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Name of Book:  Oggie Cooder Author: Sarah Weeks Publisher: Scholastic ISBN: 9780439927949 Audience: Ages 8 – 12 Summary: Oggie Cooder is the class weirdo. Donnica Perfecto is his chief nemesis. She wants to win a talent show audition and thinks Oggie’s carving of

Name of Book:  One Special Me: A Book Celebrating How God Makes Us Special Author:  Allia Zobel Nolan Illustrator:  Pauline Siewert Publisher:  Thomas Nelson Audience:  Ages 3 and up Summary:  This children’s book shares the story of several children from different racial

Name of Book:  Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls Editor:  Betsy Franco Photography:  Nina Nickles Publisher:  Candlewick Press ISBN: 0-978-0-7636-1035-7 Audience:  14 and up. Contains strong language and sexual imagery. Summary:  Betsy Franco was

Name of Book: Yellow and Pink Author: William Steig Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN:  9-780374-386719 Audience: Written for ages 4-8.  This review suggests the book’s applicability to both young and mature audiences. Summary:  Two wooden figures, one pink and the

Name of Book: Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx Author: Jonah Winter Illustrator: Edel Rodriguez Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Audience: Ages 4-10 Summary: Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge grows in the Bronx is the life story of Supreme Court Justice, Sonia

Name of Book: Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote Author: Tanya Lee Stone Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Audience: Ages 4 – 10 Summary: This is the remarkable story of a remarkable woman, Elizabeth Cady

Name of Book:  The Color of Me Author:  Linda L. McDunn Illustrator: Barbara Knutson Publisher:  Liturgical Press Audience: Ages 5-8 Summary: The author uses the story of creation in Genesis to begin this book.  Very descriptive language is used and along with the illustrations

Name of Book: Black is Brown is Tan Author: Arnold Adoff Illustrator:  Emily Arnold McCully Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher Audience: Ages 5 -8 Summary: A poetic story about the everyday life in a racially mixed family. Literary elements at work in the story: The story takes

Name of Book :  The Giver Author:  Lois Lowry Publisher:  Laurel-Leaf Books Audience:  Ages 11 and up Summary:  Jonas and his family live in a perfect society where no one feels emotions or has to think for themselves. Each member of the community has a role which is assigned to

Name of Book:   The Black Snowman Author:   Phil Mendez Illustrator: Carole Byard Publisher:  Scholastic Paperbacks Audience:  ages 8+ Summary:  Christmas stories don’t usually begin in the grasslands of Africa with an old man preparing to tell the stories of his people, aided by