Secondary+Student+Book+Report

Read a student book or novel/chapter book that secondary students read and 1) write a summary of the book, including diversity topics, 2) your “critique”, 3) specific correlations to class, and 4) how can this book be used specifically? Some book samples include: Alarcón, A. (2004). //The border patrol ate my dust//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Espinoza, C. (2007). //Under the Texas sun//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Estevis, A. (2003). //Down garrapata road//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Hernandez, J. A. Y. (1997). //White bread competition//.Houston,TX: Piñata Books.

Hernandez, L. (2007). //Migrations and other stories//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Ramón, P. (1991). //Diary of an undocumented immigrant//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Sanmiguel, R. (2008). //Under the bridge stories from the border//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Treviño, J. S. (1995). //The fabulous sinkhole and other stories//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press. Viaña, E. G. (2007). //Dante’s ballad//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Villaseñor, V. (1991). //Macho!// Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Viramontes, H. M. (1995). //The moths and other stories//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Others Include: Carter, F. (2004). The education of Little Tree. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, NM.

Cisneros, S. (1991). //The house on Mango Street//. New York: Vintage Contemporaries.

Mikaelsen, B. (1996//). Countdown//. New York: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children.

Mortenson, G., & Relin, D. O. (2009). //Three cups of tea//. New York: Puffin.

Robinet, H. G. (2000). //Walking to the bus-rider blues//. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers. (Morgan)

Soto, G. (1999). //Buried Onions//. New York: NY: Harper Collins.

Hall, R., Moore, D., & Vincent, L. (2006). //Same kind of different as me//. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc.

Miller, S. (2007). //Until it’s gone//. Highlands, TX: aha! Process.

Sanmiguel, R. (2008). //Under the bridge: Stories from the border//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press

Volponi, Paul. (2005). //Black and White//. Strand, London: Penguin Books Ltd.

Kunjufu, J. (1997). //To be popular or smart the blacak peer group//. Sauk Village Il, African American Images

De La Pena, Matt. (2008). //Mexican whiteboy//. New York: Delacorte Press.

Gay, K. (2003). It happened to me: //Cultural diversity conflicts and challenges//. Lanham, MD:Scarecrow Press, Inc.

Ramón, P. (1991). //Diary of an undocumented immigrant//. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press.

Hall, R., Moore, D., & Vincent, L. (2006). //Same kind of different as me//. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc

Viramontes, H.M. (1995). //The moths and other stories//. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press.

Cisneros, S. (1991). //The house on Mango Street//. New York: Vintage Contemporaries.

Curtis, C.P. (1995). //The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963//. New York, NY: Random House.

The following attachment is the rubric for the secondary book report.