Reading List for Students
Best Books List
Best Children's Books of the Year. Bank Street College of Education. United States: 2004.
Capitol Choices. The Capitol Choices Committee. United States: 2005.
Bulletin Blue Ribbons. Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. United States: 2004.
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, Supplement, H. W. Wilson; United States 2005;
The Children's Literature Choice List. Children's Literature. United States: 2005.
Choices. Cooperative Children's Book Center. United States: 2005.
Fanfare Honor List. Horn Book. United States 2004.
Kirkus Book Review Stars. United States: April 1, 2004.
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Ninth Edition. H.W. Wilson. United States: 2005.
Nonfiction Honor List. VOYA. United States: 2004.
Notable Books for a Global Society. IRA Children's Literature and Reading SIG. United States: 2005.
Notable Children's Books. American Library Association ALSC.United States: 2005.
Publishers Weekly Book Review Stars. Cahners. United States: March 22, 2004;
School Library Journal Book Review Stars. Cahners. United States: July 2004.
School Library Journal: Best Books. Cahners. United States: 2004.
Teachers' Choices. International Reading Association. United States: 2005.
List of African and Africa American Authors (This is not complete, but it's a start.)
Classical: Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Charles Chesnutt, Sherley Anne Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maryse Conde, W.E.B. DuBois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Buchi Emecheta, Jessie Fauset, Frances Harper, Langston Hughes, Chester Himes, Zora Neale Hurston, William Melvin Kelly, John Oliver Killens, Nella Larsen, Julius Lester, Claude McKay, Toni Morrison, V.S. Naipal, Ann Petry, Jean Toomer, Alice Walker, Margeret Walker, Dorothy West, John Williams, Richard Wright
Gay & Lesbian: Donna Allegra, Steven Corbin, Melvin Dixon, Larry Duplechan
James Earl Hardy, E. Lynn Harris, Randall Kenan, Audre Lorde, Darieck Scott
Historical: Barbara Hambly, Charles Johnson, Edward Jones, Hiram King, Julius Lester, JamesMcEachin Toni Morrison, Jewel Parker Rhodes, Malcolm X, Gordon Parks
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror: Steven Barnes, Levar Burton, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Tananarive Due
Mystery & Suspense: EleanorBland, Charlotte Carter, Christopher Chambers, Christopher Darden, Nora DeLoach, Grace Edwards, Ardella Garland, Gary Hardwick, Chester Himes, Hugh Holton, Guy Johnson, Norman Kelley, Jake Lamar, Lee E. Meadows, PennyMickelbury, C.M. Miller, Walter Mosley, Barbara Neely, Kris Nelscott, Gary Phillips, John Ridley, Ian Smith, Blair S. Walker, Chassie West, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Paula L. Woods
Urban Life: Toni CadeBambara, Claude Brown, Paul Beatty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stanley Crouch, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Nelson George, Nathan McCall, Claude McKay, Willard Motley, Jess Mowry, Robert Deane Pharr, John Edgar Wideman, Al Young, Connie Porter, Ishmael Reed, Haki Madhubuti, Patrick Chamoiseau, Micheal Eric Dyson, Reginald McKnight, Elease Southerland, Arthur Flowers
Romance: Rochelle Alers Anita, Richmond Bunkley, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Ardella Garland, Gary Hardwick, Chester Himes, Hugh Holton, Guy Johnson, Norman Kelley, Lee E. Meadows, Connie Briscoe, Maxine Clair, Pearl Cleage, J. California Cooper, Marita Golden, Rosa Guy, Marsha Hunt, Sheneska Jackson, Gayl Jones, Slim Lambright, Benilde Little, Andrea Lee, BerniceMcFadden, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Terry McMillan, Devorah Major, Paule Marshall, LouiseMeriwether, Karen E. Quinones Miller, Mary Monroe, Gloria Naylor, Z Z Packer, Ann Petry, Connie Porter, Kimberla Lawson, Roby Lucinda Roy, Ntozake Shange,Van Whitfield
The South and The Village: Raymond Andrews, Kofi Awoonor, Austin Clarke, Martin Delany, Ernest J. Gaines, John O. Killens, E. Eric Lincoln, Clarence Major, Flora Nwapa, OkotP' Bitek, Michelle Cliff, Caryl Phillips,William Gardner Smith, Susan Straight, Henry VanDyke, Colson Whitehead, Sarah E. Wright, Bessie Head, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Bestsellers: Bertice Berry, Sheila Copeland, Eric Jerome Dickey, Donald Goins, Linda Grosvenor, E. Lynn Harris, David Haynes, Timmothy B. McCann, Kim McLaurin, Rosalyn McMillan, Terry McMillan, Ben Okri, Karen Quinones, Miller Mary Morrison, Sister Souljah, Camika Spencer, Omar Tyree, Van Whitfield Young Adult: Christopher Paul Curtis, Sharon Flake, Mildred Pitts Walter, Camille Yarbrough, Nikki Grimes, Walter Dean Myers, Jacqueline Woodson, Maya Angelou, Tina McElroy Ansa, Melba Patillo Beale, Bebe Campbell Moore, Sharon Bell Mathis, Edwidge Danicat, Sharon Draper, Eloise Greenfield, Virginia Hamilton, Kristin Hunter, Angela Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Opoku, June Jordan, Rita Garcia Williams, Ann Moody, Amos Tutuola, Mariama Ba, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Mildred Taylor, Sheila Moses, Christina Garcia
Materials for Class Room Use
Magazines
New York Times Book Review
Black Issues Book Review
Web Sites
- www.pacificnet/~johnr/cgi/aesop1.cgi? (Aesop's Fables, Life and History)
- http://home.cogeco,ca/~rayser3/lessons3.htm (Outta Ray's Head Lessons)
- http://www.monmouth.com/~literature (Dr. G's lesson plans for high school)
- http://www.learner.org. (video's of authors and literature)
- http://www.yalsa.org. This website posts students' book reviews. Teen Week is celebrated October 15th -21st. Students may vote for the ten best books that were nominated by teen reading groups from around the country. There are many other activities suggested for that week.
- http://www.ala.org/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/yaGalleyApplication2006-2008.doc Student reading groups may register to become part of the book selection process and submit book reviews.
- http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/activities/swar/write.asp This website has many ideas to encourage students to read and write.
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