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Finding ways to organize your classroom instruction for knowledge building and literacy learning can be challenging. How can you incorporate more nonfiction and informational text in your content area curriculum while expanding and deepening representation with diverse texts? What can motivate student learning while providing equity and access for different learning styles and needs? Text sets are the answer!In Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy, authors Erika Thulin Dawes and Mary Ann Cappiello demonstrate how text sets offer students the opportunity to build critical thinking skills and informational literacy while generating interest and engagement across the content areas. Put your students in the center of the meaning-making in your classroom with multimodal multi-genre text sets in action. In Text Sets in Action, the authors:

Model how text sets build foundational skills and metacognitive strategies as students experience a carefully scaffolded and sequenced exploration of ideas, academic, and content vocabulary

Explain how text sets encourage classroom discussion by having students ask questions about what they read, debate different perspectives, and relate the texts to their own personal experiences and the changes they would like to see in the world

Show how children's literature and multimodal, multi-genre texts can serve as mentor texts for student writing and inspire creativity and advocacy

Demonstrate how to curate text sets that can introduce diverse and underrepresented voices into the classroom, fostering appreciation for different points of view and generate deeper critical thinking

Provide resources and suggestions for designing text sets a multimodal, multi-genre text set can include children's literature of all genres, as well as digital texts, YouTube videos, news articles, podcasts, and more

Text Sets in Action will help you create a collection of text sets that can be added to or edited over the years to align with your lesson plan goals. Teachers who have adopted this approach saw greater student reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. By introducing a multitude of text, teachers will ignite a spirit of inquiry and engagement for lifelong learning.

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Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy

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Finding ways to organize your classroom instruction for knowledge building and literacy learning can be challenging. How can you incorporate more nonfiction and informational text in your content area curriculum while expanding and deepening representation with diverse texts? What can motivate student learning while providing equity and access for different learning styles and needs?

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Building Background Knowledge Through Reading: Rethinking Text Sets

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Building Background Knowledge Through Reading: Rethinking Text Sets

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Editor's note: This article is part of the series The Right Tool for the Job: Improving Reading and Writing in the Classroom that provides in-depth reviews of several promising digital tools for English language arts classrooms.

The shift to the Common Core State Standards has ushered in a renewed focus on effective instructional techniques for reading instruction. As Common Core's reading standards state, "To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts." In this vein, teachers are seeking how best to engage their students in text analysis, ways to develop and utilize text-dependent questions and methods for integrating more complex texts, and for other effective strategies to strengthen students' reading comprehension.

One promising instructional strategy, developed based on reading-comprehension research showing the importance of background knowledge and vocabulary, is text sets. Text sets are collections of texts tightly focused on a specific topic. They may include varied genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and so forth) and media (such as blogs, maps, photographs, art, primary-source documents, and audio recordings).

Text sets can be organized in many different ways. Although all high-quality text sets are designed to build knowledge of an academic topic, some are arranged as series of texts (and other media) that become progressively more advanced, while others have a central or "anchor" text with supplementary texts that support the themes and content of the central text. No matter the organization, effective text sets are usually presented in a specific order with attention to text complexity, vocabulary development, content knowledge, and conceptual understanding. In other words, "the focus of study becomes concepts rather than the content of one particular book. Students gain both a broad perspective and an in-depth sense of the subject matter from reading many texts on the same topic."

Research has shown the use of conceptually coherent text sets to be effective in building knowledge and vocabulary, as well as preparing students for new texts on the same topic. Both broad knowledge and topic-specific knowledge are essential for reading comprehension. In turn, background knowledge allows readers to make inferences, which aids in comprehension, thinking, and memory. Studies have also shown that prior knowledge of a topic has a greater impact on reading comprehension than generalized reading ability. As educators, we must recognize the power of prior knowledge!

One drawback is that it takes considerable time and effort to plan an effective text set. Teachers must consider text complexity, vocabulary, and content knowledge in the context of a specific set of students. Though there are many books and articles available that walk through the process of planning text sets, it is often difficult for teachers to find the time to engage in this process. Luckily, there are websites out there that can help.

Newsela, Readworks, and Achieve the Core all have online text-set resources for educators. Over the next few weeks, I will review each of these text-set tools, their usability and organization, and overall strengths and weaknesses.

Stay tuned!
Shannon Garrison is a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher in California with two decades of teaching experience. She holds a National Board Certification, serves on the National Assessment Governing Board, and was also recently selected as a Los Angeles County Teacher of the Year.

