12 Multicultural Novels
12 Multicultural Novels

Author: Monica Wood

Publisher: Walch Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780825129018

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Incorporate multicultural literature easily into your English program! Vivid stories that captivate the imagination and expand cultural understanding offer effective teaching strategies. This literature guide; gives you effective teaching strategies and complete material for 12 novels by writers from diverse cultures and ethnic backgrounds. The novels are: Ellen Foster, Reservation Blues; Shizuko's Daughter; The House on Mango Street; Somewhere in the Darkness; Make Lemonade; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; MAUS: A Survivor's Tale; The Long Season of Rain; Jesse; Allegra Maud Goldman; and The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan. Included for each novel are chapter-by chapter synopses, teaching notes, discussion questions and suggested responses, and a reading quiz and answer key.

An Island Like You
An Island Like You

Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0545281547

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Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpre award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.

Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom
Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom

Author: Ricki Ginsberg

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0429629559

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With a focus on fostering democratic, equitable education for young people, Ginsberg and Glenn’s engaging text showcases a wide variety of innovative, critical classroom approaches that extend beyond traditional literary theories commonly used in K-12 and higher education classrooms and provides opportunities to explore young adult (YA) texts in new and essential ways. The chapters pair YA texts with critical practices and perspectives for culturally affirming and sustaining teaching and include resources, suggested titles, and classroom strategies. Following a consistent structure, each chapter provides foundational background on a key critical approach, applies the approach to a focal YA text, and connects the approach to classroom strategies designed to encourage students to think deeply and critically about texts, themselves, and the world. Offering a wealth of innovative pedagogical tools, this comprehensive volume offers opportunities for students and their teachers to explore key and emerging topics, including culture, (dis)ability, ethnicity, gender, immigration, race, sexual orientation, and social class.

Multicultural Children’s Literature
Multicultural Children’s Literature

Author: Ambika Gopalakrishnan

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010-04-22

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1452212902

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This book is designed to prepare K-12 preservice and inservice teachers to address the social, cultural, and critical issues of our times through the use of multicultural children's books. It will be used as a core textbook in courses on multicultural children's literature and as a supplement in courses on children's literature and social studies teaching methods. It can also be used as a supplement in courses on literacy, reading, language arts, and multicultural education.

House of Purple Cedar
House of Purple Cedar

Author: Tim Tingle

Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 193595525X

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“The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville.” Thus begins the House of Purple Cedar, Rose Goode’s telling of the year when she was eleven in Indian country, Oklahoma. The Indian schools boys and girls had been burned, stores too. By the time the railroad came, all of Skullyville had been burned.

No Crystal Stair
No Crystal Stair

Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482

Published: 2018-03

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1541514912

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In this work of historical fiction, Nelson tells the story of a man with a passion for knowledge and of a bookstore whose influence has become legendary.

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History

Author: Vashti Harrison

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0316475165

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Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller. An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include writer James Baldwin, artist Aaron Douglas, filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, lawman Bass Reeves, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, and musician Prince. The legends in Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History span centuries and continents, but each one has blazed a trail for generations to come.

A Step from Heaven
A Step from Heaven

Author: An Na

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1481442368

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Originally published: Alpine, Texas: Front Street Press, 2001.

La Línea
La Línea

Author: Ann Jaramillo

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2016-01-12

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1250111234

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Over a decade since its publication, Ann Jaramillo's heartbreaking middle grade novel La Linea—about crossing the Mexican border into the US—is more timely than ever. Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in California since the day they left him behind in Mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, Miguel's wait is over. Or so he thinks. The trip north to the border—la línea—is fraught with dangers. Thieves. Border guards. And a grueling, two-day trek across the desert. It would be hard enough to survive alone. But it's almost impossible with his tagalong sister in tow. Their money gone and their hopes nearly dashed, Miguel and his sister have no choice but to hop the infamous mata gente as it races toward the border. As they cling to the roof of the speeding train, they hold onto each other, and to their dreams. But they quickly learn that you can't always count on dreams—even the ones that come true.

Multicultural Children's Literature
Multicultural Children's Literature

Author: Donna E. Norton

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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With the growing number of ethnic minority students in public schools, it is very important for teachers, librarians, and all those who work with children to have an understanding of appropriate multicultural literature. This book and the literature selections are designed to develop heightened sensitivity and understanding of people from various cultures and traditions through the selection of carefully chosen literature. It includes a balance of research about the culture and the literature, a discussion of authentic literature for students from early childhood through young adults, and teaching activities designed to develop higher cognitive abilities. The book uses a unique five-phase approach for the study of multicultural literature that has been field tested.