&
Archambault,
John
4
Martin’s Big
Rappaport
4
2
Civil Rights
Words
Mary McLean and
the St. Patrick’s
Day Parade
Kroll, Steven
4
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
Polacco
4
4
On the Same Day
in March
Other Side of
Singer
4
6
4
1
In order to ride in the
St. Patrick’s Day
parade in a grand,
horse-drawn cart with
Mr. Finnegan, Mary
must bring him a
perfect shamrock.
Topic: Bullies
Topic: Weather,
places
Topic: RefugeesNigeria-London
Truth, The
Pepito’s Story
A young boy and his
grandfather reminisce
about the boy’s birth,
his first horse, and an
exciting horse race.
Topic: MLK, Jr.,
Fern, Eugene
4
Through his dancing,
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TITLE
AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
Prince Who Ran
Away, The
River Ran Wild
Rockwell
4
Cherry, Lynne
4
Russian Folk Tales
Riordan, James
4
Sachiko Means
Happiness
Sakai, Kimiko
4
Sacred Places
Sturges
4
THEME #
(if app.)
2
SYNOPSIS
a young boy takes on
other identities. His
dancing helps save an
ill little girl.
Topic: Buddah,
prince
This book chronicles
the environmental
history of the Nashua
River, from its
discovery by the
Nashua Indians
through the polluting
years of the Industrial
Revolution to the
ambitious clean-up
that brought it back to
life.
Topic: Folk tales
Sachiko is upset when
she realizes that her
grandmother no
longer recognizes her,
but begins to
understand that they
can still have a happy
relationship together.
Topic: Religions
(religious buildings)
Salsa Stories
Delacre
4
Topic: Parties,
family, recipes
Secrets in Stone
Coulter
4
Senefer: A Young
Genius in Old
Egypt
Lumpkin,
Beatrice
4
4
Topic: Mayan
language,
hieroglyphics,
antiques, toys
Senefer was a young
boy with
mathematical ability.
He watned to be an
engineer and raise
obelisks. He became
one of Egypt’s
greatest
mathematicians and
builders, designing
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TITLE
AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
Sim Chung and the
River Dragon
Schecter, Ellen
4
3
Starfisher, The
Yep, Laurence
4
1
SYNOPSIS
the greatest temple in
all Egypt.
Beautiful young Sim
Chung agrees to live
with a terrifying
dragon in order to
help restore sight to
her blind father.
Topic:
Chinese/moving/preju
dice
The Journey
Stewart
4
1
Topic: Ahmish trip to
the city, diaries
Those Building
Johnson
4
Topic: Building,
construction workers
Men
Upside Down Boy,
de Cabeza
4
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
The
Warlord’s Puzzle,
Pilegard
4
Topic: Puzzles,
China, tangran
The
Watch the Stars
Come Out
Levinson, Riki
4
Woman Who
Outshone the Sun
Martinez,
Alejandro Cruz
4
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Children from
Australia to
Zimbabwe
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Ajmera &
Versola
4
Blackbird Press
4
1
A little girl loves to
hear her grandma tell
the story of her
mother’s journey to
America many year’s
ago.
The author retells the
Zapotec legend of
Lucia Zentono, a
beautiful woman with
magical powers who
is exiled from a
mountain village and
takes away its water
in punishment.
Reference book about
countries A-Z.
Countries reference
book.
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TITLE
Kid’s Visual
Reference
REFERENCES:
The First Thousand
Words – English,
Italian, French,
Russian, Spanish,
German, Japanese
Call me Consuelo
19 Varieties of
AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
Amery &
Cartwright
4
Lachtman,
Ofelia
4
Nye
5
SYNOPSIS
After suddenly
being orphaned,
twelve-year-old
Consuelo
reluctantly moves in
with her American
grandmother while
hoping to return
soon to her Mexican
American family.
Genere
Topic: Poetry –
Middle Eastern
Gazelle
A Book of Dolls
from Around the
World
Abadeha
(Phillippine
Cinderella)
Angelfish
THEME #
(if app.)
Markel
5
Topic: Dolls
de la Paz
5
Topic: Fairy tale Cinderella
Yep, Laurence
5
Topic: Mixed races,
ballet
Celebrating
Hoyt-Goldsmith
5
(holiday)
Ramadan
Emperor’s Silent
Army, The
Enchanted Hair
Tale
Topic: Ramadan
O’Connor
5
De Veaux,
Alexis
5
Topic: China, statues,
archaeology
A young boy named
Sudan has “wild,
enchanted hair” that
“giggles when he
talks and roars when
he walks.” People
tease him. One day
Sudan discovers a
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TITLE
Fairy Tales
AUTHOR
Doherty
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
wild enchanted place
where he learns the
lesson of “stick and
stones” and how to be
himself.
Topic: Fairy tales,
5
folklore
Goin’ Someplace
Special
Grandfather’s
Dream
McKissack &
Pinkney
Keller, Holly
Hickory Chair, The
Hindu Festivals
5
Topic: Segregation
6
Hoping that the large
cranes that once lived
iin the wetlands of the
Mekong Delta before
the Vietnam War
would return, a young
boy’s grandfather
dreams of restoring
them.
