Publications
Recommended Reading list:
The Name Jar – Choi
I Love my Hair – Natasha Tarpley
Hairs/Pellitos – Sandra Cisneros
House on Mango Street, Cisneros
The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles
Getting Away with Murder, Crowe
Black, White, Just Right –Marguerite W. Davol
Black is Brown is Tan – Arnold Adoff
The absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Alexie
Grace for President – Kelly Dipucchio
Does My Head look Big in This, Abdel-Fattah
Before We Were Free, Alvarez
The Other Half of my Heart, Frazier
Those Shoes – Maribeth Boelts
The Other Side – Jacqueline Woodson (k-4)
If You Come Softly – Jacqueline Woodson
Show Way – Jacqueline Woodson (k-5)
Friends from the Other Side – Amigos del otro lado – Gloria Anzaldua
Upside-down Boy – Juan Felipe Herrera
New Boy, Houston
In My Family – En mi familia (k, 1, 2, 3) – Carmen Lomas Garza
Hip Hop Speaks to Children – Nikki Giovanni
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni (upper elementary)
Martin’s Big Words – Doreen Rappaport
Esperanza Rising, Ryan
Tiger Moon, Michaelis
Henry’s Freedom Box – Ellen Levine, Illustrated by Khadir Nelson (For teaching slavery in first grade)
Grandfather’s Journey – Allen Say (Say has a number of great books on Asian Americans)
Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes (also in Spanish – Crisanthemo)
Cleversticks – Bernard Ashley
The Colors of Us – Karen Katz
Cuba 15, Osa
Yoko – Rosemary Wells
Africa is not a Country – Margy Knight (1-4)
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of MLK – D. Rappaport
Everywhere Babies – Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee
Giving Thanks:A Native American Good Morning Message – Chief Jake Swamp
Anansi Does the Impossible: An Ashanti Tale (pre-K – 3) – Verna Aardema, Lisa Desimini
American Born Chinese, Yang
The Name Jar – Choi
I Love my Hair – Natasha Tarpley
Hairs/Pellitos – Sandra Cisneros
House on Mango Street, Cisneros
The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles
Getting Away with Murder, Crowe
Black, White, Just Right –Marguerite W. Davol
Black is Brown is Tan – Arnold Adoff
The absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, Alexie
Grace for President – Kelly Dipucchio
Does My Head look Big in This, Abdel-Fattah
Before We Were Free, Alvarez
The Other Half of my Heart, Frazier
Those Shoes – Maribeth Boelts
The Other Side – Jacqueline Woodson (k-4)
If You Come Softly – Jacqueline Woodson
Show Way – Jacqueline Woodson (k-5)
Friends from the Other Side – Amigos del otro lado – Gloria Anzaldua
Upside-down Boy – Juan Felipe Herrera
New Boy, Houston
In My Family – En mi familia (k, 1, 2, 3) – Carmen Lomas Garza
Hip Hop Speaks to Children – Nikki Giovanni
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni (upper elementary)
Martin’s Big Words – Doreen Rappaport
Esperanza Rising, Ryan
Tiger Moon, Michaelis
Henry’s Freedom Box – Ellen Levine, Illustrated by Khadir Nelson (For teaching slavery in first grade)
Grandfather’s Journey – Allen Say (Say has a number of great books on Asian Americans)
Chrysanthemum – Kevin Henkes (also in Spanish – Crisanthemo)
Cleversticks – Bernard Ashley
The Colors of Us – Karen Katz
Cuba 15, Osa
Yoko – Rosemary Wells
Africa is not a Country – Margy Knight (1-4)
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of MLK – D. Rappaport
Everywhere Babies – Susan Meyers, Marla Frazee
Giving Thanks:A Native American Good Morning Message – Chief Jake Swamp
Anansi Does the Impossible: An Ashanti Tale (pre-K – 3) – Verna Aardema, Lisa Desimini
American Born Chinese, Yang