BOOK LIST for Adopting a Multicultural Perspective

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Baseball Saved Us �" Japanese American Written by Ken Mochizuki, Illustrated by Dom Lee. 1993. New York: Lee & Low Books Inc. A Japanese boy and his family are moved to an internment camp in the early 1940s. The boy’s father decides that they need a baseball field to help pass the time and to bring a sense of normalcy to the camp. Playing baseball seems to lift the spirits of the people, and the little boy is determined to overcome his small size by working hard at becoming a good player. Halmoni and the Picnic �" Korean American Written by Sook Nyul Choi, Illustrated by Karen Dugan. 1993. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company Yunmi’s grandmother, Halmoni, has just moved to New York from Korea and is finding it difficult to adjust to American culture. Yunmi hopes that having Halmoni chaperone a class trip to Central Park will help her feel more at home. But at the same time, Yunmi is worried that her classmates will not accept Halmoni’s traditional Korean dress and the Korean food she has prepared for the trip. In My Family/En Mi Familia �" Mexican American Written and Illustrated by Carmen Lomas Garza. 1996. San Francisco: Children’s Book Press Garza writes about and illustrates aspects of ...