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When my daughter was in pre-K in New York City, she would come home each day fueled by the new and exciting things she was learning. She'd build a rocket ship out of a cereal box as she had been shown by her teacher, talking to me about how rockets work, and sing the planets song as she plotted her imaginary path through space. As the subject matter changed throughout the year, it was evident to me that her teacher was filling her mind and satisfying her innate curiosity with interesting and engaging content through the lessons she taught each day.

We moved that year, and she made the adjustment to a new school and classroom with a kind and organized new teacher. At home, she showed me daily worksheets and talked about her classmates, but something was missing. At one point, I asked her, "But what are you learning about now?" She paused, thought a moment, and said, "We don't really do that in this class."

Teachers of reading are asked to juggle an extraordinary number of linked, but often competing, priorities: determining grade-level proficiency, ensuring a volume of reading is maintained through on-task and productive independent reading, assessing mastery of standards that are established by grade level but vary in complexity based on the text in hand, not to mention the critical importance of explicitly teaching foundational skills. Add to this list the other responsibilities of teaching, plus the other subjects that are on the plates of elementary teachers in particular, and you have the consummate juggling act. And while all of these tasks are critical, not all are equally engaging for a child. It is hard to picture a second grader running home to talk to his family at the dinner table about how he identified the main topic of a multi-paragraph text that day. But boy-oh-boy, he might want to talk your ear off about the moon.

Enter text sets. Grounded in the research behind Shift 3 for college- and career-ready standards - building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction - text sets create a meaningful way for students to interact with content, grow their vocabulary, increase their knowledge, and read! And they do this in a way that can fit neatly into a variety of the many balls teachers already have in the air.
What Are Text Sets?
In a nutshell, text sets are intentionally grouped sets of topically connected texts and resources designed to help all learners build background knowledge and vocabulary through a volume of reading on science, social studies, and other high-interest topics. Achieve the Core features complete text set lessons, as well as resources that explain how to build text sets and incorporate reading on a variety of topics. While text sets are not (yet) a component found across all literacy programs, they are becoming more and more common (see a recent review of text set resources by the Fordham Institute for more information).

Text sets can be used for teacher-directed instruction, but they don't have to be! Research has shown again and again the benefits of a volume of independent reading; using a text set can simply hook a reader into exploring content on his or her own. The ideas behind text sets are not new; they scream " disciplinary literacy!" Using text sets places a value on content knowledge, however, that is simply not common across all literacy classrooms.
How Can You Use Text Sets in the Classroom?
There are endless ways to use text sets for instruction. Here are few examples:

While text sets can vary, a higher degree of impact is going to come from strategic use. For example, if the purpose of a text set is to support students so that they can independently gain access to complex texts, it is important that the texts are sequenced so that the complexity increases over time. If the purpose is to build background knowledge, the text complexity should not compete with that priority - students should be able to read and comprehend the texts without difficulty. Strategically created text sets are the best kind of scaffold: they level the playing fields of knowledge demands and academic vocabulary to gradually allow for access into more complex texts.

Once you begin using text sets in your classroom, you'll undoubtedly find a myriad of uses that range from a light teacher lift to one that requires in-depth planning. Note that in using even the lightest approach, you'll be supporting your students as they build the background knowledge and academic vocabulary necessary for them to engage meaningfully with texts in the future. And, more immediate evidence of their success might just be in their dinner conversation, answering the question "So, what did you learn about today?"

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Text sets are intentionally grouped collections of texts and media resources focused on a specific topic, and are a research-based way to grow vocabulary and knowledge for all students. This collection of text sets intentionally elevates culturally relevant content and pedagogy. You might use a culturally relevant text set to fill a gap in relevance, perspectives or representation in your instructional materials, center student interests, or enhance an existing unit.

Each culturally relevant text set:

Centers on a single topic (e.g., women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the sun, moon, and stars)

Is designed to elevate connections to counternarratives, current events, student identities/languages, multiple perspectives and/or social justice

Contain a variety of open source resources (i.e., articles, videos, websites, art, music) at a variety of complexity levels

Purposely orders resources to support students in building vocabulary and knowledge through a volume of reading

In this resource, we wanted to amplify ways to focus on building knowledge and vocabulary through text sets that center culturally relevant pedagogy and students, particularly students who are often marginalized by schools. We focused on the question: How might we design text sets that elevate connections to counternarratives, current events, student identities/languages, multiple perspectives and/or social justice?

