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A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

A Celebration of Identity: Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. p repared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD Associate Professor of Education Mount Saint Mary College Newburgh, New York (email: jane.gangi@msmc.edu).

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  1. A Celebration of Identity:Black Men and Boys in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

    prepared by Jane M. Gangi, PhD Associate Professor of Education Mount Saint Mary College Newburgh, New York (email: jane.gangi@msmc.edu)
  2. This slide show was originally created for the summit, Building a Bridge to Literacy for African American Male Youth, which was held at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, held 3-5 June 2012. I continue to update the slide, and have received suggestions from readers for more books. I appreciate any suggestions you might have.
  3. Picture Books Biographies
  4. Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier’s Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  5. Christine Farris and Chris Soentpiet’s My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  6. Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, and Benny Andrews’s John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
  7. Eloise Greenfield and George Ford’s Paul Robeson
  8. Roslyn Jordan, Deloris Jordan, and Kadir Nelson’s Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
  9. Quincy Troupe and Lisa Cohen’s Little Stevie Wonder
  10. Charles R. Smith and Bryan Collier’s Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
  11. Nikki Grimes and Bryan Collier’s Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
  12. Jane Halfmann and Duane Smith’s Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story
  13. Crystal Hubbard and Robert McGuire’s The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
  14. Elizabeth MacLeod’s George Washington Carver: An Innovative Life
  15. Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson’s I and I
  16. William Miller and Rodney S. Pate’s Joe Louis, My Champion
  17. Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney’s Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
  18. Chris Raschka’s Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
  19. Gaylia Taylor and Frank Morrison’s George Crum and the Saratoga Chip
  20. Wendy Towle and Wil Clay’s The Real McCoy: The Life of an African-American Inventor
  21. Floyd Cooper’s Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes
  22. Lesa Cline-Ransomeand James Ransome’s Satchel Paige
  23. Chris Crowe’s Just as Good: How Larry Doby Changed America’s Game
  24. William Miller and R. Gregory Christie’s Richard Wright and the Library Card
  25. Matt Tavares’sHenry Aaron’s Dream
  26. David Adler and Robert Casilla’sA Picture Book of Jackie Robinson
  27. Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome’s Young Pelé: Soccer’s First Star
  28. Lesa Cline-Ransomeand James Ransome’s Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist
  29. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld, Ben Boos, and A. G. Ford’s What Color Is My World? The Lost History of African American Inventors
  30. Walter Dean Myers and Leonard Jenkins’s Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly
  31. Lynne Barasch’sKnockin’ on Wood Starring Peg Leg Bates
  32. Robert Andrew Parker’sPiano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum
  33. Kai Jackson Issa and Arthur L. Dawson’s Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
  34. Don Tate and R. Gregory Christie’sIt Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
  35. Crystal Hubbard and Kevin Belford’s Game Set Match Champion: Arthur Ashe
  36. Tonya Bolden and R. Gregory Christie’s The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali
  37. Yona Zeldis McDonough and Malcah Zeldis’sPeaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela
  38. Floyd Cooper’sMandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman
  39. John Duggleby and Jacob Lawrence’sStory Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
  40. Sharon Bell Mathis and George Ford’sRay Charles
  41. Robert Burleigh and Marek Los’sLookin’ for Bird in the Big City
  42. Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls’s Before John Was a Jazz Giant: ASong of John Coltrane
