Selections
All these books were copyright in 1996:
Belle Praters Boy
by Ruth White. (Farrar)
Between Earth and Sky: Legends
of Native American Sacred Places by Joseph Bruchac.
(Harcourt)
Confetti: Poems for Children
by Pat Mora. (Lee & Low)
Dangerous Skies
by Suzanne Fisher Staples. (Farrar)
Free to Dream
The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes by Audrey Osofsky.
(Lothrop)
Going Back Home: An Artist
Returns to the South by Toyomi Igus. (Childrens
Book Press)
Golem by David
V. Wisniewski. (Clarion)
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons:
The Story of Phyllis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi. (Harcourt)
In My Family/En Mi Familia
by Carmen Lomas Garza. (Childrens Book Press)
In the Heart of the Village:
The World of the Indian Banyan Tree by Barbara Bash.
(Sierra Club BFC)
Irene Jennie and the Christmas
Masquerade: The Johnkankus by Irene Smalls-Hector.
(Little)
Maples in the Mist: Childrens
Poems from the Tang Dynasty by Minfong Ho (Translator/compiler).
(Lothrop)
Market by Ted
Lewin. (Lothrop)
Minty: A Story of Young
Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder. (Dial)
Mysterious Tales of Japan
by Rafe Martin (Reteller). (Putnam)
Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African
Village by Ifeoma Onyefulu. (Gulliver Books)
Peacebound Trains
by Haemi Balgassi. (Clarion)
Ribbons by Laurence
Yep. (Putnam)
Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese
Wartime Childhood by Rosemary Breckler. (Houghton)
The Children of Topaz:
The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp
by Michael O. Tunnell & George W. Chilcoat. (Holiday House)
The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South
Africa, April 1994 by Elinor Batezat Sisulu. (Little)
The Final Journey
by Gudrun Pausewang. (Viking/Penguin)
The Garden of Happiness
by Erika Tamar. (Harcourt)
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
by Russell Freedman. (Holiday House)
When I Left My Village
by Maxine Rose Schur. (Dial)
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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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