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FICTION Young Adolescents Grades 6 - 8 A Northern Light By Jennifer Donnelly A Series of Unfortunate Events By Lemony Snicket A Single Shard By Linda Sue Park A Step From Heaven By An Na A Year Down Yonder By Richard Peck Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko Artemis Fowl By Eoin Colfer Bud, Not Buddy By Chris Paul Curtis Chasing Vermeer By Blue Balliet Crash By Jerry Spinelli Crispin By Avi Dave at Night By Gail Levin Devil’s Arithmatic By Jane Yolen Don’t You Know There’s A War On? By Avi Dragon Rider By Cornelia Funke Eva By Peter Dickinson Exiled By Kathleen Karr Freak the Mighty By Rodman Philbrick Habibi By Naomi Shihab Nye Heartbeat By Sharon Creech Homecoming By Cynthia Voight Hoot By Carl Hiaasen Locomotion By Jacqueline Woodson Lyddie By Katherine Paterson Make Lemonade By Virginia Euwer Wolff Mick Hart Was Here By Barbara Park Monster By Walter Dean Myers No More Dead Dogs By Gordon Korman Nory Ryans song By Patricia Reilly Giff Pagan’s Crusade By Catherine Jinks Parrot in the Oven By Victor Martinez Ravenmaster By Elvira Woodruff Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind By Suzanne Fisher Staples Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants By Ann Brashares Skellig By David Almond Skullduggery By Kathleen Karr Soldier’s Heart By Gary Paulsen Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson Stargirl By Jerry Spinelli Tangerine By Edward Bloor The Chronicles of Prydain By Lloyd Alexander FICTION Young Adolescents Grades 6 – 8 Page 2 The Ear, The Eye and The Arm By Nancy Farmer The Giver By Lois Lowry The Golden Compass By Philip Pullman The House of the Scorpion By Nancy Farmer The Thief Lord By Cornelia Funke The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed By Heather Vogel Frederick Walk Two Moons By Sharon Creech When Zachary Beaver Came To Town By Kimberly Willis Holt Witness By Karen Hesse Yolanda’s Genius By Carol Fenner 13 By James Howe .

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CELEBRATE DIVERSITY WITH HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS Black History Month Classroom Kit About This Guide H a rperCollins Children’s Books is pleased to offer a variety of fiction and nonfiction books that explore African American h i s t o ry and culture. The fabric of the American populat i o n is becoming more ra c i a l ly and ethnically d ive rs e, and it is c rucial that children’s books have chara c t e rs t h at represent this. The following collection of African American l i t e rature is undoubtedly important for all children, b o t h because it provides recog n i z able histories and cultures f o r children of color and because it introduces new pers p e c t ive s f o r all children. This guide is designed to provide a spectrum of c u rricular activities and connections among the selected titles. CONTENTS Historical Fight for Freedom The fi rst two sections of this guide are orga n i zed by New! God Bless the Child H i s t o r i c a l titles and African American Biograp h i e s a n d By Billie Holiday and Arthur Herz og, Jr. explore slave history and the civil rights movement. The Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney books and suggested activities probe the notion of Barefoot: Escape on the freedom, and look at how slaves and abolitionists fought for Underground Railroad the freedom of black people. By Pamela Duncan Edwards Illustrated by Henry Cole Found Identity African American Biographies The next two sections include Le g en d s and Ar t titles and present African American art, poetry, and trad i t i o n a l tales.
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