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Review of the Left Bank Series

Review of Secrets, Edited by Linny Stovall

"Secrets: Who Doesn't Know?", by Martin Bell

Review of Writing Across Cultures, by Edna Kovacs

Review of Classroom Publishing, by Laurie King and Dennis Stovall

Review of Ricochet River, by Robin Cody

Review of Run Far, Run Fast, by

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READING FOR 1997:

Review of Passage to Lahore by Julian Samuel

Review of On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples, by Joseph Marshall III

RECOMMENDED JUVENILE LITERATURE:

About Animals...

Borreguita y el Coyote, de Verna Aardema

Stellaluna © 1993 by Janell Cannon

Clap Your Hands, by Lorinda Bryan Cauley

The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, by Phoebe Gilman

Biographies and Community Histories:

Diego, by Jeanette Winter and Joseph Winter

On the Day You Were Born, by Debra Frasier

Knoxville, Tennessee, by Nikki Giovanni

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, by Paul Goble

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

To Hell With Dying, by Alice Walker

Crow Boyby Taro Yashima

FAMILIES:

Mama Do You Love Me?, Written by Barbara M. Joosse

You're My Nikki, Written by Phyllis Rose Eisenberg. Illustrated by Jill Kastner.

The Rough-Face Girl, Written by Rafe Martin. Pictures by David Shannon.

The Whale's Song, by Dyan Sheldon. Paintings by Gary Blythe. FRIENDS:

Manzano, manzano!, por Mary Blocksma

Jessica, by Kevin Henkes

Chicken Sunday, by Patricia Polacco

Duncan and Dolores, by Barbara Samuels

Maebelle's Suitcase, by Tricia Tusa

Inhabiting Our Planet:

The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain, written and Illustrated by Arnold Lobel.

La Mujer Que Brillando Aun Mas Que El Sol, basado en el poema de Alejandro Cruz Martinez