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Genre: Fiction
Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
Yoon wants a jump rope for her birthday so she can play with the other girls in the school yard. Instead, Yoon’s mother gives her a Korean storybook about a silly girl who is tricked by a tiger. Yoon also receives a jade bracelet that once belonged to her grandmother. The next day at school, [...]
Other Descriptors: Korea, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Birthday, Gift, life lessons, trickery Leave a comment
Dragonwings
Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met, but Moon Shadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with [...]
Other Descriptors: Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), United States of America, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Chinese Americans, Dream, Fathers, Poverty, San Francisco, sons Leave a comment
Chu Ju’s House
When a girl is born to Chu Ju’s family, it is quickly determined that the baby must be sent away. After all, the law states that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that every family should have a boy. To make room for one, this girl will have to go. Fourteen-year-old [...]
Becoming Naomi León
Naomi Soledad León Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as “nobody special.” But according to Gram’s self-prophecies, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Luckily, [...]
Other Descriptors: Intermediate (Gr. 4-8), United States of America Themes: Identity, Mexican Americans Leave a comment
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
“Our lives will always be in the hands of our mothers, whether we like it or not.” Nazia doesn’t mind when her friends tease and call her a good beti, a dutiful daughter. Growing up in a working-class family in Karachi, Pakistan, Nazia knows that obedience is the least she can give to her mother, [...]
Other Descriptors: Database, Pakistan, Young Adult (Gr. 9-12) Themes: Coming of age, daughter, Hardship, Money, Mother, obedience, work Leave a comment
Nina Bonita
This story deals with a sensitive subject in a sensitive way. “Black is beautiful” to a little white rabbit and while trying to discover the secret that will make him black, readers get a funny, yet educational introduction to genetics.
Other Descriptors: Brazil, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: beauty, dark skin, Difference, Rabbit, Secret Leave a comment
Market Day: A Story Told With Folk Art
It’s market day, and everyone’s going to the town square. But this is no ordinary market–it’s a veritable feast of folk art from around the world, assembled by Lois Ehlert with a focus on color and design. Provides a simple introduction to folk art from around the world. Includes a key detailing sources of the [...]
Other Descriptors: International, Latin America, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Design, Folk art, Market, World Leave a comment
Ten Old Men and a Mouse
The synagogue was once a busy, bustling place, but now only ten old men come to tend it and pray each day. Then one day, a little scritch-scratch betrays the first new member in years: a tiny mouse who has taken up residence among the holy books. Of course, a trap must be set, but [...]
Other Descriptors: Canada, Picture Book, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Human-animal relationship, Jewish, mouse, solution, synagogue Leave a comment
My New Shirt
Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David’s living nightmare. The “surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts — “perfect gentlemen” shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his eyes and imagines a [...]
Other Descriptors: Canada, Primary (Gr. K-3) Themes: Birthday, Family, Gift, Grandmother, Humor Leave a comment
Cooper’s Lesson