Selections
All these books were copyright in 2001:
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of
the Barrio by Tony Johnston. Il. by Raul Colon. (Blue
Sky/Scholastic)
Black Angels by Rita
Murphy. (Delacorte)
Brothers in Valor: A Story of Resistance
by Michael O. Tunnell. (Holiday House)
The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh
by Frederick Lipp. Il. by Ronald Himler. (Holiday House)
Carver: A Life in Poems
by Marilyn Nelson. (Front Street)
Celebrating Ramadan
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. Photographs by Lawrence Migdale. (Holiday
House)
Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales
from Vitenam by Sherry Garland. Il. by Trina Schart
Hyman. (Harcourt)
China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural
Revolution by Da Chen. (Delacorte Press)
Crazy Loco by David
Rice. (Dial)
Freedom School, Yes
by Amy Littlesugar. Il. by Floyd Cooper. (Philomel)
Gagu's House by Catherine
Stock. Il. by the author. (Clarion)
Girl of Kosovo by Alice
Mead. (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Gleam and Glow by Eve
Bunting. Il. by Peter Sylvada. (Harcourt)
Goin' Someplace Special
by Patricia McKissack. Il. by Jerry Pinkney. (Atheneum)
The Land by Mildred
Taylor. (Penguin Putnam)
The Name Jar by Yangsook
Choi. (Alfred A. Knopf)
Oranges on Golden Mountain
by Elizabeth Partridge. Il. by Aki Sogabe. (Dutton)
The Other Side by Jacqueline
Woodson. Il. by E. B. Lewis. (Putnam)
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
by Caroline Cooney. (Delacorte Press)
A Single Shard by Linda
Sue Park. (Clariion)
Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
by Michael L. Cooper. (Clarion)
A Step from Heaven by
Na An. (Front Street)
Uncle Rain Clous by
Tony Johnston. Il. by Fabricio VandenBroeck. (Charlesbridge)
Witness by Karen Hesse.
(Scholastic)
Zazoo by Richard Mosher.
(Clarion)
[top]
Selection
Committee
Evelyn Freeman, Co-Chair The
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Glenna Sloan,
Co-Chair Queens College - CUNY,
Flushing, NY
Fran Levin New Jersey City University, Toms River, NJ
Jeanne McGlinn University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
Marian J. McKenna, University of Montana at Missoula, MT
Lawrence Sipe University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Kenneth J. Weiss, Nazareth College of Rochester, NY
Karla Wendelin Norris Elementary School, NE
Junko Yokota National-Louis University, Evanston, IL
[top]
Reprints
This list (along with annotations, teaching ideas, and related
books for each title) is available in The Dragon Lode
(21/1), Fall 2002, pp. 12-28. For your convenience, a reprint
of this article is available for $2.50. This issue is also now
online (click Volume 21, No. 1, Fall,
then click 2002 Notable Books for a Global
Society).
Distinctive seals to place
on your books are also available.
Use the Subscription
and Membership Form so you can subscribe and not miss
forthcoming lists in this excellent series!
[top]
|