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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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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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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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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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

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The Color of Water, by James McBride (Story about a white Jewish Mother and her biracial children.

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

The Soloist, by Steve Lopez

Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers

Prisoners Without Trial by Roger Daniel (Janpanese Americans)

No Borders, by Jorge Ramos

The Help, by Katheryn Stockett

Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan

Autobiography on Ida Wells,

What if all kids are White, by Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey