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These are new resources to expand your knowledge of the cultures, historical backgrounds, geography, and issues that appear in Heartwood books for the intermediate levels: 3/4, 4/5, and 5/6. Books are listed alphabetically by title, click on the titles to access the corresponding Culture Keys.
Also available: Teaching Culture in the Elementary Classroom.
Be Good to Eddie Lee (Down syndrome, North Carolina) The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh (Cambodia, Buddhism) The Cello of Mr. O (Bosnia, ethnic conflict, Red Cross) Coolies (Chinese history and immigration) Cornrows (Slave trade, Hair styles) The Crab Man (Jamaica, animal cruelty) Crazy Horse's Vision (Plains Indians, Vision Quest) Crow Boy (Rural Japan) The Day Gogo Went to Vote (South Africa, Apartheid) A Dime a Dozen (Poetry, Hopscotch) The Fire Keeper's Son (South Korea, North Korea) Fire on the Mountain (Ethiopia) The Gingerbread Doll (Wisconsin, Depression agriculture) Going Home (Mexico, Mestizos, Migrant workers) The Great Kapok Tree (Yanamomo, Amazon rain forest) Home at Last (Mexico, Hispanic Americans, ESL) How Many Days to America (Caribbean nations, immigration) Knots on a Counting Rope (Blindness, Cultural authenticity) The Lady in the Box (Homelessness) Lewis and Papa (Santa Fe Trail, Pioneers) The Lotus Seed (Vietnam history) Masai and I (Maasai, Kenya) The Memory Coat (Russian Jewish history, Ellis Island) My Man Blue (Harlem, Basketball) Nadia's Hands (Pakistan) Nettie's Trip South (Slavery, Abolitionists) One Small Blue Bead (Anasazi, Pueblos, Southwest U.S) Peppe the Lamplighter (Italian immigration, Child Labor) Pink and Say (Civil war) Prince Boghole (Ireland, Celts, Animal Symbolism) A River Ran Wild (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pollution) Sitti's Secret (West Bank, Palestinians) The Storm (Indiana, Wheelchairs) The Summer My Father Was Ten (Italian Americans, Gardens) Sunshine Home (Nursing homes) The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks (Japanese feudal system) Tea With Milk (Osaka, Japan, Tea, Japanese clothing) Teammates (Baseball, Negro Leagues) Thank You, Mr. Falker (Dyslexia, Bullying, Michigan) Train to Somewhere (New York history, Orphan trains) The Wall (Washington D.C., Vietnam vets) The Warrior and the Wise Man (Japan, Samurai) Wilma Unlimited (Polio, Clarksville, TN, Racism) Annie and the Old One (Navajo)
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