Our deepest appreciation to our educator co-designers for their collaboration, guidance, and brilliance: Ifetayo Abdus-Salam, Crystal Graham, Tanya Hill, Tawana Jordan, Tempest NeuCollins and Islah Tauheed.

We hope to expand on this set of prototypes and welcome your feedback on any of these resources by using the "Send Feedback" button at the bottom left hand side of the page.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Simon & Schuster
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Scholastic Press
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Harry N. Abrams
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Carolrhoda Books
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Lee & Low
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Simon & Schuster
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Abrams
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Simon & Schuster
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Simon & Schuster
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Candlewick

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by Cece Bell
Harry N. Abrams
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Candlewick
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Illus. by Evan Turk
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
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by Susan Kuklin
Candlewick
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Illus. by Gary Kelley
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Illus. by Shane W. Evans
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by Thompson Holly
Random House/Delacorte

The Servant
by Sharafeddine Fatima
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books

The Milk of Birds
by Whitman Sylvia
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum

Historical Fiction
The Lightning Dreamer
by Engle Margarita
Houghton Mif[lin Harcourt/Harcourt

Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
by Frost Helen
Farrar Straus Giroux/Frances Foster Books

Nonfiction
Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids
by Ellis Deborah
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood

Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music that Changed the World
by Robertson Robbie, Guerinot Jim, Robertson Sebastian, and Levine Jared
Tundra Books

Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People
by Rubin Susan Goldman
Abrams

Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
by Stone Tanya Lee
Candlewick Press

Why Do We Fight? ConWlict, War, and Peace
by Walker Niki
Owlkids

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
by Hill Laban Carrick
Illus. Theodore Taylor III.
Roaring Brook

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale
by Tonatiuh Duncan
Abrams

When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
by Lewis J. Patrick
Illus. Jim Burke, R. Gregory Christie, Tonya Engel, John Parra, and Meilo So.
Chronicle Books

Graphic Novels
A game for swallows: To die, to leave, to return
by Zeina Abirached
Trans. Edward Gauvin
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group

Darkroom: A memoir in black and white
by Lila Quintero Weaver
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press

Fiction: Realistic & Fantasy
My book of life by Angel
by Martine Leavitt
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/MacMillan

Starry river of the sky
by Grace Lin
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company

Red thread sisters
by Carol Antoinette Peacock
New York, NY: Viking/Penguin Young Readers

Historical Fiction
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
by Sonia Manzano
New York, NY: Scholastic

No crystal stair: A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller
by Vaunda Michaux Nelson
Illus. by Christie R. Gregory
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner

Shadow on the mountain: A novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy
by Margi Preus
New York, NY: Amulet

The lynching of Louie Sam
by Elizabeth Stewart
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Annick Press

Hope and tears: Ellis Island voices
by Gwenyth Swain
Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press

Nonfiction
Kids of Kabul: Living bravely through a never-ending war
by Deborah Ellis
Toronto: Groundwood

We've got a job: The 1963 Birmingham children's march
by Cynthia Levinson
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers

Hand in hand: Ten black men who changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
New York, NY: Jump at the Sun Books/Disney

That mad game. Growing up in a war zone: An anthology of essays from around the globe
by J.L.Powers (Ed.)
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press

Picturebooks
Ganesha's sweet tooth
by Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes
Illus. by Sanjay Patel
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle

The stamp collector
by Jennifer Lanthier
Illus. by François Thisdale
Toronto, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Hands around the library: Protecting Egypt's treasured books
by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya
Illus. by Susan L. Roth
New York, NY: Dial/The Penguin Group

Monsieur Marceau
by Linda Schubert
Illus. by Gerard Dubois
New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press/MacMillan

I lay my stitches down: Poems of American slavery
by Cynthia Grady
Illus. by Michele Wood
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
​

While You Are Sleeping
Author & Illustrator: Durga Burnhard
Charlesbridge

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Author: Carmine T. Bernier-Grand
Illustrator: Raul Colon
Marshall Cavendish

Five Thousand Years of Slavery
Author: Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen
Tundra

Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan
Author: Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter
Annick Press

Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace
Author: Anna Grossnickle Hines
Henry Holt

Which Side Are You On?
Author: George Ella Lyon
Illustrator: Christopher Cardinale
Cinco Puntos Press

The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
Author: Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore
Illustrator: Susan L. Roth
Lee and Low

PICTURE BOOKS
Saltypie; A Choctaw journey from darkness into light
by Tim Tingle.
Illus. by Karen Clarkson.
Cinco Puntos Press

Seeds of Change: planting a path to peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
Lee and Low Books

