STARI Literature List Series 1 Series 2

Unit 1.1 Unit 2.1

Te Skin I’m In (Sharon Flake) Game (Walter Dean Myers) Middle School Confdential: Be Confdent in Who You Roberto Clemente (Jonah Winter) Are (Annie Fox) Real Kids, Real Stories, Real Change (Garth Sundem) Local News (Gary Soto)

Unit 1.2 Unit 2.2

Locomotion (Jacqueline Woodson) Te Big Nothing (Adrian Fogelin) How to Eat a Poem (Te American Poetry & Literacy War in Afghanistan and Iraq (Gerry Souter & Janet Project and Te Academy of American Poets, eds.) Souter) (1 book/pair) Te Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Mordicai Who Are Tese People? (Michael Fallon) Gerstein) Local News (Gary Soto) Man on Wire DVD (optional, 1 per class)

Unit 1.3 Unit 2.3

When I Was Your Age: Volumes I and II: Original Bronx Masquerade (Nikki Grimes) Stories about Growing Up (Amy Ehrlich, ed.) Harlem Stomp! (Laban Carrick Hill) (1 book/pair) What the World Eats (Faith D'Aluisio) (1 book/pair) Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes (David Te Story of Muhammad Ali (Leslie Garrett) Roessel and Arnold Rampersad, eds.) Champion: Te Story of Muhammad Ali (Jim Te Great Migration (Jacob Lawrence) Haskins) (1 book/pair) Facing Ali DVD (optional, 1 per class) Various Muhammad Ali biographies (optional, a class set = all books, 1 book per student pair): - Muhammad Ali: Te King of the Ring (Lewis Helfand) - Who Was Muhammad Ali? (James Buckley, Jr.) - Te Champ (Tanya Bolden) - Muhammad Ali: Te People's Champion (Walter Dean Myers) - Twelve Rounds to Glory: Te Story of Muhammad Ali (Charles R. Smith, Jr.) - Muhammad Ali: American Champion (Michael Burgan) - Ali: An American Champion (Barry Denenberg)

Unit 1.4 Unit 2.4

Hurricane Katrina (Peter Benoit) Hot Topics: Immigration (Nick Hunter) Ninth Ward (Jewell Parker Rhodes) Ask Me No Questions (Marina Budhos) When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories DVD (optional, 1 per class) (Anne Mazer, ed.)