 Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman JP HOF
In her imagination, Grace can be anything she wants to be. (African American)
Aunt
Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard JP HOW
Two little girls listen to their aunt tell stories inspired by her hat collection.
(African American)
A
Bear for Miguel by Elaine Marie Alphin JR
ALP
A little girl in El Salvador helps her papa trade for the things their family
needs when she trades away her stuffed bear. (Salvadoran)
Black
is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff JR
ADO
A child of biracial parents explores the
colors in his life. (Biracial)
The
Boy of the Three-Year Nap by Dianne Snyder JP
SNY
Lazy Taro has a plan for marrying the daughter
of the richest man in town. (Japanese)
Butterfly
Boy by Virginia Kroll JP KRO
Emilio and his grandfather look forward
to the return of the butterflies in the spring.
(Mexican)
Chinatown by
William Low JP LOW
A boy and his grandmother explore the wonders of Chinatown. (Chinese American)
Crow
Boy by Taro Yashima JP YAS
The quietest boy in the school turns out to
have an amazing talent. (Japanese)
Daddy
Calls Me Man by Angela Johnson JP JOH
A simple story poem about a boy and his family. (African American)
Dreamcatcher by
Audrey Osofsky JP OSO
A homemade dreamcatcher guards the sleep of a baby. (Native American)
The
Drinking Gourd by F.N. Monjo JR MON
Tommy discovers that his father is helping
slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
(African American)
Flossie
and the Fox by Patricia C. McKissack JP
MCK
On her way to deliver some eggs, Flossie encounters an egg-loving fox. (African
American)
Galimoto by
Karen Lynn Williams JP WILL
An enterprising boy gathers enough wire from around his village to build himself
a galimoto. (African (Malawi)
The
Goat in the Rug by Charles L. Blood JP BLO
Geraldine the goat tells how her Navajo friend made a rug from her wool. (Native
American)
Hill
of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis JR LEW
While plowing, a Mexican farmer and his son
witness the birth of a volcano. (Mexican)
Jamaica's Find by
Juanita Havill JP HAV
Jamaica is torn when she brings a stuffed dog
she finds on the playground home instead of turning
it in to the Lost and Found. (African American)
Knots on a Counting
Rope by Bill Martin Jr. JP MAR
A blind Indian boy listens to his grandfather
tell the story of his birth. (Native American)
Little
Oh by Laura Krauss Melmed JP MEL
A mother tells her son the story of an origami child who became separated from
her mother. (Japanese)
Ma
Dear's Aprons by Patricia C. McKissack JP
MCK
Young David Earl helps his mother with
her chores through the week. (African American)
The
Magic Moonberry Jump Ropes Dakari Hru JP
HRU
After receiving a gift of moonberry jump ropes
from their uncle, two little girls get their whole
street involved in jumping. (African American)
Mama
Provi and the Pot of Rice by Sylvia Rosa-Casanova JP
ROS
A Puerto-Rican grandmother visits her sick
granddaughter, carrying a pot of rice. On the
way, she exchanges portions with neighbors
who have cooking specialties of their own.
(Multicultural)
Me
and Neesie by Eloise Greenfield JP
GRE
A little girl's imaginary friend disappears
on the day she starts school. (African American)
Nappy
Hair by Carolivia Herron JP HER
Uncle Mordecai tells the family story of how
Brenda came to have the nappiest hair in the world.
(African American)
Oh,
No, Toto! by Katrin Hyman Tchana JP
TCH
Hungry little Toto gets into everything when his grandmother takes him to the
market. (African)
Pablo's
Tree by Pat Mora JP MOR
Every year, Pablo's grandfather decorates the tree he planted on the day of his
grandson's adoption. (Mexican American)
Peach
Boy by William H. Hooks JR HOO
Momotaro saves his village from the wicked oni, with help from a dog, a monkey,
and a hawk. A Japanese folktale. (Japanese)
Ragtime
Tumpie by Alan Schroeder JP SCH
Growing up in St. Louis in 1915, Tumpie
dreams of becoming a honky-tonk dancer. Based
on the childhood of Josephine Baker. (African
American)
Rain
Player by David Wisniewski JP WIS
When
Pik speaks slightingly of the gods, he is challenged
to a game of pok-a-tok by the rain god. The game
will result in either good fortune for his people
or calamity for himself. (Mayan)
Raising
Yoder's Barn by Jane Yolen JP YOL
Young Matthew relates how he helps on his
family's farm and how the neighbors help when
their barn burns down. (Amish)
Red
Bird by Barbara Mitchell JP MIT
A modern Nanticoke family attends an annual powwow. (Native American)
The
Talking Cloth by Rhonda Mitchell JP
MIT
Amber learns about adinkra cloth from her Aunt Phoebe. (African American)
The
Village Basket Weaver by Jonathan London JP
LON
Tavio learns how to be the next basket
weaver of his village from his grandfather.
(African Caribbean)
The
Village of Round and Square Houses by
Ann Grifalconi JP GRI
Gran'ma Tika tells the story of how their village came to have both round and
square houses. (African)
Wagon
Wheels by Barbara Brenner JR BRE
Three little boys survive on their own when their father leaves them to look
for a better home for the family. Based on a true story of black pioneers after
the Civil War. (African American)
 Annie's
Promise by Sonia Levitin JFIC LEV
Her experiences at a summer camp in the California
mountains in 1945 give 12 year-old Annie Platt insight
into her overprotective family of German-Jewish
immigrants. Sequel to Silver Days. (Jewish-German/American)
Beautiful
Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu by
Emily Arnold McCully JFIC MCC
Wu Mei, a legendary warrior, gives Mingyi
intense lessons in Kung Fu so that the girl
can overcome a bully who wants to marry her.
