[CASL-L] International books for SLO

[Cathy Andronik]

If you can include nonfiction, there's a young reader's edition of I Am Malala.  Also, my high school students love A Long Way Gone (Beah), though it's pretty violent, about child soldiers in Africa.

Fiction:

A Million Shades of Gray--Kadohata (India)
Trash--Mulligan (purposely unnamed Third World Country, could be in Latin America)
The Secret Keeper--Mitali Perkins (India)
Beneath My Mother's Feet--Qamar (Pakistan)
Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet--Sheth (India) This was a BIG favorite of a former high school student of mine,
                    a conservative young lady from a very traditional Indian family)
The Keeping Corner--Sheth (India)
Shabanu--Staples (Bedouin)
Chanda's Secrets--Stratton (South Africa) (deals with the AIDS epidemic in Africa)
A Taste of Salt--Temple (Haiti)
Whale Rider--Ihimaera (Maori of New Zealand)
Over a Thousand Hills I Walk with You--Jansen (Rwanda)
Sold--McCormick (Nepal) (Child prostitution, not graphic)
A Long Walk to Water--Park (Sudan)
Never Fall Down--McCormick (Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge)
Esperanza Rising--Ryan (Mexico)

Cathy Andronik
Teacher Librarian
Brien McMahon High School
Norwalk
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On Tue, 1/6/15, Mary Lee <maryquinn at snet.net> wrote:

 Subject: [CASL-L] International books for SLO
 To: "casl-l at mylist.net" <casl-l at mylist.net>
 Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015, 9:15 AM
 
  Hi Everyone,
 I’m trying to help a colleague
 with her SLO. I’ve pasted what she is looking for below.
 If anyone has ideas of books or resources, I’d appreciate
 your feedback. Thanks! Mary Lee  I'm
 trying to develop a text set that would feature
 international books: with a focus on books from developing
 nations.  I need ones that will work for middle
 school--gritty without being too graphic. I want students to
 see how themes stretch across cultures and also how
 different cultures weigh qualities differently. (For
 example, how are girls' perspectives and expectations
 shaped by their culture?  How do issues like
 poverty/racism/war/religion play out in children's
 lives.)  These books could be written by American
 authors or authors from the region, but I'd like them to
 focus primarily on the perspective of kids from that
 culture.  (I've found a bunch from the perspective
 of an American or English teen who has to move to Africa,
 for example.  I'd like ones that told the story
 from the inside--rather than having a narrator from outside
 the culture.) I'm also
 wondering what is appropriate for middle school readers as
 far as rape and violence is concerned.  The Milk of Birds, for example has
 several rapes but I think is okay. Things Fall Down, a high school
 Nutmeg, has mass killings from the Khmer Rouge.  I
 don't know about that one. I am also looking for short
 stories and poems from nations across the globe.  (For
 example, I found a short story called "A Handful of
 Dates" written by a Sudanese author.)  I'd
 like this material to be written by people from that
 nation.  If you have
 any ideas about resources that would be great.  Mary Lee
 QuinnLibrary
 Media Specialist
 Torrington Middle School
 200 Middle School Drive
 Torrington, CT 06790860-496-4050
 x1149
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