Selections
All these books were copyright in 1999:
A Band of Angels
by Deborah Hopkinson. Il. by Raul Golon. (Atheneum)
Asphalt Angels
by Ineke Holtwijk. (Front Street)
At Her Magestys Request:
an African Princess in Victorian England by Walter
Dean Myers. (Scholastic)
Basket Moon by
Mary Lyn Ray. Il. by Barbara Cooney. (Little, Brown)
Birchbark House, The
by Louise Erdrich. (Hyperion)
Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis. (Delacorte )
Burning Up by
Caroline B. Cooney. (Delacorte)
Dance for the Land
by Clemence McLaren. (Atheneum)
Francie by Karen
English. (Farrar)
Hatseller and the Monkeys,
The by Baba Wague Diakite. Il. by author. (Scholastic)
In Search of the Spirit:
The Living National Treasures of Japan by Sheila
Hamanaka and Ayano Ohmi. (Morrow)
Lakota Hoop Dancer
by Jacqueline Left Hand Bull and Suzanne Haldane. Il. by Suzanne
Haldan. (Dutton)
Longwalkers Journey
by Beatrice O. Harrell. Il. by Tony Meers. (Dial)
Love as Strong as Ginger
by Lenore Look. Il. by Stephen T. Johnson. (Atheneum)
Magic Tree, The T.
Obinkaram Echewa. Il. by E. B. Lewis. (Morrow)
Memory Coat, The
by Elvira Woodruff. Il. by Michael Dooling. (Scholastic)
Molly Bannaky
by Alice McGill. Il. by Chris K. Soentpiet. (Houghton Mifflin)
One Belfast Boy
by Patricia McMahon. Il. by Alan OConnor. (Houghton Mifflin)
Raisels Riddle
by Erica Silverman. Il. by Susan Gaber. (Farrar )
Streets of Gold
by Rosemary Wells. Il. by Andreasen Wells. (Dial)
Strong to the Hoop
by John Coy. Leslie Jean-Bart. (Lee & Low)
Tea with Milk
by Allen Say. Il. by author. (Houghton Mifflin)
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges, edited by Margo Lundell. (Scholastic)
Walkers Crossing
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. (Atheneum)
Zack by William
Bell. (Simon & Schuster)
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Selection
Committee
Joan Glazer,
Chair Rhode Island College, Providence,
RI
Diane E. Bushner, Co-Chair Salem
State College, Salem , MA
Marcia Baghban
Queens College, Flushing, NY
Rosemary
Bamford University of Maine, Orono, ME
Evelyn Freeman The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Michael Opitz The University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo,
CO
Lawrence
Sipe University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Junko Yokota National-Louis University, Evanston, IL
Terrell A. Young Washington State University, Richland, WA
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