Notable Books for a Global Society 2013

Karen Hildebrand OCTELA 2013

http://clrsig.org/nbgs.php

Meet one or more criteria from this section

• Portray cultural accuracy and authenticity of characters in terms of: (a) physical characteristics (b) intellectual abilities and problem solving capabilities (c) leadership and cooperative dimensions(d) social and economic status

• Be rich in cultural details

Criteria for selection Part I :

• Honor and celebrate diversity as well as common bonds in humanity;

• Provide in-depth treatment of cultural issues;

• Include characters within a cultural group or between two or more cultural groups who interact substantively and authentically;

• Include members of a “minority” group for a purpose other than filling a “quota.”

Part IIMeet ALL criteria from this section

• Invite reflection, critical analysis, and response

• Demonstrate unique language or style

• Meet generally-accepted criteria of quality for the genre in which they are written

• Have an appealing format and be of enduring quality

Picture Books

Alain Serres

Groundwood Books

From the United NationsConvention on theRights of the Child, 1989

http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

“I have the rightto go to schoolwithout having to pay,so that I can learnhow birdsor planesor poppy seeds fly.”

Emily Haynes

Sanjay PatelChronicle Books

Emily Haynes

Sanjay PatelChronicle Books

Enchanted Lion Books

Olivier Tallec

Susan L. RothAndKaren Leggett Abouraya

Dial Publishers

Jan. 25, 2011

Jennifer Lanthier

Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Jacqueline Woodson

Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group Publishers

Graphic Novel

Lila Quintero Weaver

University of Alabama Press

Zeina Abirached

Graphic Universe/ Lerner Imprint

Civil War in Beirut, Lebanon 1980’s

A Game of Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return

Fiction

Sonia Manzano

Scholastic Press

PuraBelpreHonorBook

Martine Leavitt

Farrar, Straus, & Giroux

Novel in verse

Grace Lin

Little Brown Publishers

Dr. Carol Peacock

Viking Press

DaughtersElizabethandKatherine

Eliot Schrefer

Scholastic Press

Gwenyth Swain

Calkins Creek/Boyds Mill Press

Elizabeth Stewart

Annick Press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2006/03/01/louie-sam-060301.html

Feb. 3, 2006: Members of the state's House of Representatives approved a Senate resolution on Wednesday that expressed "deepest sympathy" for the descendents of Louie Sam.

http://www.margipreus.com/margipreus.com/School_Visits_workshops.html

MargiPreus

Abrams Publishing

Erling Storrusten“The Potato Spy”

www.wwiinorge.com/Storrusten_eng.htm

Elizabeth E. Wein

Doubleday Canada

Biography

LedaSchubert

Flash Point Books/Macmillan Imprint

Orbis Pictus Award

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

R. Gregory Christie and VaundaLerner Publishing Co.

http://www.reading.org/general/Publications/blog/engage/engage-single-post/engage/2013/01/21/5-questions-with-vaunda-micheaux-nelson-no-crystal-stair

2013 Coretta Scott King Winner

AndreaDavis &BrianPinkney

Hyperion

Benjamin BannekerFrederick DouglassW.E.B. DuBoisBooker T. WashingtonA. Philip Randolph

Thurgood MarshallJackie RobinsonMartin Luther King, Jr.Malcolm XBarack Obama

Poetry

Jill Corcoran

Kane Miller Publisher

Poems about:

Sylvia Mendez Nicholas Cobb Father Gregory Boyle Anne Frank Jonas Salk Jean-Michael Basquiat Michelle Kwan Ashley Bryan Temple GrandinMartha Graham Georgia O’Keefe Christa McAuliffe Steven Spielberg Chad Hurley/Steve Chen/Jawed Karim (YouTube co-founders)

Dreaming + Action = Change

Info on Georgia O’Keefe

CynthiaGrady

Michele Wood Eerdmans Publishing

Cotton Boll

I need the music of my forebears fromAfrik, but take the mending to my lapAnd work beside the Missus’ chair. A spellOf quiet sewing, restful breath – it sootheMy soul, dangling by a thread that been spunLike cotton fiber grown and pinched on thisHell place. Before I know, I’m rocking withthe rhythm of the stitching, humming lowThe melody of “Gilead.” A balmFor hunger, sorrow, heartache, yes, he is.

A healing ointment found in Gilead on the eastern shore of the Jordan River was so curative that it was equal in worth to salt, a precious commodity in ancient times …

Non-Fiction

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books

http://www.womenforwomen.org/

Seventeen writers contribute essays about how they became adults in times of war.

Essays focus on modern history but take no sides. Vietnam from both sides. Bosnia. The Gulf War. Rwanda. Juárez. El Salvador. The list goes on and on. There are no winners, just the survivors left behind. Picking up the pieces. Cinco Puntos Press

J.L.Powers

Cynthia Levinson

Orbis Pictus Honor bookPeachtree Publishers

AudreyHendricks

Washington Booker

Arnetta Streeter

JamesStewart

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