  43. David Wisniewski’sSundiata: Lion King of Mali
  44. Kephra Burns, Leo and Diane Dillon’sMansa Musa: The Lion of Mali
  45. Marie Bradby and Chris Soenpiet’sMore Than Anything Else
  46. Picture Books Contemporary Realistic Fiction
  47. Jeri Hanel Watts and Felicia Marshall’sKeepers
  48. John Steptoe and E. B. Lewis’sCreativity
  49. Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’sJoe-Joe’s First Flight
  50. Lucille Clifton and Ann Grifalconi’sEverett Anderson's Goodbye
  51. Edwidge Danticat and Alix Delinois’sEight Days: A Story of Haiti
  52. Melrose Cooper and Nneka Bennett’sGettin’ Through Thursday
  53. Mary Hoffman and Karen Littlewood’s The Colour of Home
  54. Frané Lessac’s My Little Island
  55. Natasha Tarpley and E. B. Lewis’s Bippity Bob Barbershop
  56. Wade Hudson and George Ford’s Jamal’s Busy Day
  57. Brian Jordan, Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu’s I Told You I Can Play!
  58. Brian Pinkney’s Max Found Two Sticks
  59. Chris Raschka’s Yo! Yes!
  60. Irene Smalls-Hector and Michael Hays’s Jonathan and His Mommy
  61. Javaka Steptoe’s The Jones Family Express
  62. John Steptoe’s Stevie
  63. Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie’s Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
  64. Shane Evans’s Olu’s Dream
  65. Jacqueline Woodson and James Ransome’s Visiting Day
  66. Youme’s Sélavi: A Haitian Story of Hope
  67. Nikki Grimes and Mike Benny’s Oh, Brother!
  68. Bryan Collier’sUptown
  69. Jennifer RiesmeyerElvgren and Nicole Tadgell’sJosias, Hold the Book
  70. Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and Aaron Boyd’sBabu’s Song
  71. Tolowa Molleland E. B. Lewis’sMy Rows and Piles of Coins
  72. Cristina Kessler and Leonard Jenkins’s Best Beekeeper of Lalibela
  73. Elizabeth Alalouand Julie Klear Essakalli’sThe Butter Man
  74. Clifton L. Taulbert and E. B. Lewis’sLittle Cliff’s First Day of School
  75. Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’sDaddy Calls Me a Man
  76. Wade Hudson and Peter Ambush’sIt’s Church Going Time
  77. DenizeLauture and Jonathan Green’sFather and Son
  78. Jerdine Nolen and Kadir Nelson’sHewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
  79. G. Francis Johnson, Gail Johnson, & Dimitrea Tokunbo’sHas Anybody Lost a Glove?
  80. Picture Books Historical Fiction
  81. Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s The Old African
  82. Angela Johnson and Loren Long’s I Dream of Trains
  83. Angela Johnson’s and Loren Long’sWind Flyers
  84. Andrea Davis Pinkney and J. Brian Pinkney’sSit-In:How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
  85. Patricia McKissack and Leo and Diane Dillon’s Never Forgotten
  86. Deborah Hopkinson and Raúl Colón’sA Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
  87. William Miller and Charlotte Riley Webb’s Rent Party Jazz
  88. Aminah Lynn Robinson’sA Street Called Home
  89. Phil Bildner and John Holyfield’sThe Hallelujah Flight
  90. Margaree King Mitchell and James Ransome’sUncle Jed’s Barbershop
  91. Shane W. Evan’sUnderground: Finding the Light to Freedom
  92. Lorenzo Pace’s Jalani and the Lock
  93. Tim Tingle and Jeanne Rorex Bridges’ sCrossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
  94. Carol Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue’sFreedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
  95. Debbie A. Taylor and Frank Morrison’sSweet Music in Harlem
  96. Richard Michelson and E. B. Lewis’sHappy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me
  97. Jacob Lawrence’s The Great Migration: An American Story
  98. Glenda Armand and Colin Bootman’sLove Twelve Miles Long
  99. Gavin Curtis and E. B. Lewis’s The Bat Boy and His Violin
  100. Walter Dean Myers and Ann Grifalconi’s Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
  101. Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison’s Let Them Play
  102. ToyomiIgus and Higgins Bond’s When I Was Little
  103. Graphic Novels
  104. Youme Landowneand Anthony Horton’sPitch Black
  105. Greg Neri and Randy DuBurke’sYummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
  106. Andrew Helfer and Randy DuBurke’sMalcolm X: A Graphic Biography
  107. Poetry & Short Stories
  108. Paul Laurence Dunbar’sJump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
  109. Walter Dean Myers’sHere in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
  110. Jeron Ashford Frame and R. Gregory Christie’sYesterday I Had the Blues
  111. Gwendolyn Brooks and Faith Ringgold’sBronzeville Boys and Girls
