Includes suggestions by the SHS Diversity Committee
KINDERGARTEN
Bryan, Ashley What a Wonderful World. Atheneum, 1995. (Multi-ethnic)
Heo, Yumi. One Afternoon. Orchard, 1994. (Asian Pacific American)
1-2nd grade
Waboose, Jean Bourdeau. Morning on the Lake. Kids Can Press, 1998. (American Indian)
Choi, Sook Nyul Halmoni and the Picnic. Houghton Mifflin, 1993. (Asian Pacific American)
3-4th GRADE
Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. Knopf, 1985. (African American)
Van Camp, Richard. What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know about Horses? Children’s Book Press, 1998. (American Indian)
5-6th GRADE
Bragg, Lynn (Métis), A River Lost. 1995 (Arrow Lakes Band, Colville Confederated Tribes).
Big Crow, Moses Nelson/Eyo Hiktepi (Lakota), A Legend from Crazy Horse Clan. 1987,
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes. Scholastic, 1999. (African American)
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. Delacorte, 1999. (African American)
King, Casey and Linda Barrett Osborne. Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen. Knopf, 1997 (Multi-ethnic)
Strom. Yale. Quilted Landscape: Conversations with Young Immigrants. Simon & Schuster, 1996. (Multi-ethnic)
Veciana-Suarez, A. Flight to Freedom, Scholastic Paperbacks, 2004, (Latino)
7-8th GRADE
Elizabeth Laird Kiss the Dust, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1991, Middle Eastern (Iraqi)
Carvell, Marlene, Who will tell my brother?, 2002 (Mohawk)
Angela Johnson, Heaven, Thorndike Press, 2000, (African American)
Mawi Asgedom, Of Beetles and Angels, Little Brown & Company, 2002 (Ethiopian American)
ADULTS
Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent, W.W. Norton and Company, 2003 (Iraqi-American)
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools, Harper Perennial, 1992
Gregory Howard Williams Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black, Dutton, 1995,
Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here, Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1992
