Recommendations for Books that Foster Multicultural Awareness for Youth

General Multicultural Texts

· "Year of Impossible Goodbyes," by Sook Nyui Choi
· "Journey to Jo'burg, A South African Story" by Beverly Naidoo
· "Journey Home," by Yoshiko Uchida
· "Waiting for Anya," by Michael Morpurgo
· "Bull Run," by Paul Fleischman
· "Children of the River, Cambodia to America" by Linda Crew
· "Jesse," by Gary Soto
· "Summer of My German Soldier," by Betty Greene
· "Sadako and the Paper Cranes," by Eleanor Coerr
· "The Life and Death of Crazy Horse," by Russell Freedman
· "Things Fall Apart," by Chinua Achebe

Latino/a Focus
· "The House on Mango Street," by Sandra Cisneros
· "An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio," by Judith Ortiz Cofer
· "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories," by Sandra Cisneros
· "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child," by Francisco Jiminez
·  "Living Up the Street," by Gary Soto
· "Parrot in the Oven: mi vida," by Victor Martinez
· "This Migrant Earth," by Rolando Hinojosa
· "Cuba 15," by Nacy Osa
· "Esperanza Rising," by Pam Munoz Ryan
·  "Red Hot Salsa," Edited by Lori M. Carlson

African-American Focus

· "Nightjohn," by Gary Paulsen
· "The Tears of the Tiger," by Sharon Draper
· "The Hundred Penny Box," by Sharon Mathis Bell
· "Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers," by Patricia C. and Frederick L. McKissack
· "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry," by MIldred D. Taylor
· "Monster," by Walter Dean Myers
· "Tyrell," by Coe Booth
· "Dear America: Color Me Dark," The Dairy of Nellie Lee Love
· "Slam," by Walter Dean Myers
· "Witness," by Karen Hesse