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The books listed are appropriate for younger readers.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>African Authors</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Peter Abrahams, <U>Tell Freedom</U></div> <div> Chinua Achebe: <U>Chiche and the River</U> (grades 4-6), <U>Things Fall Apart</U>*</div> <div> Ekwensi, Cyprian. <U>Burning Grass</U></div> <div> Buchi Emecheta<B>*</B></div> <div> Bessie Head, <U>When Rain Clouds Gather</U></div> <div> Camara Laye, The African Child</div> <div> Mahfuz, Naguib,<U> God’s World, </U>* <U>Fountain and Tomb</U></div> <div> Ngugi wa Thiungo. <U>The River Between</U>,* <U>Weep Not, Child*</U></div> <div> Soyinka, Wole. <U>Ake, the World of Childhood</U>*<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>African American Authors</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Maya Angelou, <U>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</U>*</div> <div> Alice Childress</div> <div> Ernest Gaines. <U>The Authobiography of Miss Jane Pittman</U>*</div> <div> Nikki Grimes</div> <div> Rosa Guy</div> <div> Virginia Hamilton</div> <div> Kristin Hunter (writes both young adult and adult novels)</div> <div> Hunter, Latoya, <U>The Diary of Tatoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High</U></div> <div> Sharon Bell Mathis</div> <div> Walter Dean Meyer</div> <div> Patricia McKissack</div> <div> Ntozake Shange, <B>Betsy Brown</B>*</div> <div> Mildred Taylor</div> <div> Walker, Margaret, <U>Jubilee*</U></div> <div> Rita Garcia Williams</div> <div> Jacqueline Woodson<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="h1_1body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Latin American </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="h1_1content"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>Isabel Allende, <U>Of Love and Shadow*</U></div> <div> Romulo Gallegos, <U>Dona Barbara</U></div> <div> Ricardo Guiraldes,<U> Don Segundo Sombra</U></div> <div> Gabriel Garcia Marquez, <U>The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor</U>*</div> <div> Jorge Isaacs, <U>Maria</U></div> <div> Jose Marmol, <U>Amalia</U></div> <div> Marquez, R. <B><U>The Oxcart</U></B></div> <div> Graciliano Ramos, <U>Barren Lives</U><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>U.S. Hispanic</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Ernesto Bethancourt</div> <div> Elizabeth Borton de Trevino</div> <div> Veronica Chambers, <U>Marisol and Magdalena</U></div> <div> Sandra Cisneros, <U>The House on Mango Street</U></div> <div> Victor Martinez, <U>Parrot in the Oven</U></div> <div> Nicholasa Mohr</div> <div> Judith Ortiz Cofer</div> <div> Esmerelda Santiago, <U>When I was Puerto Rican</U></div> <div> Gary Soto</div> <div> Graciela Limon. <U>Song of the Hummingbird</U>*<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="h1_2body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Asian Literature (including Middle Eastern) </div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="h1_2content"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><U>Atsumori </U>(Noh play—found in anthologies)</div> <div>  <A NAME="h2_1body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><U>The Bhagavad-Gita</U></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="h2_1content"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>Kobo Abe,<U> The Woman in the Dunes</U></div> <div> Gandhi, <U>The Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi</U></div> <div> Khalil Gibran</div> <div> Laotzu, <U>The Tao te Ching</U></div> <div> Kamala Markandaya, <U>Nectar in a Sieve*</U></div> <div> Yukio Mishima, <U>The Sound of Waves*</U></div> <div> Kyoko Mori</div> <div> R.K. Narayan. <U>Swami and Friends</U></div> <div> Premchand.<U> The Gift of a Cow</U></div> <div>  <A NAME="h2_2body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><U>The Ramayana</U></div> <div>  <A NAME="h2_2content"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Han Suyin</FONT> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Asian American Literature</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> Lensey Namioka</div> <div> Ching Yeung Russell</div> <div> Laurence Yep</div> <div> Amy Tan*</div> <div> Naomi Shihab Nye<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Native American Authors</B></div> <div> Sherman Alexie<B>*</B></div> <div> Michael Dorris</div> <div> Louise Erdrich*</div> <div> N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn</div> <div> Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller </div> <bR> <div> <B>European (adolescent texts not well known)</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="h1_3body"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Classical Literature</div> <div>  <A NAME="h1_3content"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >(Look for translations or adaptations selected for your age group.</FONT></div> <div> Aesop’s Fables</div> <div> Anansi Tales</div> <div> Tales of the Hodja (Nasrudin Tales)</div> <div> The Mahabharata</div> <div> The Ramayana<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>