MULTICULTURAL BOOKS

Books About Muslims

Ghazali, A. (1996). Ramadan . New York: Holiday House

Ghazali, A. (1996). Dinner Time . Lebanon: IQRA.

American Indians

Ashabranner, B. (1993). To life in two worlds:American Indian youth today. New York: Dodd, Mead.

Freemond, D. (1994). The trail of tears. New York: Discovery.

O'Dell, S., & Hall, E. (1992). Thunder rolling in the mountains. Boston:Houghton Mifflin.

Wassaja. (1980). The football dispute. The Indian Historian, 13 (3), 45.

Japanese Internment

Chuman, F. (1979). The bamboo people: the law and Japanese-Americans. Del Mar, Calif.:Publisher's Inc.

Hongo, F. (1985). Japanese-American journey. San Mateo, Calif.: Japanese-American Curriculum Project.

Salisbury, G. (1994). I am an American. New York: Crown.

Salisbury, G. (1993). Under the blood-red sun. New York: Delacorte.

Uchida, Y. (1993). The bracelet. New York: Philomel.

U.S, Government. (1982). Personal justice denied: report of the commission on wartime relocation and internment of civilians. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.

African-American Pride

Abdul-Jabbar, K., & Steinberg, A. (1996) Black profiles in courage. New York: William Morrow.

Adler, D.A. (1986). Jackie Robinson: He was the first. New York: Holiday House.

Moore, J.T. (1988) Pride against prejudice: The biography of Larry Doby. New York: Praeger.

Paulsen, g. (1993). Nightjohn. New York: Laurel-Leaf.

Holocaust

Bunting, E. (1993). Terrible things: an allegory of the Holocaust. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society.

Innocenti, R. (1996). Rose Blanch, Mankoto, MN: Creative Editions.

Matas,C. (1993). Daniel's Story. New York: Scholastic.

Yolen, J. (1990). The devil's arithmetic. New York: Puffin.

Other Good Titles

Bode, J. (1989). New kids on the block: oral stories of immigrant teens. New York: Franklin Watts.

Dooley, N. (1991). Everybody cooks rice. Minneapolis:Carolhoda Books.

Durrell, A. & Sachs, M., (1990). The big book for peace. New York: E.P. Dutton.

Fisher, M. (1989). Women and the third world. New York: Franklin Watts.

Hewett, J. (1990). Hector lives in the United States now. New York: J.B. Lippin-Cott.

Jennes, A., & Rivers, A. (1989). In two worlds: a Yup'ik Eskimo family. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Waters, K.,& Slovenz, M. (1990). Lion dancer. New York: Scholastic.

Zinn, h. (1990). Declarations of independence. New York: Harper Collins.

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