Naperville Public Library: Children's Booklist

	Title: I love Saturdays y domingos Author: Ada, Alma Flor Summary: A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.
	Title: Black is brown is tan Author: Adoff, Arnold. Summary: Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
	Title: Ruby's wish Author: Bridges, Shirin Yim Summary: In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.
	Title: How my parents learned to eat Author: Friedman, Ina R Summary: An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.
	Title: All the colors of the earth Author: Hamanaka, Sheila Summary: Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.
	Title: The colors of us Author: Katz, Karen. Summary: Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
	Title: My house has stars Author: McDonald, Megan. Summary: Young people describe the different kinds of homes they live in around the world--all under the stars.
	Title: Mr. Lincoln's way Author: Polacco, Patricia. Summary: When Mr. Lincoln, the coolest principal in the whole world, discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
	Title: My name is Yoon Author: Recorvits, Helen Summary: Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or shining wisdom, refers to herself as cat, bird, and cupcake, as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.
	Title: Grandfather's journey Author: Say, Allen Summary: A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries.
	Title: Madlenka Author: Sis, Peter Summary: Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
	Title: Through moon and stars and night skies Author: Turner, Ann Warren Summary: A young Asian boy remembers his flight across the world to his new family in America.
	Title: Apple pie 4th of July Author: Wong, Janet S. Summary: A Chinese American child fears that the food her parents are preparing to sell on the Fourth of July will not be eaten.
	Title: The other side Author: Banyai, Istvan. Summary: A wordless picture book that shows a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
	Title: My name is Maria Isabel Author: Ada, Alma Flor Summary: Third grader Maria Isabel, born in Puerto Rico and now living in the U.S., wants badly to fit in at school; and the teacher's writing assignment My Greatest Wish gives her that opportunity.
	Title: How Tia Lola came to visit stay Author: Alvarez, Julia. Summary: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
	Title: The stories Julian tells Author: Cameron, Ann Summary: Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.
	Title: Molly's pilgrim Author: Cohen, Barbara. Summary: Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
	Title: The Watsons go to Birmingham Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
	Title: Seedfolks Author: Fleischman, Paul Summary: One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
	Title: Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure Author: Gutman, Dan. Summary: With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process.
	Title: Amazing Grace Author: Hoffman, Mary Summary: Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
	Title: Any small goodness : a novel of the barrio Author: Johnston, Tony Summary: Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even starting their own gang.
	Title: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Author: Lord, Bette. Summary: In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.
	Title: Project Mulberry Author: Park, Linda Sue. Summary: While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
	Title: Esperanza rising Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Summary: Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
	Title: The skirt Author: Soto, Gary Summary: When Miata leaves on the school bus the skirt that she is to wear in a dance performance, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents' finding out that she has lost something yet again.
	Title: Maniac Magee Author: Spinelli, Jerry. Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
	Title: The well : David's story Author: Taylor, Mildred D Summary: In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence. Narrated by Cassie's father as a boy, The Well is a brief but compelling novel about . . .the saving power of human dignity.
	Title: A jar of dreams Author: Uchida, Yoshiko. Summary: A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
	Title: Homeless bird Author: Whelan, Gloria. Summary: When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
	Title: Child of the owl Author: Yep, Laurence. Summary: A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
	Title: The traitor : Golden Mountain chronicles, 1885 Author: Yep, Laurence. Summary: In 1885, a lonely illegitimate American boy and a lonely Chinese American boy develop an unlikely friendship in the midst of prejudices and racial tension in their coal mining town of Rock Springs, Wyoming.
	Title: People Author: Spier, Peter. Summary: Emphasizes the differences among the four billion people on earth.
	Title: How my family lives in America Author: Kuklin, Susan Summary: African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American children describe their families' cultural traditions.
	Title: Who belongs here? : an American story Author: Knight, Margy Burns. Summary: Describes the new life of Nary, a Cambodian refugee, in America, as well as his encounters with prejudice. Includes some general history of U.S. immigration.