Black Jack; the ballad of Jack Johnson
by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Illus. by Shane W. Evans,
Roaring Brook Press

Fiction
8th Grade Super Zero
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.
Arthur A. Levine Books

Heart of a Samurai; based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro.
by Margi Preus.
Amulet Books

Lost Boy, Lost Girl; escaping civil war in Sudan
by John Bul Dau.
National Geographic

They Called Themselves the KKK
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Houghton Mifflin

Sugar Changed the World
by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos.
Clarion Books

PICTURE BOOKS
14 Cows for America.
Carmen Agra Deedy in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah.
Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez.
Atlanta: Peachtree

NON-FICTION
After Gandhi; one hundred years of nonviolent resistance.
Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmond O'Brien
Charlesbridge

Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life; a story of sustainable farming.
Jan Reynolds
NY: Lee & Low

Denied, Detained Deported; the dark side of American immigration.
Ann Bausum.
National Geographic

Every Human Has Rights. A Photographic Declaration for Kids.
National Geographic

Truce; the day the soldiers stopped fighting.
Jim Murphy
NY: Scholastic

Bad News for Outlaws; the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.
Illus. by R. Gregory Christie
Minneapolis: Carolghoda

Claudette Colvin; twice toward justice.
Phillip Hoose
NY: Melanie Kroupa ​

Poetry
Alarcon, Francisco X. (2008).
Animal poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu.
Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Greenberg, Jan. (2008).
Side by side: New poems inspired by art from around the world.
New York: Abrams.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (2008).
The boy who dared.
New York: Scholastic.

Realistic Fiction
Carter, Anne Laurel. (2008).
The shepherd's granddaughter.
Toronto: Groundwood Books.

Zenatti, Valerie. (2008).
A bottle in the Gaza Sea.
New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books.

Picturebooks

Fox, Mem. (2008).
Ten little fingers and ten little toes.
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.
New York: Harcourt.

Nonfiction (Includes Biography)
Bellward, Stacy. (2008).
Ethiopian voices: Tsion's life.
Photographs by Erlend Berge.
Brooklyn Park, MN: Amharic Kids.

Bolden, Tonya. (2008).
George Washington Carver.
Published in association with the Field Museum, Chicago. New York: Abrams.

D'Aluisio, Faith. (2008).
What the World Eats.
Photographs by Peter Menzel.
Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press.

Kuklin, Susan. (2008).
No choirboy: Murder, violence, and teenagers on death row.
New York: Henry Holt.
Milway, Katie Smith (2008).

One hen: How one small loan made a big difference.
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes.
Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press.

Nelson, Kadir. (2008).
We are the ship: The story of Negro League baseball.
New York: Jump- at-the-Sun/Hyperion Books for Children.

Nivola, Claire A. (2008).
Planting the trees of Kenya: The story of Wangari Maathai.
New York: Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ​

​Alexie, Sherman.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Art by Ellen Forney.
Boston: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007.

Beah, Ishmael.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Compestine, Ying Chang.
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Fleischman, Paul.
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella.
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Sis, Peter.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Stanton, Karen.
Papi's Gift.
Illustrated by Rene King Moreno.
Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2007.

Strauss, Rochelle.
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth.
Illustrated by Rosemary Woods.
Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press, 2007.

Thompson, Lauren.
Ballerina Dreams: A True Story.
Photographs by James Estrin.
New York: Holtzbrink, 2007.

Williams, Karen Lynn & Mohammed, Khadra.
Four Feet, Two Sandals.
Illustrated by Doug Chayka.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007.

Wise, Bill.
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer.
Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.
New York: Lee & Low, 2007.

Boyne, John.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
New York: David Fickling, 2006.

Campoy, F. Isabel. & Ada, Alma F.
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection.
Illustrated by Felipe Davalos, Viva Escriva, Susan Guevara, Leyla Torres.
New York: Atheneum, 2006.

Diakite, Penda.
I Lost My Tooth in Africa.
Illustrated by Bab Wague Diakite.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Draper, Sharon. Copper Sun. New York: Atheneum, 2006.

Freedman, Russell.
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Greenfield, Eloise.
When the Horses Ride By.
Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
New York: Lee & Low, 2006.

Hopkinson, Deborah.
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Kessler, Cristina.
Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa.
Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Lee-Tai, Amy.
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow.
Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino.
San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press, 2006.

McCutcheon, John.
Christmas in the Trenches.
Illustrated by Henri Sorensen.
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 2006.

McKissack, Patricia.
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters.
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho.
New York: Schwartz & Wade, 2006.

