Notable Books for a Global Society 2014.

Notable Books for a Global Society 2014

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Meet one or more criteria from this section

• Portray cultural accuracy and authenticity of characters in terms of: (a) physical characteristics (b) intellectual abilities and problem solving capabilities (c) leadership and cooperative dimensions(d) social and economic status

• Be rich in cultural details

Criteria for selection Part I :

• Honor and celebrate diversity as well as common bonds in humanity;

• Provide in-depth treatment of cultural issues;

• Include characters within a cultural group or between two or more cultural groups who interact substantively and authentically;

• Include members of a “minority” group for a purpose other than filling a “quota.”

Part IIMeet ALL criteria from this section

• Invite reflection, critical analysis, and response

• Demonstrate unique language or style

• Meet generally-accepted criteria of quality for the genre in which they are written

• Have an appealing format and be of enduring quality

Picture Books

The chickens build a wall

http://eerdword.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/q-why-did-the-chickens-build-a-wall/

http://www.eerdmans.com/common/pdf/ChickensBuildaWall_coloringpage.pdf

http://www.planetatangerina.com/en/authors/isabel-minhos-martins

Isobel Minhós Martins

http://www.planetatangerina.com/en/authors/isabel-minhos-martins

http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=15163

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1ikQioetM

http://librarianinacandyshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/pancho-rabbit-and-coyote-by-duncan.html

http://duncantonatiuh.wordpress.com/

Resources for Pancho and the Coyote:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/06/illegal-immigration-childrens-book/2050115/

Set in Mauritania.

Tradition of the malafa.

http://www.kellycunnaneauthor.com/cultural-workshops/

http://www.ericwalters.net/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnL-sjNdLuk

Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2AuN8uqRE

http://www.ericwalters.net/novels/my-name-is-blessing/

http://creationofhope.com/

P A U L F L E I S C H M A N

Teacher’s guide: http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763646016.btg.1.pdf

Make a Matchbox Theater with your students.

http://www.paulfleischman.net/

Lenore Look andMeilo So

http://lenorelook.wordpress.com/books-3/

Hear the author discuss the book: http://annickpress.com/Man-with-the-Violin-The

Fiction

http://www.josannelavalley.com/about_mywork.html

http://hmhyoungreadersblog.com/teens/middle-grade/how-a-trip-to-china-inspired-the-vine-basket-by-josanne-la-valley/

http://weblog.uhrp.org/book-review-the-vine-basket-by-josanne-la-valley/

Tuscarora NativeReservation,New York State1975

Lewis Blake and George Haddonfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDUksKaJXwI

http://www.kathrynlasky.com/KK/Extra.html

http://www.fatimasharafeddine.com/index.html

http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/fatima-sharafeddine-in-conversation/

A conversationWithFatimaSharrafeddine

http://www.hatbooks.com/

NovelInVerse

http://www.hatbooks.com/files/Language_Inside_Guide_FINAL.pdf

Teacher’s Guide: A Discussion, Writing, Activity & Service Guide

http://www.sylviawhitmanbooks.com/

Sylvia Whitman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_21eW9wrYe8

http://www.sylviawhitmanbooks.com/#!the-milk-of-birds

http://billkonigsberg.com/books/

http://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/teen-book-fest/ask-author-almost-anything-bill-konigsberg-author-openly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFRlXhcMlg

Biography

Laban Carrick Hill

Clive Campbell, 1970’s – Hip Hop

http://robbie-robertson.com/news/

http://tundrabooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/legendsiconsrebels_teacherguide.pdf

Robbie Robertson

Poetry

http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/informationalpoems/

http://myaamiahistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/faqssalt/

http://www.helenfrost.net/

http://myaamiahistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/faqssalt/

Tula: Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, mid 1800’s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqPD0c_uN8

Non-Fiction

http://www.owlkidsbooks.com/Portals/0/docs/teachersGuides/WDWF-Q&A.pdf

http://globalnews.ca/video/914402/author-niki-walker-on-why-do-we-fight

http://nancyboflood.com/wp-content/uploads/cowboy-up-activity-guide.pdf

http://deborahellis.com/

http://deborahellis.com/looks-like-daylight/

http://bookdragon.si.edu/2013/11/28/looks-like-daylight-voices-of-indigenous-kids-by-deborah-ellis-foreword-by-loriene-roy/

http://www.triplenickle.com/

http://shelleypearsall.com/JumpInToTheSky_EG_WEB.pdf

(from the 2013 list; great companion novel with Courage Has No Color )

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