- Amazing Grace.
Mary Hoffman. JP H
- In her imagination, Grace
can be anything she wants to be. (African American).
- Aunt Flossie's Hats
(and Crab Cakes Later). Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Howard. JP H
- Two little girls listen
to their aunt tell stories inspired by her hat collection.
(African American).
- A Bear for Miguel.
Elaine Marie Alphin. JR A
- 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.
Arnold Adoff. JR
- A child of biracial parents
explores the colors in his life. (Biracial).
- The Boy of the Three-Year
Nap. Dianne Snyder. JP
- Lazy Taro has a plan for
marrying the daughter of the richest man in town.
(Japanese).
- Butterfly Boy.
Virginia Kroll. JP
- Emilio and his grandfather
look forward to the return of the butterflies in
the spring. (Mexican).
- Chin Chiang and the
Dragon's Dance. Ian Wallace. JP
- Chin Chiang worries that
he isn't good enough to dance in the New Year's
Parade. (Chinese American).
- Chinatown. William
Low. JP
- A boy and his grandmother
explore the wonders of Chinatown. (Chinese
American).
- Crow Boy. Taro
Yashima. JP
- The quietest boy in the
school turns out to have an amazing talent.
(Japanese).
- Daddy Calls Me Man.
Angela Johnson. JP
- A simple story poem about
a boy and his family. (African American).
- Dreamcatcher. Audrey
Osofsky. JP
- A homemade dreamcatcher
guards the sleep of a baby. (Native American).
- The Drinking Gourd.
F.N. Monjo. JR
- Tommy discovers that his
father is helping slaves escape on the Underground
Railroad. (African American).
- Faraway Drums.
Virginia Kroll. JP
- A girl comforts her little
sister with stories when they are left alone while
their mother works. (African American).
- Flossie and the Fox.
Patricia C. McKissack. JP
- On her way to deliver some
eggs, Flossie encounters an egg-loving fox.
(African American).
- Galimoto. Karen
Lynn Williams. JP
- An enterprising boy gathers
enough wire from around his village to build himself
a galimoto. (African (Malawi)).
- The Goat in the Rug.
Charles L. Blood & Martin Link. JP
- Geraldine the goat tells
how her Navajo friend made a rug from her wool.
(Native American).
- Hill of Fire. Thomas
P. Lewis. JR
- While plowing, a Mexican
farmer and his son witness the birth of a volcano.
(Mexican).
- The Hummingbirds' Gift.
Stefan Czernecki. JP
- A family in Mexico learn
how to make small figures from straw from the hummingbirds
they saved from death. (Mexican).
- Jamaica's Find.
Juanita Havill. JP
- 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).
- Joshua's Masai Mask.
Dakari Hru. JP
- With the aid of a magic
mask, Joshua learns that it's best just to be himself.
(African American).
- Knots on a Counting
Rope. Bill Martin Jr. JP
- A blind Indian boy listens
to his grandfather tell the story of his birth.
(Native American).
- Liang and the Magic
Paintbrush. Demi. JP
- Liang uses his magic paintbrush
to paint good things for his people until a greedy
emperor tries to take it from him. (Chinese).
- Little Oh. Laura
Krauss Melmed. JP
- A mother tells her son
the story of an origami child who became separated
from her mother. (Japanese).
- The Little Painter
of Sabana Grande. Patricia Maloney Markun.
JP
- Fernando wants desperately
to paint, but he has no paper. Finally, his
parents give him permission to paint the outside
of the house. (Panamanian).
- Ma Dear's Aprons.
Patricia C. McKissack. JP
- Young David Earl helps
his mother with her chores through the week.
(African American).
- Madelia. Jan Spivey
Gilchrist. JP
- Listening to the words
of her preacher father in church, Madelia sees beautiful
pictures in her imagination. (African American).
- The Magic Moonberry
Jump Ropes. Dakari Hru. JP
- 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. Sylvia Rosa-Casanova. JP
- 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.
Eloise Greenfield. JP
- A little girl's imaginary
friend disappears on the day she starts school.
(African American).
- Mrs. Moskowitz and
the Sabbath Candlesticks. Amy Schwartz. JP
- Mrs. Moskowitz decorates
her new apartment to suit her treasured candlesticks.
(Jewish).
- Nappy Hair. Carolivia
Herron. JP
- Uncle Mordecai tells the
family story of how Brenda came to have the nappiest
hair in the world. (African American).
- Oh, No, Toto! Katrin
Hyman Tchana. JP
- Hungry little Toto gets
into everything when his grandmother takes him to
the market. (African).
- Pablo's Tree. Pat
Mora. JP
- Every year, Pablo's grandfather
decorates the tree he planted on the day of his
grandson's adoption. (Mexican American).