  112. Javaka Steptoe’s In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
  113. Patricia A. Keeler and Júlio T. Leitão’sDrumbeat in Our Feet
  114. Greg Neri and Jesse Joshua Watson’sChess Rumble
  115. Davida Adedjouma, and Gregory Christie’s The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
  116. Charles Sullivan’s Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young People
  117. Ashley Bryan’sAshley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry
  118. Alice Faye Duncan and Susan Keeter’sHoney Baby Sugar Child
  119. Karen English and Javaka Steptoe’s Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
  120. Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory Christie’sJazz Baby
  121. Cynthia Cotton and Javaka Steptoe’sRain Play
  122. Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewis’s The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  123. Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Harlem
  124. Langston Hughes and Romare Bearden’sThe Block
  125. Langston Hughes and Brian Pinkney’sThe Dreamkeeper and Other Poems
  126. Tony Medina and R. Gregory Christie’sLove to Langston
  127. Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’sJazz
  128. Willie Perdomo and Bryan Collier’sVisiting Langston
  129. Charles R. Smith’s Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys’ Choir of Harlem
  130. Véronique Tadjo’sTalking Drums: A Selection of Poems from Africa South of the Sahara
  131. Marilyn Nelson and Phillipe Lardy’sA Wreath for Emmett Till
  132. James Weldon Johnson and Bryan Collier’sLift Every Voice and Sing
  133. Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson’sEllington Was Not a Street
  134. Arnold Adoff’sI Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
  135. Sharon Flake’s You Don’t Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys
  136. Tupac Shakur’sThe Rose That Grew from Concrete
  137. Countee Cullen’sCaroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties
  138. Betsy Franco’sYou Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys
  139. Informational Texts & Visual Arts
  140. Katie Smith Milway and Eugenie Fernandes’s One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
  141. Hill Harper’s Letters to a Young Brother:Manifest Your Destiny
  142. Curtis Granderson’sAll You Can Be: Learning and Growing Through Sports
  143. Sharon Robinson’sPromises to Keep:How Jackie Robinson Changed America
  144. Trish Marx and Ellen B. Sensi’s Steel Drumming at the Apollo: The Road to Super Top Dog
  145. Tonya Bolden’s Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists
  146. Tonya Bolden’s Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementoes of Being Young and Black in America
  147. Virginia Hamilton and Leo and Diane Dillon’s Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
  148. Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack’s Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts
  149. Julius Lester and Rod Brown’s From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
  150. Russell Freedman’s Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  151. Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
  152. Jackie Napoleon Wilson’s Hidden Witness: African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War
  153. Velma Maia Thomas’s No Man Can Hinder Me: The Journey of Slavery to Emancipation Through Song
  154. Kephra Burns and William Miles’s Black Stars in Orbit: NASA’s African American Astronauts
  155. Michele Wood and Toyomi Igus’si see rhythm
  156. Elizabeth Partridge’s Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
  157. Patricia and Frederick McKissack and James Ransome’s Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color to His Daughter, Charlotte, in Charleston, South Carolina, 1806-1816
  158. Michael L. Cooper’sHell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I
  159. Michael L. Cooper’s The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World War II
  160. Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack’s Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues
  161. Casey King, Linda Barrett Osborne and Joe Brooks’s Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen
  162. Toni Morrison’s Remember: The Journey to School Integration
  163. Jacqueline Harris’sThe Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II
  164. Kadir Nelson’sHeart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
  165. Ellen Levine’s Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
