Where possible, links to publishers have been provided. In some cases, the publisher's website will have additional information about a particular title. The codes at the end of each entry indicate audience interest levels (not reading levels), and are defined as follows, with the ages given being approximations:
The Bomb. Written by Theodore Taylor. New York: Harcourt Brace. (YA)
Children Just Like Me. Written and illustrated (with photographs) by Barnabas Kindersley and Anabel Kindersley. New York: DK Publishing. (A)
The Distant Talking Drum: Poems from Nigeria. Written by Isaac Olaleye; illustrated by Frané Lessac. Honesdale, PA:Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press. (A)
Earth, Fire, Water, Air. Written by Mary Hoffman; illustrated by Jane Ray. New York: Dutton. (A)
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. Written by Jaqueline Woodson. New York: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic. (YA)
Her Stories: African American Folktales. Told by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon. New York: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic. (A)
Immigrants: A Library of Congress Book. Written by Martin W. Sandle; illustrated with reproductions of materials from the Library of Congress. New York: HarperCollins. (ME, UE)
An Island Like You. Written by Judith Ortiz Cofer. New York: Orchard. (YA)
Leagues Apart. Written by Lawrence S. Ritter; illustrated by Richard Merkin. New York: Morrow Junior Books. (A)
Like Sisters on the Homefront. Written by Rita Williams-Garcia. New York: Lodestar/Dutton. (YA)
More Than Anything Else. Written by Marie Bradby; illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. New York: Orchard. (PR, ME)
Navajo Visions and Voices Across the Mesa. Written and illustrated by Shonto Begay. New York: Scholastic. (ME, UE, MS, YA)
The New King. Written by Doreen Rappaport; illustrated by E.B. Lewis. New York: Dial. (PR, ME)
Not Home. Written by Ann Grifalconi. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. (UE, MS, YA)
One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story. Written by David Adler; illustrated by Lloyd Bloom. New York: Gulliver Books/Harcourt Brace. (A)
Parallel Journeys. Written by Eleanor Ayer, with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. New York: Atheneum. (YA)
Sam and the Lucky Money. Written by Karen Chinn; illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. New York: Lee & Low. (PR, ME)
Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections. Written by Angela Shelf Medearis; illustrated by Michael Bryant. New York: Macmillan. (YA)
Thunder Cave. Written by Roland Smith. New York: Hyperion. (UE, MS)
Tonight by Sea. Written by Frances Temple. New York: Orchard. (UE, MS, YA)
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye; illustrated by Mexican artists. New York: Simon & Schuster. (A)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963. Written by Christopher Paul Curtis. New York: Delacorte. (UE, MS)
The Well. Written by Mildred Taylor. New York: Dial. (UE, MS, YA)
The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story. Written by Pegi Deitz Shea; illustrated by Anita Riggio; stitched by You Yang. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press. (PR, ME)
Belle Prater's Boy. Written by Ruth White. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (UE, MS)
Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places. Written by Joseph Bruchac; illustrated by Thomas Locker. New York: Harcourt Brace. (A)
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp. Written by Michael O. Tunnell and George Chilcoat; illustrated with photographs by Michael O. Tunnell. New York: Holiday House. (UE, MS)
Confetti: Poems for Children. Written by Pat Mora; illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez. New York: Lee & Low. (A)
Dangerous Skies. Written by Suzanne Fisher Staples. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (MS, YA)
The Day Gogo Went to Vote. Written by Elinor Batezat Sisulu; illustrated by Sharon Wilson. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. (A)
Free to Dream -- The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes. Written by Audrey Osofsky. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. (MS, YA)
The Final Journey. Written by Gudrun Pause-Wang; translated by Patricia Crampton. New York: Viking. (YA)
The Garden of Happiness. Written by Erika Tamar; illustrated by Barbara Lambase. New York: Harcourt Brace. (PR, ME)
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South. Written by Toyomi Igus; illustrated by Michele Wood. New York: Gulliver/Harcourt Brace. (A)
Golem. Written by David Wisniewski. New York: Clarion. (ME, UE, MS)
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. Written by Ann Rinaldi. New York: Harcourt Brace. (MS, YA)
In My Family/En Mi Familia. Written and illustrated by Carmen Lomas Garza. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press. (PR, ME)
In the Heart of the Village: The World of the Indian Banyan Tree. Written and illustrated by Barbara Bash. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club. (PR, ME)
Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade. Written by Irene Smalls; illustrated by Melodye Rosales. Boston, MA: Little, Brown. (PR, ME)
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse. Written by Russell Freeman; illustrated by Amos Bad Heart Bull. New York: Holiday House. (UE, MS, YA)
Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty. Written by Minfong Ho; illustrated by Jean Tseng and Mousien Tseng. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. (ME, UE)
Market! Written and illustrated by Ted Lewin. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. (ME, UE)
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman. Written by Alan Schroeder; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. New York: Dial. (PR, ME)
Mysterious Tales of Japan. Written by Rafé Martin; illustrated by Tatsuro Kiuchi. New York: Dutton. (UE, MS)
Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village. Written and illustrated by Ifeoma Ohyefulu. New York: Harcourt Brace. (ME, UE)
Peacebound Trains. Written by Haemi Balgassi; illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. New York: Clarion. (UE, MS)
Ribbons. Written by Laurence Yep. New York: Dutton. (UE, YA)
Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Story. Written by Rosemary Breckler; illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. (ME, UE)