- Peach Boy. William
H. Hooks. JR
- Momotaro saves his village
from the wicked oni, with help from a dog, a monkey,
and a hawk. A Japanese folktale. (Japanese).
- Ragtime Tumpie.
Alan Schroeder. JP
- 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. David
Wisniewski. JP
- 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.
Jane Yolen. JP
- Young Matthew relates how
he helps on his family's farm and how the neighbors
help when their barn burns down. (Amish).
- Red Bird. Barbara
Mitchell. JP
- A modern Nanticoke family
attends an annual powwow. (Native American).
- Running Owl the Hunter.
Nathaniel Benchley. JR
- Trying to show he is big
enough to go on a buffalo hunt, Running Owl tries
to steal a feather from a eagle. (Native American).
- Somewhere in Africa.
Ingrid Mennen. JP
- Ashraf dreams of the wilds
of Africa, but he loves his home in the city. (African).
- The Talking Cloth.
Rhonda Mitchell. JP
- Amber learns about adinkra
cloth from her Aunt Phoebe. (African American).
- The Village Basket
Weaver. Jonathan London. JP
- Tavio learns how to be
the next basket weaver of his village from his grandfather.
(African Caribbean).
- The Village of Round
and Square Houses. Ann Grifalconi. JP
- Gran'ma Tika tells the
story of how their village came to have both round
and square houses. (African).
- Wagon Wheels. Barbara
Brenner. JR
- 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).
- Beautiful Warrior:
The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu. Emily Arnold
McCully. JFIC
- 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.
Yoshiko Uchida. JFIC
- 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. Yoshiko
Uchida. JFIC
- A little girl loses the
bracelet her best friend gave her before her family
was moved to an internment camp. (Japanese American).
- Dragonwings. Laurence
Yep. JFIC
- In early 1900 California,
a young boy comes to share his father's dream of
flying. A Newbery winner. (Chinese American).
- Elijah's Angel.
Michael J. Rosen. JFIC
- A Jewish boy worries about
accepting the angel his elderly black friend carved
for him. (Jewish/African American).
- I Hate English!
Ellen Levine. JFIC
- Mei Mei refuses to learn
English, until a new teacher comes to her school
to work especially with her. (Chinese American).
- Justin and the Best
Biscuits in the World. Mildred Pitts Walter.
JFIC
- A boy in a family of females
values the time he spends with his grandfather.
(African American).
- Matzoh Mouse. Lauren
L. Wohl. JFIC
- Getting ready for Passover,
a young girl finds the chocolate-covered matzoh
intended for dessert to be irresistable. (Jewish).
- On the Wings of Eagles.
Jeffrey Schrier. JFIC
- The story of the rescue
of thousands of Ethiopian Jews from the point of
view of a young survivor. (Jewish/African).
- Onion Tears. Diana
Kidd. JFIC
- A Vietnamese girl living
with a foster family in Australia misses her family
more than she can say. (Vietnamese).
- Pacific Crossing.
Gary Soto. JFIC
- A Mexican-American teenager
spends a summer in Japan as an exchange student.
(Mexican American/Japanese)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear
My Cry. Mildred D. Taylor. JFIC
- Cassie Logan and her family
experience prejudice during the Depression.
A Newbery winner. (African American).
- Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes. Eleanor Coerr. JFIC
- 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. Stella Pevsner and Fay Tang. JFIC
- A little girl in North
Vietnam doesn't understand the war that brings so
much hardship to her family. (Vietnamese).
- The Skirt. Gary
Soto. JFIC
- 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.
Allen Say. JFIC
- In Japan, a young boy's
American mother tells him about the holiday of Christmas.
(Japanese).
- When I Left My Village.
Maxine Rose Schur. JFIC
- Menelik tells the story
of his family's escape from Ethiopia to Israel.
(Jewish).
- The World of Daughter
McGuire. Sharon Dennis Wyeth. JFIC
- A child of mixed heritage
discovers more about her background when she does
a project for school. (Interracial).
- Ajeemah and His Son.
James Berry. YFIC
- A father and his son are
each affected differently by their experiences as
slaves in 19th-century Jamaica. (Afrian/Jamaican).
- Annie's Promise.
Sonia Levitin. JFIC
- 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).
- Another Way to Dance.
Martha Southgate. YFIC
- A teenager must come to
terms with the reality of her parents' divorce,
her crush on Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the impact
of being an African American on her future as a
dancer. (African American).
- April and the Dragon
Lady. Lensey Namioka. YFIC
- Feeling confined by the
traditional family attitudes of her grandmother,
a teenager fights for her independence. (Chinese
American).
- The Bridges of Summer.
Brenda Seabrooke. JFIC
- When she comes to stay
on a small South Carolina island, 14 year-old Zarah
gradually accepts her grandmother's Gullah traditions.
