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This one-of-a-kind directory includes culturally-specific award-winning books about Jewish, African-American, Latino, Carribean, and Asian-American cultures. The book includes background information on ethnic book awards as well as an alphabetical listing of award-winning books with publication information and brief summaries for each title.

Finally, there's a guide to children's books by Native American writers. * Enrich the learning process with multicultural literature* Identify and locate hard-to-find resources by Native American authors* An invaluable selection aid for public and K-12 librarians

You'll appreciate the time-saving assistance this guide gives you, including background and publication information about picture books by Latino writers, summaries of titles, and biographical information on the authors, illustrators and translators.

At last! A resource for booktalking contemporary multicultural fiction and history for young readers. . Highlights authentic, award-winning, well-written fiction. Offers a focus on contemporary multicultural fiction and history. Helps the library and school serve, reach out to, and include underserved populations. Provides Indexes for subject, title and author/illustrator/translator Reach all students, not just some, using booktalks from this well-researched, easy-to-use elementary resource. This collection of one hundred booktalks for young readers by authors of contemporary fiction and history can help schools achieve the goals of No Child Left Behind. Authors are African-, Cambodian-, Chinese-, Cuban-, East Indian-, Filipino-, Italian-, Japanese-, Jewish-, and Korean- American, Puerto Rican, American Indian, and mixed heritage. Encourage students to read often and to read well with these inclusive, ready-made booktalks.

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