Highly Recomended Books
Coming of Age in America:  A Multicultural Anthology edited by Mary Frosch

Welcome to Your Life:  Writings from the Heart of Young America edited by David Haynes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Farwell to Manzanar:  A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After World War II Internment by Jeanne and James Huston

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and others

Warriors Don't Cry:  A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Patillo Beals

Makes Me Wana Holler:  A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall

The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (the series) by Douglas Adams

I Never Saw Another Butterfly:  Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944 edited by Hana Volavkova





Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave:  Written By Himself by Fredric Douglass

The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings (the series) by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Harry Potter (the series) by J. K. Rowling

Kaffir Boy:  The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

Anne Frank:  The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and others

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Autobiography Malcom X by Malcom X

Black Boy:  American Hunger by Richard Wright

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

Sounder by William Howard Armstrong

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Native Sun by Richard Wright


A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellson

The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Black Ice by Lorene Cary

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cismneros

Gifted Hands by Ben Carson, and others

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa

Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao

*The Circuit: Stories from The Life of A migrant Child by Fransisco Jimenez

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman

My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk About Slavery by Belinda Hurmence

Bone by Fee Myenne Ng

In A Circle Long Ago:  A Treasury of Native Lore from North America by Nancy Van Laan




Crews:  Gang Members Talk by Maria Hinojosa

Fences by August Wilson

American Dragons:  Twenty Five Asian American Voices by Laurence Yep
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