(African American).
- Broken Bridge.
Lynne Reid Banks. YFIC
- The murder of a boy, soon
after his arrival in Israel, has a dramatic effect
on the lives of his relatives, the other members
of their kibbutz, and the Arabs responsible for
his death. (Jewish/Arab).
- Children of the River.
Linda Crew. YFIC
- A teenage girl is torn
between remaining faithful to her own people and
adjusting to life in her Oregon high school.
(Cambodian).
- Crazy Weekend.
Gary Soto. JFIC
- After their photograph
of a robbery is published in the newspaper, Hector
and Mando find themselves pursued by two goofy thieves.
(Hispanic American).
- Danger Zone. David
Klass. YFIC
- When he joins a basketball
team that will represent the United States in an
international tournament, Jimmy Doyle makes some
unexpected discoveries about prejudice, racism and
politics. (African American).
- Dangerous Skies.
Suzanne Staples. YFIC
- This heartbreaking story
of betrayal and hypocrisy is centered around two
friends growing up on Virginia's Eastern Shore:
Buck Smith, descended from settlers who came from
England in the 1700, and Tunes Smith, descended
from their slaves. (Race Relations).
- Dawn Rider. Jan
Hudson. JFIC
- 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).
- Echoes of the White
Giraffe. Sook Nyul Choi. JFIC
- Fifteen year-old Sookan
adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan.
(Korean).
- Gathering of Pearls.
Sook Nyul Choi. YFIC
- Sookan struggles to balance
her new life as a college freshman in the United
States with the expectations from her family at
home in Korea. (Korean).
- A Girl Named Disaster.
Nancy Farmer. YFIC
- While journeying to Zimbabwe,
young Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation.
(African).
- Grab Hands and Run.
Frances Temple. YFIC
- After his father disappears,
Felipe, his mother, and his younger sister set out
on a difficult and dangerous journey from El Salvador
to Canada. (Salvadoran).
- Hang a Thousand Trees
With Ribbons. Ann Rinaldi. YFIC
- A fictionalized biography
of Phyllis Wheatley. (African American).
- Heart of a Jaguar.
Marc Talbert. YFIC
- In the year 1200, a Mayan
boy participates in prayers and rituals meant
to appease the gods and bring the rains. (Mayan).
- I Hadn't Meant to Tell
You This. Jacqueline Woodson. YFIC
- Marie, the only black girl
in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white
classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is
doing horrible things to her. (African American).
- Journey of the Sparrows.
Fran Leeper Buss. YFIC
- Maria and her brother and
sister are smuggled into the United States and try
to eke out a living in Chicago with a sympathetic
family. (Salvadoran).
- Julie. Jean Craighead
George. JFIC
- 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.
Anilu Bernardo. JFIC
- 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).
- Letters from Rifka.
Karen Hesse. JFIC
- In letters to her cousin,
a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight
from Russia in 1919. (Jewish).
- My Home is Over Jordan.
Sandra Forrester. JFIC
- Now that the Civil War
is over, 15-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an
education. (African American).
- Plain City. Virginia
Hamilton. JFIC
- 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).
- Ribbons. Laurence
Yep. JFIC
- Robin, a promising young
ballet student, cannot afford to continue lessons
when her grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong. (Chinese
American).
- Run Away Home.
Patricia McKissack. JFIC
- In 1886 Alabama, a young
African American girl and her family befriend a
runaway Apache boy. (African American/Native
American).
- Shizuko's Daughter.
Kyoko Mori. YFIC
- After her mother's suicide,
Yuki spends years living with her distant father
and his resentful new wife (Japanese).
- Sweetgrass. Jan
Hudson. YFIC
- A 15-year-old Blackfoot
Indian girl saves her family from a smallpox epidemic
and proves her maturity to her father. (Blackfoot
Indian).
- Taste of Salt.
Frances Temple. YFIC
- A young Haitian tells the
story of his life to a young woman who, like him,
has been working with the social reformer Father
Aristide to fight the repression in Haiti.
(Haitian).
- The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963.
Christopher Curtis. YFIC
- An African American family
from Michigan is drastically changed after they
go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of
1963. (African American).
- The Well: David's
Story. Mildred D. Taylor. JFIC
- 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).
- With Every Drop of
Blood. James Lincoln Collier. JFIC
- While trying to transport
food to Virginia during the Civil War, 14 year-old
Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier. (African
American).
- The World in Grandfather's
Hands. Craig Strete. JFIC
- His grandfather's philosophy
helps Jimmy adjust to his family's move from the
pueblo to the city after his father's death.
(Native American).
- Year of Impossible
Goodbyes. Sook Nyul Choi. JFIC
- 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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