When I Left My Village. Written by Maxine Rose Schur; illustrated by Brian Pinkney. New York: Dial. (UE, YA)
Africatrek : A Journey by Bicycle through Africa. Written and illustrated with photographs by Dan Buettner. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner. (UE, MS)
"Dear Friend" Thomas Garrett & William Still: Collaborators on the Underground Railroad. Written by Judith Bentley; illustrated with photographs and prints. New York: Cobblehill/Dutton. (MS, YA)
Echoes of the Elders: The Stories and Paintings of Chief Lelooska. Edited by Christine Normandin. New York: DK Publishing. (ME, UE)
The Flight of Red Bird. Written and illustrated by Doreen Rappaport. New York: Dial. (YA)
Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho. Written by Dawnine Spivak; illustrated by Demi. New York: Atheneum. (A)
Habibi. Written by Naomi Shihab Nye. New York: Simon & Schuster. (MS, YA)
Harlem. Written by Walter Dean Myers; illustrated by Christopher Meyers. New York: Scholastic. (A)
I Have A Dream. Written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; illustrated by Ashley Bryan, Carole Byard, Wil Clay, Floyd Cooper, Pat Cummings, Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Brian Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, James E. Ransome, Teréa Shaffer, Kathleen Atkins Wilson. New York: Scholastic. (A)
Jubilee Journey. Written by Carolyn Meyer. New York: Harcourt Brace. (YA)
Lasting Echoes. Written and illustrated by Joseph Bruchac. New York: Harcourt Brace. (UE, MS)
Ma Dear's Aprons. Written by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. New York: Atheneum. (PR)
Mist over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People. Written and illustrated with photographs by Raymond Bial. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. (ME, UE, MS, YA)
Nim and the War Effort. Written by Milly Lee; illustrated by Yangsook Choi. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (ME, UE)
One Grain of Rice. Written and illustrated by Demi. New York: Scholastic. (A)
Our Journey from Tibet. Written by Laurie Dolphin; illustrated with photographs by Nancy J. Johnson. New York: Dutton. (ME, UE)
The Paper Dragon. Written by Margarite W. Davol; illustrated by Robert Sabuda. New York: Atheneum. (PR, ME)
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. Written by Ken Mochizuki; illustrated by Dom Lee. New York: Lee & Low. (ME, UE)
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies, and Africa. Written by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Barry Moser. New York: Blue Sky Press/Scholastic. (A)
Sacred Shadows. Written by Maxine Rose Schur. New York: Dial. (MS, YA)
The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos. Edited by Nancy Wood. New York: Dutton. (UE, MS, YA)
The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People. Illustrated with photographsby Adam Mastoon. New York: Morrow/Lorthrop, Lee & Shepard. (MS, YA)
Slavery Time: When I Was Chillun. Edited by Belinda Hurmence; illustrated with photographs. New York: Dutton. (UE, MS)
Voices of the Heart. Written by Ed Young; illustrated by author. New York: Scholastic. (A)
When Jessie Came across the Sea. Written by Amy Hest; illustrated by P.J. Lynch. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick. (A)
The Window. Written by Michael Dorris. New York: Hyperion. (ME, UE, YA)
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom. Written by Walter Dean Myers. New York: Dutton. (ME, UE, MS, YA)
Animal Dreaming: An Aboriginal Dreamtime Story. Written by Paul Morin. San Diego, CA: Silver Whistle/Harcourt Brace. (PR, ME, UE)
Beyond the Mango Tree. Written by Amy Bronwen Zemser. New York: Greenwillow. (MS, YA)
Blue Star Rapture. Written by James W. Bennett. New York: Simon & Schuster. (MS, YA)
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South. Written by Ann Rinaldi. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace. (MS, YA)
Cool Melons -- Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa. Written by Matthew Golub; haiku translations by author; illustrated by Kazuko G. Stone; calligraphy by Keiko Smith. New York: Lee & Low. (A)
Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior. Written by Robert D. San Souci; illustrated by Jean Tseng and Mou-Sien Tseng. New York: Hyperion. (PR, ME, UE)
A Gift for Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead. Written by Nancy Luenn; illustrated by Robert Chapman. Flagstaff, AZ: Rising Moon/Northland. (PR, ME)
If You Come Softly. Written by Jacqueline Woodson. New York: Dutton. (YA)
Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America. Written by Carol Bierman with Barbara Hehner; illustrated by Laurie McGaw. New York: Hyperion. (ME, UE, MS)
Lacrosse: The National Game of the Iroquois. Written by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith; photographs by Lawrence Migdale. New York: Holiday House. (PR, ME, UE)
Marianthe's Story: Painted Words, Spoken Memories. Written by Aliki. New York: Greenwillow. (ME, UE)
Masada. Written and illustrated by Neil Waldman. New York: Morrow. (UE, MS, YA)
My Freedom Trip: A Child's Escape from North Korea. Written by Frances Park and Ginger Park; illustrated by Debra Reid Jenkins. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills. (PR, ME, UE)
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. Written by Anita Lobel. New York: Greenwillow. (MS, YA)
North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad. Written by Katherine Ayres. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell. (UE, MS)
The Roses in My Carpets. Written by Rukhsana Khan; illustrated by Ronald Himler. New York: Holiday House. (UE)
Shadow Spinner. Written by Susan Fletcher. New York: Atheneum. (MS, YA)
The Skin I'm In. Written by Sharon G. Flake. New York: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion. (MS, YA)
So Far from the Sea. Written by Eve Bunting; illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. New York: Clarion. (ME, UE)
Something Beautiful. Written by Sharon Dennis Wyeth; illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell. (PR, ME)
The Space between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. New York: Simon & Schuster. (UE, MS)
The Storytellers. Written and illustrated by Ted Lewin. New York: Lothrop,Lee & Shepard. (PR)
The Storyteller's Beads. Written by Jane Kurtz. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace. (UE, MS)
Touching the Distance: Native American Riddle-Poems. Written by Brian Swann; illustrated by Maria Rendon. San Diego, CA: Browndeer/Harcourt Brace. (A)