Rubin, Susan Goldman. with Ela Weissberger.
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Shoveller, Herb.
Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together.
Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2006.

Tingle, Tom.
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom.
Illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2006.

Weatherford, Carol Boston.
Dear Mr. Rosenwald.
Illustrated by Gregory R. Christie.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Weatherford, Carol Boston.
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
New York: Jump at the Sun, 2006.

Ahmadi, Farah.
The story of my life: An Afghan girl on the other side of the sky.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Hitler youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow.
New York: Scholastic, 2005.

Carling, Amelia Lau.
Sawdust carpets.
Toronto: Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.

Chamberlin, Mary and Chamberlin, Rich.
Mama Panya's pancakes: A village tale from Kenya.
Illustrated by Julia Cairns.
Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2005.

Hillman, Laura.
I will plant you a lilac tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's list survivor.
New York: Atheneum, 2005.

Johnson-Davis, Denys.
Goha the wise fool.
Illustrated by Hag Handy and Hany.
New York: Philomel, 2005.

Jurmain, Suzanne.
The forbidden schoolhouse: The true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal and Steinhardt, Bernice.
Memories of survival.
New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Nelson, Marilyn.
A wreath for Emmett Till.
Illustrated by Philippe Lardy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Rappaport, Doreen.
The school is not white! A true story of the Civil Rights Movement.
Illustrated by Curtis James.
New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Reich, Susanna.
José!: Born to dance: The story of José Limon.
Illustrated by Raul Colón.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Ruurs, Martriet.
My librarian is a camel: How books are brought to children around the world.
Honsdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher.
Under the persimmon tree.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005.

Weatherford, Carole Boston.
A Negro league scrapbook.
Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.

Williams, Mary.
Brothers in hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan.
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005.

Yoo, Paula.
Sixteen years in sixteen seconds.
Illustrated by Don Lee.
New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005. ​

MacDonald, Margaret Read.
Three minute tales: Stories from around the world to tell or read when time is short.
August House, 2004.

Myers, Walter Dean.
Here in Harlem: Poems in many voices.
Holiday House, 2004.

Picture Books (Realistic Fiction)
Kyuchukov, Hristo.
My name was Hussein.
Illustrated by Allan Eitzen.
Boyds Mills, 2004.

Raven, Margot Theis.
Circle unbroken.
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Melanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004.

Picture Books (Historical Fiction)
Hall, Bruce Edward.
Henry and the kite dragon.
Illustrated by William Low.
Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Woodson, Jacqueline.
Coming on home soon.
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Putnam/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Realistic Fiction

Kessler, Cristina.
Our secret, Siri Aang.
Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Singer, Marilyn (Ed.).
Face relations: 11 stories about seeing beyond color.
Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Historical Fiction
Chotjewitz, David.
Daniel half human and the good Nazi.
Trans. by Doris Orgel.
Richard Jackson/Atheneum/ Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Nonfiction: Informational Books & Biographies
Freedman, Russell.
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights.
Clarion, 2004.

Hill, Laban Carrick.
Harlem stomp!: A cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance.
Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, 2004.

Turner, Pamela S.
Hachiko: The true story of a loyal dog.
Illus. by Yan Nascimbene.
Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Warren, Andrea.
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy.
Melanie Koupa/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004.

Weber, Ednah New Rider.
Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American childhood.
Photos. by Richela Renkun.
Lee & Low Books, 2004

Cave, K. (2003).
One child, one seed: A South African counting book.
Illustrated by Gisèle Wulfsohn.
New York: Henry Holt.

Dennis, Y. W., & Hirschfelder, A. (2003).
Children of Native America today.
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishers.

Edwardson, D. D. (2003).
Whale snow.
Illustrated by Annie Patterson.
Watertown, MA: Talewinds/Charlesbridge.

Fleming, C. (2003).
Boxes for Katje.
Illustrated by Stacey Dressen-McQueen.
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Krull, K. (2003).
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
Illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
New York: Harcourt.

Jung, R, (1996 published in German /2003 published in English).
Dreaming in black & white.
Translated by Anthea Bell.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books.

Mankell, H. (2003).
Secrets in the fire.
Translated by Anne Connie Struksrud.
Buffalo, NY: Annick Press.

Morales, Y. (2003).
Just a minute: A trickster tale and counting book.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Morpurgo, M. (1999 published in Great Britain; 2003 published in U.S.)
Kensuke's kingdom.
New York: Scholastic Press.

