Selections
All these books were copyright in 2000:
Adelaine Falling Star
by Mary Pope Osborne. (Scholastic)
Anne Frank: A Hidden Life
by Mirjam Pressler. Translated by Anthea Bell. (Dutton)
Blanca's Feather by
Antonio Hernandez Madrigal. Il. by Gerando Suzan. (Rising Moon)
The Butterfly by Patricia
Polacco. (Philomel Books)
The Color of My Words
by Lynn Joseph. (HarperCollins)
The Darkest Corner by
Mildred Barger Herschler. (Front Street)
Dream Freedom bySonia
Levitin. (Harcourt)
Esperanza Rising by
Pam Munoz Ryan. (Scholastic Press)
Faraway Home by Jane
Kurtz. Il. by E. B. Lewis. (Harcourt Gulliver Books)
Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin
by Susan Goldman Rubin. (Holiday House)
Forgotten Fire by Adam
Bagdasarian. (Dorling Kindersly)
Homeless Bird by Gloria
Whelan. (HarperCollins)
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's
Daughter by Alan Govenar. Il. by Shane W. Evans.
(Hyperion)
Samir and Yonatan by
Daniella Carmi; translated by Yael Lotan. (Scholastic)
Salsa Stories by Lulu
Delacre. (Scholastic Press)
Shiva's Fire by Suzanne
Fisher Staples. (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Sitting Bull and His World
by Albert Marrin. (Dutton)
A Special Fate: Chiune Sagihara: Hero
of the Holocaust by Alison Leslie Gold. (Scholastic)
Torn Thread by Anne
Issacs. (Scholastic Press)
The Trip Back Home by
Janet S. Wong. Il. by Bo Jia. (Harcourt)
The Upside Down Boy, El Nino de Cabeza.
by Juan Felipe Herrera. Il. by Elizabeth Gomez (Children's Book
Press)
Uptown by Bryan Collier.
(Henry Holt)
The Year of Miss Agness
by Kirkpatrick Hill. (Simon and Schuster)
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King
Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy. Il.
by Henri Sorensen. (Peachtree Publications)
Yoshi's Feast by Kimiko
Kajikawa. Il. by Yumi Heo. (DK Ink)
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Selection
Committee
Diane E. Bushner,
Chair Salem State College, Salem ,
MA
Evelyn Freeman, Co-Chair The
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Marcia Baghban Queens College, Flushing, NY
Fran Levin New Jersey City University, Toms River, NJ
Lawrence Sipe University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Glenna Sloan Queens College - CUNY, Flushing, NY
Kenneth J. Weiss Nazareth College Rochester, NY
Junko Yokota National-Louis University, Evanston, IL
Terrell A. Young Washington State University, Richland, WA
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This list (along with annotations, teaching ideas, and related
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(20/1), Fall 2001, pp. 34-50. For your convenience, a reprint
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