Topic:
Grandmothers, death,
being handicapped
Topic: Holidays,
folklore, Hindus, play
Topic: Farming, war,
immigration, holidays
Topic: Immigration
4
Life on the Lower
East Side of New
York in 1910 is very
different from life in
Russia. Becky shares
this vivid and exciting
life about her and her
family in New York.
Topic: Jewish
5
Marchant
Hmong of
Millett
Southeast Asia, The
How I Became An Gundisch
American
Immigrant Girl:
Harvey, Brett
Becky of Eldridge
Street
Jewish Festivals
5
Pirotta
5
5
5
5
5
folklore, holidays
Just the Two of Us
Smith
5
Topic: Family,
fatherhood
Knots on a
Counting Rope
Martin, Bill Jr.
&
Archambault,
John
5
5
A young boy and his
grandfather reminisce
about the boy’s birth,
his first horse, and an
exciting horse race.
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TITLE
Martin’s Big
AUTHOR
Rappaport
GRADE
LEVEL
5
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
Topic: MLK, Jr.,
Civil Rights
Words
Mary McLean and
the St. Patrick’s
Day Parade
Kroll, Steven
5
Mr. Lincoln’s Way
Polacco
5
On the Same Day
in March
Other Side of
Singer
5
5
4
In order to ride in the
St. Patrick’s Day
parade in a grand,
horse-drawn cart with
Mr. Finnegan, Mary
must bring him a
perfect shamrock.
Topic: Bullies
1
Topic: Weather,
places
Topic: RefugeesNigeria-London
Truth, The
Pepito’s Story
Fern, Eugene
5
Prince Who Ran
Away, The
Rockwell
5
Russian Folk Tales
Riordan, James
5
Topic: Folk tales
Sachiko Means
Happiness
Sakai, Kimiko
5
Sacred Places
Sturges
5
Sachiko is upset when
she realizes that her
grandmother no
longer recognizes her,
but begins to
understand that they
can still have a happy
relationship together.
Topic: Religions
Through his dancing,
a young boy takes on
other identities. His
dancing helps save an
ill little girl.
Topic: Buddah,
prince
(religious buildings)
Salsa Stories
Delacre
5
Topic: Parties,
family, recipes
Secrets in Stone
Coulter
5
Senefer: A Young
Lumpkin,
5
Topic: Mayan
language,
hieroglyphics,
antiques, toys
Senefer was a young
boy with
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TITLE
AUTHOR
Genius in Old
Egypt
Beatrice
Starfisher, The
Yep, Laurence
GRADE
LEVEL
5
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
mathematical ability.
He watned to be an
engineer and raise
obelisks. He became
one of Egypt’s
greatest
mathematicians and
builders, designing
the greatest temple in
all Egypt.
Topic:
Chinese/moving/preju
dice
Those Building
Johnson
5
construction workers
Men
Upside Down Boy,
Topic: Building,
de Cabeza
5
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
The
Watch the Stars
Come Out
Levinson, Riki
5
Woman Who
Outshone the Sun
Martinez,
Alejandro Cruz
5
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Children from
Australia to
Zimbabwe
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Kid’s Visual
Reference
Ajmera &
Versola
5
Blackbird Press
5
A little girl loves to
hear her grandma tell
the story of her
mother’s journey to
America many year’s
ago.
The author retells the
Zapotec legend of
Lucia Zentono, a
beautiful woman with
magical powers who
is exiled from a
mountain village and
takes away its water
in punishment.
Reference book about
countries A-Z.
Countries reference
book.
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PART OF MEDIA
CURRICULUM
10/16/02
DIVERSITY BOOK LIST *
TITLE
AUTHOR
GRADE
LEVEL
THEME #
(if app.)
SYNOPSIS
REFERENCES:
The First Thousand
Words – English,
Italian, French,
Russian, Spanish,
German, Japanese
REFERENCES:
The First Thousand
Words – English,
Italian, French,
Russian, Spanish,
German, Japanese
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Basic Oxford
Picture Dictionary:
English/Vietnamese
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Basic Oxford
Picture Dictionary:
English/Spanish
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Basic Oxford
Picture Dictionary:
English
Breadwinner
Amery &
Cartwright
5
Amery &
Cartwright
5
Gramer, Margot
5
English/Vietnamese
Gramer, Margot
5
English/Spanish
Gramer, Margot
5
English
Ellis, Deborah
5
After her father is
arrested for the
crime of having a
foreign education,
Parvana must
transform herself
into a boy and earn
money for her
family in
Afghanistan.
Abadeha
(Phillippine
Cinderella)
de la Paz
6
Topic: Fairy tale Cinderella
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TITLE
Upside Down Boy,
AUTHOR
de Cabeza
GRADE
LEVEL
6
SYNOPSIS
Topic: Fairy tales,
folklore
The
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Children from
Australia to
Zimbabwe
REFERENCE
BOOK:
Kid’s Visual
Reference
THEME #
(if app.)
Ajmera &
Versola
6
Reference book about
countries A-Z.
Blackbird Press
6
Countries reference
book.
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PART OF MEDIA
CURRICULUM