Naidoo, B.
Out of bounds: Seven stories of conflict and hope.
New York: HarperCollins.

Philip, N. (2003).
Horses hooves and chicken feet: Mexican folktales.
Illustrated by Jacqueline Mair.
New York: Clarion Books.

Sacre, A. (2003).
The barking mouse.
Illustrated by Alfredo Aguirre. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Co.

Shea, P. D., & Weill, C. (2003).
Ten mice for Tet.
Illustrated by To Ngox Trang.
Embroidery by Pham Viet Dinh.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Smothers, E. F. (2003).
The hard-times jar.
Illustrated by John Holyfield.
New York: Frances Foster Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Tingle, T. (2003).
Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Tryszynska, L. as told to Michelle R. McCann. (2003).
Luba: Angel of Bergen-Belsen.
Illustrated by Ann Marshall.
Berkeley CA: Tricycle Press.
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Bial, R. (2002).
Tenement: Immigrant life on the lower east side.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Crowe, C. (2002).
Mississippi trial, 1955.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman/Penguin Putnam.

Freedman, R. (2002).
Confucius: The golden rule.
Illustrated by Frederic Clement.
New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.

Hoffman, M. (2002).
The color of home.
Illustrated by Karin Littlewood.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman Putnam.

Nye, N. S. (2002).
19 varieties of gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.
New York: Greenwillow.

Orozco, J. L. (2002).
Fiestas: A year of Latin American songs and celebration.
Illustrated by Elisa Kleven.
New York: Dutton.

Park, F., & Park, G. (2002).
Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong.
Illustrated by Yangsook Choi.
Washington, DC: National Geographic.

UNICEF. (2002).
A life like mine: How children live around the world.
New York: DK Publishing.

Wong, J. S. (2002).
Apple pie 4th of July.
Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine.
San Diego, CA: Harcourt.

Chen, D. (2001).
China's son: Growing up in the Cultural Revolution.
New York: Delacorte Press.

Cooper, M. L. (2001).
Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers.
New York: Clarion Books.

Garland, S. (2001).
Children of the dragon: Selected tales from Vietnam.
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
San Diego, CA: Harcourt.

Hoyt-Goldsmith, D. (2001).
Celebrating Ramadan.
Photographs by Lawrence Migdale.
New York: Holiday House.

Johnston, T. (2001).
Any small goodness: A novel of the barrio.
Illustrated by Raúl Colón.
New York: Blue Sky/Scholastic.

Johnston, T. (2001).
Uncle rain cloud.
Illustrated by.Fabricio VandenBroeck.
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.

Lipp, F. (2001).
The caged birds of Phnom Penh.
Illustrated by Ronald Himler.
New York: Holiday House.

Mckissack, P. C. (2001).
Goin' someplace special.
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
New York City: Atheneum.

Tunnell, M. O. (2001).
Brothers in valor: A story of resistance.
New York: Holiday House.

Deedy, C. A. (2000).
The yellow star: The legend of King Christian X of Denmark.
Illustrated by Henri Sørensen.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publications.

Gold, A. L. (2000).
A special fate : Chiume Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust.
New York: Scholastic Books.

Govenar, A, (Ed.). (2000).
Osceola: Memories of a sharecropper's daughter.
Illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
New York: Hyperion.

Herrera, J. F. (2000).
The upside down boy, El niño de cabeza.
llustrated by Elizabeth Gomez.
San Francisco: Children's Book Press.

Herschler, M. B. (2000).
The darkest corner.
Asheville, North Carolina: Front Street.

Rubin, S. G. (2000).
Fireflies in the dark: The story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin.
New York: Holiday House.

Hamanaka, S., & Ayano O. (1999).
In search of the spirit: The living national treasures of Japan.
Illustrated by Sheila Hamanaka.
Calligraphy by Ayano Ohmi.
New York: Morrow Junior Books.

Harrell, B. O. (1999).
Longwalker's journey: A novel of the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
New York: Dial.

Hopkinson, D. (1999).
A band of angels: A story inspired by the Jubilee Singers.
Illustrated by Raúl Colón.
New York: Atheneum.

Left Hand Bull, J., & Haldane, S. (1999).
Lakota hoop dancer.
Photographs by Suzanne Haldane.
New York: Dutton.

Myers, W. D. (1999).
At her majesty's request: An African princess in Victorian England.
New York: Scholastic.

Silverman, E. (1999).
Raisel's riddle.
Illustrated by Susan Gaber.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Wells, R. (1999).
Streets of gold.
Illustrated by Dan Andreasen.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.

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