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Great Books for Young Readers

Here's a list of the multi-cultural children's books that Violet J. Harris, professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois, recommended during the Great Books for Young Readers segment on Monday, July 2, on The Afternoon Magazine.

 

Street Love, Walter Dean Myers (Amistad)

Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time, Lisa Yee (Scholastic)

Good Luck Gold and Other Poems, Janet S. Wong (Martha K. McElderry)

So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl, Lowell Massachusetts 1847, Barry Denenberg (Scholastic)

Joey Pigza Loses Control, Jack Gantos (Harper Trophy)

Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan (Harper Coll Children)

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille, Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)

I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion, Marilyn Singer (HarperCollins)

Antonio’s Card, Rigoberto Gonzalez (Children’s Book Press)

The Hidden Children, Howard Greenfeld and Terry Seng (Houghton Mifflin)

Great Books for Young Readers airs on WILL-AM at 2:45 p.m. the first Monday of every month.

June 4 suggestions.

Previous reading suggestions.

 




 

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