Possible Books for CD 42 – Book Reports
BOOK LIST (These are only examples of a few books you may use for your Book reports)
Rodriguez, Richard, Brown - The Last Discovery of America, Viking Penguin, 2002
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Bantam Books, N.Y., 1970
Baca, Jimmy, Working in the Dark, Red Crane, New Mexico, 1992
Bettleheim, Bruno, The Children of the Dream, The Macmillan Co., Toronto, 1969
Delpit, Lisa, Other People's Children, W.W. Nortan & Co., Inc., 1995
Edelman, Marion W., The Measure of Our Success, Beacon Press, Boston, 1992
Gould, Stephen J., The Mismeasure of Man, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., N.Y., 1996
Hale, Janice, Unbank the Fire, John Hopkins University, Md., 1994
Black Children, 1986
Smith, Lillian, Killers of the Dream, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1994
Tan, Amy, The Joy Luck Club, Ivy Books, N.Y., 1989
Valdes, Guadalupe, Con Respeto, Teachers College, N.Y., 1996
Walker-Moffat, Wendy, The Other Side of the Asian American Success Story, Jossey-Bass Inc., CA., 1995
Mooney, Paul, Black is the New White
Wilson, Willow G., The Butterfly Mosque. A young American Journey to Love and Islam.
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Living up the Street – Gary Soto
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Torn between two cultures – Maryam Qudrat Aseel
A woman called moses
My American Journey (Colin Powell)
Powerful Words – Wade Hudson – USA. Scholastic Inc. 2004
Don’t Play in the Sun – (One Woman’s Journey through the Color Complex – Marita Golden
The Fire Next Time – James Bladwin
Holler if you hear me
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Fall 2010
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ceaser Chavez – Doreen Gonzales
Veil of Roses (About a Young woman from Iran who live in Anerica)
Miles from Nowhere – Nami Yun (Korean Amrerican Teenager who is homelss)
Voices from the Trail of Tears – Vicki Rozema (American Indians)
The other Face of America – By Jorge Ramos
“Bad Boy” A Memoir – Walter Dean Myers ( about a African American young boy)
Fire from the Rock – Sharon Draper – (about African American Children)
When the Emperor was Divine – Julie Otsuka (About Japanese Americans)
Farewell to Manzanar – Jeanne Wakatsuki (About Japanese Americans)
Beside a Burning Sea – By John Shors (About Japanese Americans)
The African –
Black Elk Speaks – John G. Neihardt (American Indians)
Black Like ME – John Griffin (about African Americans)
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd (African Americans)
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Spring 2011
Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
Prisoners Without Trial: Japenese Americans in World War 11 – Roger Daniels
Desert Flower – Waris Dirie
Harriet Tubman riding the freedom train – Published by the Millbrook Press
Marcus Garvey Black Nationalist Leader – Mary Lawler
Rosa Park –
Oprah: A Biography – Kitty Kelley
Black Children Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles – Janice E. Hale-Benson
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance – Barack Obama
Across a Hundred Mountains –
Discrimination Against Women – by Eschel M. Rhoodie
Deenie – By Judy Blume
Poverty Around the World – by Philip E. DeVol
The Unsung Hero –
Racism – by Charles George
Foreigner – by Nahid Rachlin
Arnold Schwarzebegger’s Biography
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Fall 2012
No One’s Perfect – by Ototake Hirotada (Special Needs)
Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger Syndrome – by Luke Jackson (Special Needs)
Thinking in Pictures – by Temple Grandin (Special Needs)
Manzanar my Home – by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Japanese Americans)
In Our Mother’s Home – by__________________ (gay parents)
Escape – by Carolyn Jessops (Polygamists)
Jewish Marriage – by __________________
Night – by Ellie Wiesel (Holocaust)
Bread Givers – by Anzia Yezierska (Jewish)
Veil of Roses – by Laura Fitzgerald (Iranian American)
Foreigner – by Nahid Rachlin (Iranian American)
Lipstick Jihad – by Azadeh Moaveni (Irnaian American)
Mr. & Mrs. Prince – by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (African American)
The Help – by Kathryn Stockett (American American)
Rosa Park – by _____________________ (African American)
Push – by Sapphire – (African American)
The House on Mango Street – by Sandra Cisneros (Mexican American)
The Circuit – by Francisco Jimenez (Mexican American)
Voices from The Trail of Tears – by Vicki Rozema (Native American)
Ceremony – by Leslie Silko (Native Americans)
First Black Woman Pilot - by Bessie Coleman (American American)
Prayers for Bobby
Kite Runner
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Spring 2013
Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit – by Richard Griswold Del Castillo & Richard A. Garcia
Malcolm X
Sojourner Truth Ain’t I a Woman?
Slave and Citizen the Life of Frederick Douglass – by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Dwarf Tiffanie Didonato A Memoir
The Soloist – by Steve Lopez
Escape – by Carolyn Jessop
Islam and the WEST – by Chante Myers
Torn Between two cultures – by Maryan Qudrat Aseel
A tale of Two Cultures – by Mark Walia