October 2009 RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books

Celebrate National Diversity Month this October with new lesson plans on titles that highlight diverse cultures and perspectives.

There are lesson plans for the juvenile books at www.learningthroughlistening.org.

Juvenile Titles

GR795
The breadwinner (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Ellis, Deborah. Douglas & McIntyre c2000. [Grade 3 and up].

JH794
Climbing the stairs (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Venkatraman, Padma. G.P. Putnam's Sons c2008. Grades 7-12.

JD834
Dad, Jackie, and me (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Uhlberg, Myron. Peachtree c2005. Pre-school - Grade 2.

HP059
The misfits (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Howe, James. Aladdin Paperbacks 2003, c2001. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. [Grades 3-8].

JB994
My first Ramadan (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Katz, Karen. Henry Holt and Co. c2007. 1st ed. Pre-school - grade 3.

JC801
Persepolis. [The story of a childhood] (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Satrapi, Marjane. Pantheon c2003. 1st American Paperback ed. Grade 9 and up.

JC772
Reaching for sun (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn. Bloomsbury Children's Books c2007. 1st U.S. ed. [Grades 2-7].

HD936
The skin I'm in (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Flake, Sharon. Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2000, c1998ed. 1st
Jump at the Sun pbk. ed. Grades 6-9.

JB334
Someday this pain will be useful to you (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Cameron, Peter. Farrar, Straus and Giroux c2007. 1st ed. Grade 8 and up.

GY746
Touching Spirit Bear (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Mikaelsen, Ben. HarperTrophy 2002, c2001. 1st Harper Trophy ed. [Grade 4 and up].

Adult/Teen Titles

HW200
Blind rage: letters to Helen Keller
Kleege, Georgina. Gallaudet University Press c2006.

GT479
Caramelo, or, Puro cuento: a novel
Cisneros, Sandra. Alfred A. Knopf c2002. 1st ed.

GT662
Don't tell mama!: the Penguin book of Italian American writing
Penguin Books c2002.

HY901
Flight: a novel
Alexie, Sherman. Black Cat c2007. 1st ed.

HH869
Herzog
Bellow, Saul. Penguin Books 2003, c1992.

JC171
Invisible man
Ellison, Ralph. Vintage International 1995, c1980. 2nd Vintage International ed.

HQ405
Lipstick jihad: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Moaveni, Azadeh. PublicAffairs 2006, c2005. Paperback ed.

HS102
Native speaker
Lee, Chang-rae. Riverhead Books 1996, c1995. 1st Riverhead trade paperback ed.

JA205
The perfect man: a novel
Murr, Naeem. Random House Trade Paperbacks c2007.

HT989
Private histories: the writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935
Ebest, Ron. University of Notre Dame Press c2005.