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Selections
All these books were copyright in 1998:
A Gift for Abuelita: Celebrating
the Day of the Dean/Un Regalo Para Abuelita: En Celebracion del
Dia de los Muertos by
Nancy Luenn. (Rising Moon/Northland)
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers. (Dutton)
Animal Dreaming: An Aboriginal
Dreamtime Story by Paul Morin. (Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Brace)
Beyond the Mango Tree
by Amy Bronwen Zemser. (Greenwillow)
Blue Star Rapture
by James W. Bennett. (Simon & Schuster)
Cast Two Shadows
by Ann Rinaldi. (Gulliver/Harcourt Brace)
Cool Menons -- Turn to Frogs!
The Life and Poems of Issa by Matthew Gollub. (Lee
& Low)
Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman
Warrior by Robert D. San Souci. (Hyperion)
If You Come Softly
by Jacqueline Woodson. (G. P. Putnam’s)
Journey to Ellis Island:
How My Father Came to America by Carol Bierman. (Hyperion/Toronto)
Lacrosse: The National Game of
the Iroquois by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. (Holiday House)
Marianthe’s Story One: Painted
Words/Marianthe’s Story Two: Spoken Memories
by Aliki. (Greenwillow)
Masada by Neil
Waldman. (Morrow)
My Freedom Trip: A Child’s
Escape from North Korea by Frances Park & Ginger
Park. (Boyds Mills)
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of
War by Anita Lobel. (Greenwillow Books)
North by Night: The Story of
the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayers. (Delacorte)
Shadow Spinner
by Susan Fletcher. (Atheneum)
So Far from the Sea
by Eve Bunting. (Clarion)
Something Beautiful
by Sharon Dennis Wyeth. (Doubleday)
The Roses in My Carpets
by Rukhsana Khan. (Stoddart Kids)
The Skin I’m In
by Sharon G. Flake. (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)
The Space Between Our Footsteps:
Poems and Paintings from the Middle East by Naomi
Shihab Nye (Selector). (Simon & Schuster)
The Storyteller’s Beads
by Jane Kurtz, (Harcourt Brace)
The Storytellers
by Ted Lewin. (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard)
Touching the Distance: Native
American Riddle-poems by Brian Swann. (Harcourt)
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Selection Committee
Barbara Lehman,
Chair The Ohio State University at
Mansfield, OH
Joan
Glazer, Co-Chair Rhode Island College,
Providence, RI
Marcia Baghban
Queens College, Flushing, NY
Rosemary Bamford
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Diane
E. Bushner Salem State College, Salem , MA
Amy
McClure Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Patricia
Scharer The Ohio State University at Lima, OH
Michael Opitz The University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo,
CO
Terrell A. Young Washington State University, Richland, WA
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Reprints
This list (along with annotations, teaching ideas, and related
books for each title) is available in The Dragon Lode
(18/1), Fall 1999, pp. 11-25. For your convenience, a reprint
of this article is available for $2.50. This issue is also now
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