(Chinese)
The
Best Bad Thing by Yoshiko Uchida JFIC
UCH
Rinko is disappointed (at first) when
she is asked to spend the last month of her
summer vacation helping an elderly friend of
the family. Set in 1935. (Japanese American)
The
Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida JFIC UCH
A little girl loses the bracelet her best friend
gave her before her family was moved to an internment
camp. (Japanese American)
Crazy
Weekend by Gary Soto JFIC SOT
After their photograph of a robbery is published
in the newspaper, Hector and Mando find themselves
pursued by two goofy thieves. (Hispanic American)
Dawn
Rider by Jan Hudson JFIC HUD
Kit Fox's 16th year is filled with preparations for an important buffalo run,
talk of her older sister's coming marriage, and skirmishes with their tradition
enemy, the Snakes. (Native American)
Dragonwings by
Laurence Yep JFIC YEP
In early 1900 California, a young boy comes to
share his father's dream of flying. A Newbery winner.
(Chinese American)
Echoes
of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul
Choi JFIC CHO
Fifteen year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the
refugee village in Pusan. (Korean)
Freedom
on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by
Carole Boston Weatherford, 1956- JFIC
WEA
After four courageous black teens sat down at a
lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960,
the reverberations were felt both far beyond and
close to home. This insightful story offers a child's-eye
view of this seminal event in the American Civil
Rights Movement. (African American)
Henry's
Freedom Box by Emily Arnold McCully JFIC
MCC
In this powerful story, Levine weaves together
the extraordinary events in the life of Henry "Box" Brown,
who as a young boy hid in a wooden crate in one
of the most amazing escapes using the Underground
Railroad. (African American)
I
Hate English! by Ellen Levine JFIC LEV
Mei Mei refuses to learn English, until a new teacher comes to her school to
work especially with her. (Chinese American)
Julie by
Jean Craighead George JFIC GEO
When Julie returns to her Father's Eskimo village,
she struggles to find a way to save her beloved
wolves, and falls in love with a young Siberian
man. (Eskimo)
Jumping
Off to Freedom by Anilu Bernardo JFIC
BER
A 15-year-old boy and his father flee Cuba and
seek freedom by taking to the sea on a raft headed
for Miami. (Cuban)
Justin
and the Best Biscuits in the World by
Mildred Pitts Walter JFIC WAL
A boy in a family of females values the time he
spends with his grandfather. (African American)
Letters
from Rifka by Karen Hesse JFIC
HES
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles
her family's flight from Russia in 1919. (Jewish)
Lowji
Discovers America by Candace Fleming JFIC
FLE
A nine-year-old East Indian boy tries to adjust to his new life in suburban America.
(Indian American)
Matzoh
Mouse by Lauren L. Wohl JFIC WOH
Getting ready for Passover, a young girl finds the
chocolate-covered matzoh intended for dessert to
be irresistable. (Jewish)
Onion
Tears by Diana Kidd JFIC KID
A Vietnamese girl living with a foster family
in Australia misses her family more than she can
say. (Vietnamese)
Pacific Crossing by Gary Soto JFIC SOT
A Mexican-American teenager spends a summer in Japan as an exchange student. (Mexican American/Japanese)
Plain
City by Virginia Hamilton JFIC HAM
Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels
out of place, struggles to unearth her past and
her family history as she gradually discovers more
and more about her long-missing father. (African
American)
Project
Mulberry: A Novel by Linda Sue Park JFIC
PAR
While working on a project for an after-school
club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend
Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also
about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience,
and more. (Korean American)
Ribbons by
Laurence Yep JFIC YEP
Robin, a promising young ballet student, cannot afford to continue lessons when
her grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong. (Chinese American)
Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D.
Taylor JFIC TAY
Cassie Logan and her family experience prejudice during the Depression. A Newbery
winner. (African American)
Run
Away Home by Patricia McKissack JFIC
MCK
In 1886 Alabama, a young African American girl and her family befriend a runaway
Apache boy. (African American/Native American)
Sadako
and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor
Coerr JFIC COE
Stricken with leukemia 10 years after she
survives the bombing of Hiroshima, Sadako tries
to fold a thousand origami cranes so the gods
will grant her wish for health. (Japanese)
Sing
for Your Father, Su Phan by Stella
Pevsner and Fay Tang JFIC PEV
A little girl in North Vietnam doesn't
understand the war that brings so much hardship
to her family. (Vietnamese)
The
Skirt by Gary Soto JFIC SOT
When
Miata leaves the precious skirt she brought in for
show-and-tell on the bus, she must find a way to
get it back before her parents realize it is missing.
(Mexican American)
Tree
of Cranes by Allen Say JFIC SAY
In Japan, a young boy's American mother
tells him about the holiday of Christmas. (Japanese)
The
Well: David's Story by Mildred D. Taylor JFIC
TAY
Set in Mississippi in the early 1900s. Young
David Logan's family generously shares their well
water with both white and black neighbors in an
atmosphere of potential racial violence. (African
American)
When
Heaven Fell by Carolyn Marsden JFIC
MAR
When a Vietnamese girl receives a visit from her half-American aunt, brimming
curiosity and cultural misperceptions come to the fore. (Vietnam)
With
Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier JFIC COL
While trying to transport food to Virginia during the Civil War, 14 year-old
Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier. (African American)
Year
of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi JFIC CHO
A young Korean girl survives the Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea
during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. (Korean) |
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