  166. John Middleton’sAfrica: An Encyclopedia for Students
  167. Ifeoma Onyefulu’sIkenna Goes to Nigeria
  168. Gilbert Ahiagble, Louise Meyer, and Nestor Hernandez’sThe Master Weaver from Ghana
  169. Walter Dean Myers’s Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom
  170. Robert Mayer’sWhen the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
  171. James Haskins’sThe March on Washington
  172. Ann Bausum’sFreedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
  173. Chris Crowe’sGetting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
  174. Kadir Nelson’sWe Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball
  175. Tonya Bolden and Ansel Pitcairn’sPortraits of African-American Heroes
  176. Tonya Bolden’sStrong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men
  177. Screenplay/ Drama
  178. Caleen Sinette Jennings’s Free Like Br’er Rabbit
  179. Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’sMonster
  180. Middle Grades Novels Contemporary Realistic Fiction
  181. Frances Temple’sGrab Hands and Run
  182. Frances Temple’sA Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti
  183. Jacqueline Woodson’sPeace, Locomotion
  184. Monalisa DeGross and Amy June Bates’sDonavan's Double Trouble
  185. Panise Hart Flood’sIt’s Test Day, Tiger Turcotte
  186. Panise Hart Flood’sTiger Turcotte Takes on the Know-it-All
  187. Sharon Draper’sZiggy and the Black Dinosaurs: The Buried Bones Mystery
  188. Sharon Draper’sZiggy and the Black Dinosaurs: The Buried Bones Mystery
  189. Sharon Draper’sZiggy and the Black Dinosaurs: Lost in the Tunnel of Time
  190. Angela Johnson’sManiac Monkey's on Magnolia Street
  191. Angela Johnson’sManiac Monkey's on Magnolia Street
  192. Angela Johnson’sWhen Mules Flew on Magnolia Street
  193. Patricia and Frederick McKissack’sMiami Gets It Straight
  194. Patricia and Frederick McKissack’sMiami Makes the Play
  195. Patricia and Frederick McKissack’sMiami Sees it Through
  196. Charisse K. Richardson’sThe Real Slam Dunk
  197. Deborah Ellis’sJakeman
  198. Novels Historical Fiction
  199. Virginia Hamilton’s The House of Dies Drear
  200. Kekla Magoon’sThe Rock and the River
  201. Joyce Hansen’sWhich Way Freedom?
  202. Joyce Hansen’s Out from This Place
  203. Mildred D. Taylor’s The Well: David’s Story
  204. Mildred Taylor’sRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  205. Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
  206. Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bud, Not Buddy
  207. Walter Dean Myers’sFallen Angels
  208. Meja Mwangi’s The Mzungu Boy
  209. Sheila P. Moses’sThe Legend of Buddy Bush
  210. Christopher Paul Curtis’s Elijah of Buxton
  211. Candy Dawson Boyd’sChevrolet Saturdays
  212. Chapter Books Biographies and Autobiographies
  213. Sharon Robinson’s Jackie’s Nine
  214. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt’sWe Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
  215. Savion Glover and Bruce Weber’s Savion: My Life in Tap
  216. Tonya Bolden’sW. E. B. DuBois: A Twentieth-Century Life
  217. Chris Crowe’s Thurgood Marshall: A Twentieth-Century Life
  218. Myra Ribeiro’sThe Assassination of Medgar Evers
  219. Jan Greenberg and Romare Bearden’sPaul Robeson
  220. Baba Wagué Diakité’s A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an African Childhood
  221. Mawi Asgedom’s Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream
  222. Tonya Bolden and Bob Adelman’sM.L.K.: Journey of a King
  223. Larry Dane Brimmer’sWe Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
  224. Leon Tillage and Susan L. Roth’sLeon’s Story
  225. Ann Parr and Kathryn Breidenthal’sGordon Parks: No Excuses
  226. Manfred Weidhorn’sJackie Robinson
  227. Walter Dean Myers’sBad Boy: A Memoir
  228. Alice Walker and Catherine Deeter’sLangston Hughes: American Poet
  229. Bonnie Hinman’sBenjamin Banneker: American Mathematician and Astronomer
  230. Virginia Hamilton’sAnthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
  231. Alex Simmons’sBen Carson
  232. Chapter Books Urban Fantasy
  233. Zetta Elliott’sShip of Souls
  234. Folklore
  235. Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’sThe Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
  236. Baba Wagué Diakité’s The Hatseller and the Monkeys: A West African Folktale
  237. Jerry Pinkney’s Aesop’s Fables
  238. Eboni Bynum, Roland Jackson and Baba Wagué Diakité’s Jamari’s Drum
  239. Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert’sHead, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia
  240. Isaac O. Olaleye and Ann Grifalconi’s In the Rainfield: Who Is the Greatest?
  241. Tololwa Mollel and Linda Saport’s Subira, Subira
  242. Baba Wagué Diakité’s Mee-An and the Magic Serpent
  243. Concept & Board Books
  244. Denize Lauture and Reynold Ruffins’s Running the Road to ABC
  245. Randy DuBurke’s Little Mister
  246. Dakari Hru’s Tickle Tickle
  247. Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s Joshua by the Sea
  248. Angela Johnson and Rhonda Mitchell’s Joshua’s Night Whispers
  249. Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Kadir Nelson’s Please, Baby, Please
  250. Sandra and Myles Pinkney’s Shades of Black
  251. Novels in Verse
  252. Julius Lester’sDays of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
  253. Marilyn Nelson’sCarver: A Life in Poems
  254. Hope Anita Smith and Shane W. Evans’sThe Way a Door Closes
  255. Zetta Elliott’sBird
  256. Jacqueline Woodson’sLocomotion
  257. Young Adult Literature Classic and Contemporary
  258. Jacqueline Woodson’sMiracle’s Boys
  259. Derrick Barne’sWe Could Be Brothers
  260. B. A. Binns’sPull
  261. Jacqueline Woodson’sFrom the Notebooks of the Melanin Sun
  262. Claude Brown’sManchild in the Promised Land
  263. August Wilson’sJoe Turner’s Come and Gone
  264. Walter Dean Myers’sThe Beast
  265. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
  266. Chinua Achebe’sArrow of God
  267. James Baldwin’sGo Tell It on the Mountain
  268. James Baldwin’sThe Fire Next Time
  269. Ralph Ellison’sInvisible Man
  270. August Wilson’sFences
  271. Paul Volponi’sBlack and White
  272. Walter Dean Myers’s Lockdown
  273. Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers’s Autobiography of My Dead Brother
  274. Julian Houston’sNew Boy
  275. Nikki Grimes’s Bronx Masquerade
  276. Jacqueline Woodson’sBehind You
  277. Richard Wright’sNative Son
  278. Richard Wright’sRite of Passage
  279. Walter Mosley’s47
  280. Young Adult Literature Classic and Contemporary Informational Texts, Autobiographies and Biographies
  281. David Walker’sDavid Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
  282. W. E. B. DuBois’sThe Souls of Black Folk
  283. Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  284. Booker T. Washington’sUp from Slavery
  285. Richard Wright’s Black Boy
  286. James Baldwin’s My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation
  287. Ben Carson’sThing Big
  288. Ben Carson’sThe Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important in Life
  289. Mark Mathabane’sKaffir Boy in America: An Encounter with Apartheid
  290. Farrah Gray’sReallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out
  291. Walter Dean Myers’sThe Greatest: Muhammad Ali
  292. Alex Haley and Malcolm X’sThe Autobiography of Malcolm X
  293. Miles Corwin’sAnd Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City Students
  294. Alex Kotlowitz’sThere Are No Children Here
  295. Carter G. Woodson’sThe Mis-education of the Negro
  296. Walter Mosley’sWorking on the Chain Gang:Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
  297. Anthony C. Davis and Jeffrey W. Jackson’sYo, Little Brother:Basic Rules of Survival for Young African American Males
  298. James Goodman’sStories of Scottsboro
  299. LeAlan Jones, Llyod Newman and David Isay’sOur America:Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
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  333. Thanks to Karin Mansberg, Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Nancy Heilbronner for artistic and technical help. Thanks, also, to those who made suggestions: Judy Duguid of the Ohio Resource Center Damien Holst Sandra Hughes-Hassell Ernest Morrell (through his writings) Mary Ann Reilly Merle Rumble Alfred Tatum (through his writings)
  334. Resources This powerpoint will be made available at: http://bridgetolit.web.unc.edu/ --Please feel free to share widely. Also, for multicultural and international resources, please see my current website: http://www.wcsu.edu/sps/fbiojgangi.asp Forthcoming: Center for Literacy at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY Connecticut Reading Association Website
  335. Dedicated toLaconia Therrio—storyteller, chaplain, therapist, friend, and recipient of the 2012 Barbara Reed Award for distinguished and outstanding service to the Connecticut Storytelling Center
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