Open Court

Grade 5

Heritage

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Chocolate, Deborah M. Newton. Kwanzaa. Chicago : Childrens

Press, c1990. Discusses the holiday in which

African-Americans celebrate their roots and cultural

heritage.

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Perl, Lila. The great ancestor hunt : the fun of finding out who

you are. New York : Clarion Books, c1989. A guide for

tracing one's ancestors via various means. An appendix

describes how to use a number of available government

resources.

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Huynh, Quang Nhuong. The land I lost : adventures of a boy in

Vietnam. 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, c1982. A

collection of personal reminiscences of the author's youth

in a hamlet on the central highlands of Vietnam.

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Katz, William Loren. Black Indians : a hidden heritage. 1st ed.

New York : Atheneum, 1986. Traces the history of relations

between blacks and American Indians, and the existence of

black Indians, from the earliest foreign landings through

pioneer days.

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Casagrande, Louis B. Focus on Mexico : modern life in an ancient

land. Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1986.

Examines the diversity of life in modern Mexico, its peoples

and complex cultural heritage, and how past and present

combine in a blend of cultures.

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An Album for Americans. 1st ed. New York : Triangle

Publications : Crown Publishers, c1983. Relates the

heritage of America beginning with Christopher Columbus.

Includes many famous documents; speeches; the military

record; portraits; symbols of each era and notable events.

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Look, Lenore. Love as strong as ginger. 1st ed. New York :

Atheneum Books, 1998. A Chinese American girl comes to

realize how hard her grandmother works to fulfill her dreams

when they spend a day together at the grandmother's job

cracking crabs.

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Mak, Kam. My Chinatown : one year in poems. 1st ed. New York :

HarperCollins, c2002. A boy adjusts to life away from his

home in Hong Kong, the Chinatown of his new American city.

F Ayr

Ayres, Katherine. Family tree. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell

Books for Young Readers, c1996. While trying to construct

her family tree for a school assignment, eleven-year-old

Tyler discovers her Amish heritage and other secrets about

her family's past.

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Crew, Gary, 1947-. No such country. 1st U.S. ed. New York :

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994. When an

archeology student, hoping to learn about his Aboriginal

heritage, comes to work near their isolated village,

sixteen-year-old friends Sarah and Rachel discover why the

man known as the Father has had such control over their

lives.

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Kherdian, David. Asking the river : a novel. New York : Orchard

Books, c1993. While trying to make it through elementary

school in Racine, Wisconsin, a thirteen-year-old Armenian

American boy must come to terms with his heritage, his

parents' expectations, and his own uncertainty about what he

wants from life.

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Lord, Bette. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. 1st

ed. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c1984. In 1947, a

Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes

Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by

her love for baseball.

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Marsden, Carolyn. The gold-threaded dress. 1st ed. Cambridge,

Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002. When Oy and her Thai

American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade

classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.

F Tay

Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of thunder, hear my cry. New York :

Dial, c1976. An African-American family living in the South

during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination

which its children don't understand.

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Yep, Laurence. Child of the owl. 1st ed. New York : Harper &

Row, c1977. A twelve-year-old girl who knows little about

her Chinese heritage is sent to live with her grandmother in

San Francisco's Chinatown.

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Pitts, Paul. Racing the sun. New York : Avon Books, c1988.

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Conrad, Pam. My Daniel. New York : HarperColllins, c1989.

Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their

grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical

quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm.

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Nixon, Joan Lowery. Search for the shadowman. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, c1996. While

working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history

class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery

surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing

the family fortune.

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Hamilton, Virginia. M.C. Higgins, the great.

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Ortiz Cofer, Judith, 1952-. An island like you : stories of the

barrio. New York : Puffin Books, 1996. Twelve stories

about young people caught between their Puerto Rican

heritage and their American surroundings.

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Yolen, Jane. The devil's arithmetic. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :

Viking Kestrel, 1988. Hannah resents stories of her Jewish

heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during

a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World

War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration

camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the

past.

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