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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