Selections
All these books were copyright in 1995:
An Island Like You: Stories of
the Barrio by Judith O. Cofer. (Orchard)
Children Just Like Me
by Barnabas & Anabel Kindersley. (Dorling Kindersley)
Earth, Fire, Water, Air
by Mary Hoffman. (Dutton)
From the Notebooks of
Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson.
(Scholastic)
Her Stories: African American
Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales by
Virginia Hamilton. (Blue Sky Press/Scholastic)
Immigrants by
Martin W. Sandler. (HarperCollins)
Leagues Apart: The Men
and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues by
Lawrence S. Ritter. (Morrow Junior)
Like Sisters on the Homefront
by Rita Williams-Garcia. (Lodestar/Dutton)
More Than Anything Else
by Marie Bradby. (Orchard)
Navajo Visions and Voices
Across the Mesa by Shonto Begay. (Scholastic)
Not Home by Ann
Grifalconi. (Little)
One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah
Story by David Adler. (Gulliver/Harcourt)
Parallel Journeys by
Eleanor H. Ayer. (Atheneum)
Sam and the Lucky Money
by Karen Chinn. (Lee & Low)
Skin Deep and Other Teenage
Reflections by Angela S. Medearis.
(Macmillan)
The Bomb by Theodore
Taylor. (Harcourt)
The Distant Talking Drum
by Issac Olaleye. (Boyds Mills Press)
The New King
by Doreen Rappaport. (Dial)
The Tree Is Older Than You Are:
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico
by Naomi Shihab Nye (selector). (Simon)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
1963 by Christopher Paul
Curtis. (Delacorte)
The Well: Davids Story
by Mildred D. Taylor. (Dial)
The Whispering Cloth:
A Refugee Story by Pegi Deitz Shea.
(Boyds Mills Press)
Thunder Cave by
Roland Smith. (Hyperion)
Tonight by Sea
by Frances Temple. (Orchard)
(Note: In the first year
of this program, 24 books were selected)
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Selection Committee
Yvonne
Siu-Runyan, Chair The University
of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Barbara Lehman
The Ohio State University at Mansfield, OH
Mary Jo Fresch The Ohio State University at
Marion, OH
Miriam Marecek Harvard University, Boston, MA
Amy
McClure Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
John Poeton Consultant, Barre, VT
Patricia Scharer The Ohio State University at Lima, OH
Elaine Vilscek The University of Northern Colorado, Greeley,
CO
Vienna Volante Oglethorpe University, Athens, GA
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(14/3), Spring 1996, pp. 14-23. For your convenience, a reprint
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