Title: Black Is Brown Is Tan
Author: Adoff, Arnold
Publisher: HarperCollins (2002)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: The father is white; the mother is African American. A matter-of-fact description of family life is told in lyrical prose.

Title: Under Our Skin: Kids Talk About Race
Author: Birdseye, Debbie Holsclaw and Tom Birdseye
Publisher: Holiday House (1997)
Call Number: j305.8009 B532u
Format:

Title: Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band
Author: Carter, Don
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (2002)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: A young boy imagines how his grandfather is encountering all the jazz greats up in heaven.

Title: Uptown
Author: Collier, Bryan
Publisher: Holt (2000)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: Harlem, as seen through the eyes of a young boy, is described in snippets of prose.

Title: The Patchwork Quilt
Author: Flournoy, Valerie
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers (1985)
Call Number: j
Format:
Notes: Appreciation for extended family is conveyed through this story of a grandmother's quilt.

Title: Plain City
Author: Hamilton, Virginia
Publisher: Scholastic (1993)
Call Number: j
Format:

Title: The Friday Nights of Nana
Author: Hest, Amy
Publisher: Candlewick Press (2001)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: A large extended family gathers for a Sabbath meal at grandma's house.

Title: Amazing Grace
Author: Hoffman, Mary
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers (1991)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: When Grace is told that she cannot be Peter Pan because "he isn't black," she sets out to win the audition. She proves that with determination, you can overcome the odds.

Title: Yoshiko and the Foreigner
Author: Little, Mimi Otey
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1996)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: Two cultures come together when Flem Otey, an American soldier, meets Yoshiko Sasagawa, a young Japanese woman. Initial resistance from her family gives way to acceptance. The two finally marry.

Title: Family
Author: Monk, Isabell
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (2001)
Call Number: jE
Format:
Notes: In this companion book to Hope, Aunt Poogee hosts a large family gathering.