CTA는 리드 어크로스 아메리카 데이를 앞두고 자녀들이 다인종 다문화 사회를 이해할 수 있는데 도움이 되는 책들을 소개했다.
이 책들은 캘리포니아 학교 도서관 협회가 선정한 것이다.
▲프리스쿨- 2학년
The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller. Simon & Schuster, 2007. (Jewish, Sidney Taylor Honor)
Hiromi’s Hands by Lynne Barasch. Lee and Low, 2007. (Asian/gender, Amelia Bloomer Award)
Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler. Harcourt, 2007. (African American, Theodor Geisel Honor)
Let it Shine by Ashley Bryan. Atheneum, 2007. (African American, Coretta Scott King Award)
My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Children’s Book Press, 2007.(Latino, Pura Belpr? Honor)
▲3-5학년
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom by Tim Tingle. Cinco Puntos Press, 2006. (Native American/African American, Native American Youth Services Literature Award)
Dad, Jackie, and Me by Myron Uhlberg. Peachtree, 2005. (Baseball, California Young Reader Medal Nominee)
Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans. Walker, 2006. (Animals, Caldecott Honor)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford. Hyperion, 2006. (African American, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award)
▲6-8학년
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief by Joseph Medicine Crow. National Geographic Children’’s Books, 2006.
(Native America, Amer. Indian Library Assn. Award)
Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim. Scholastic, 2006. (Asian, Carter G. Woodson Award)
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman. HarperCollins, 2007. (Jewish, Sydney Taylor Award)
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson. Putnam, 2007. (African American, Newbery Honor)
▲9-12학년
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Little Brown, 2006. (Native American, Amer. Indian Library Assn. Award, National Book Award)
Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin. Knopf, 2007. (Jewish, Sidney Taylor Award)
Keeping Corner by Kashmira Sheth. (Asian, Asian/Pacifi c American Librarians Assn. Honor)
Poet Slave of Cuba by Margarita Engle. Holt, 2007. (Latino/African, Pura Belpr? Award)
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Schuster, 2007. (Women/labor, Amelia Bloomer Award)
