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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Join in a multicultural celebration of unity and diversity friendships all around the world as we read and sing along with joy, love, and peace!" -- dust jacket.
An illustrated text for the adapted spiritual song with pictures of children from different lands.
2) Being Binah
Author
Series
English Roses (Chapter books) volume 6
Publisher
Callaway
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Binah, tired of being "the nice one" in her group of friends, decides to get tough after being taken for granted once too often, but her new persona is not fitting in well with the English Roses, nor is it pleasing to Ben, the boy who liked her fine just as she was.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four-year-old John Butler is captured by the Delaware Indians and is adopted by one of the tribes leaders. Suddenly, after 11 years among the Delaware people, he is forced to return to his original home and parents by the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. But his deep love for and loyalty to his Indian parents and his cousin, Half Arrow, is his reason for rejecting the white man's civilization.
5) Re Jane
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jane Re--a half-Korean, half-American orphan--takes a position as an au pair for two Brooklyn academics and their daughter, but a brief sojourn in Seoul, where she reconnects with family, causes her to wonder if the man she loves is really the man for her as she tries to find balance between two cultures.
7) The emissary
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In Japan, which has cut itself off from the world after suffering a massive irreparable disaster, Yoshiro cares for his grandson, Mumei, a strangely wonderful boy and ancient soul whom he believes is a beacon of hope for the world in this time of darkness.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Jur̀ez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--
When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry...
9) The deep
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one--the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her....
10) There there
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
Description
Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Together, their stories tell of the plight of the urban Native American, grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends."--Provided...
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