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1. Gaining Cultural Familiarity: Understanding Differences and Similarities

Students will be able to recognize differences and similarities between their own lives and the lives of other children living in a different country. Students will also be able to value the differences that may seem strange to them by allowing themselves to walk in the shoes of other children, and to think about similarities as well as differences.

2. Explorers, Traders & Immigrants: Tracking the Cultural and Social Effects of the Global Commodity Trade

A primary-source document based curriculum unit for grades 9-12

3. Political Database of the Americas

Provides contemporary political and institutional information about the 35 countries of the Western Hemisphere.

4. Latin American & Caribbean Film and Video Collection

A List of films from 2005-2006

5. Africa Enslaved: Comparative Slave Systems Outside the United States

A Curriculum Unit for grades 9-12

6. Before We Were Free

By Julia Alvarez (Knopf, 2002)

7. The Little Painter of Sabana Grande

By Patricia Maloney Markun, illustrated by Robert Casilla (Simon & Schuster, 1993)

8. Hue Boy

By Rita Phillips Mitchell, illustrated by Caroline Binch (Dial Books for Young Readers, 1993)

9. For the Life of Leatitia

By Merle Hodge (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993)

10. Vejigante Masquerader

By Lulu Delacre (Scholastic Paperbacks, 1993)

11. Where the Flame Trees Bloom

By Alma Flor Ada, illustrated by Antonio Martorell (Atheneum, 1994)

12. Tukama Tootles the Flute: A Tale from the Antilles

Retold by Phillis Gershator, paintings by Synthia Saint James (Orchard Books, 1994)

13. The Red Comb

By Fernando Pico, illustrated by Maria Antonia Ordonez (BridgeWater Books, 1994)

14. Rata, Pata, Scata, Fata: A Caribbean Story

By Phyllis Gershator, illustrated by Holly Meade (Little, Brown and Company, 1994)

15. Over Here It's Different: Carolina's Story

By Mildred Leinweber Dawson, photographs by George Ancona (Macmillan Publishing, 1993)

16. My Two Worlds

By Ginger Gordon, photographs by Martha Cooper (Clarion Books, 1993)

17. Not A Copper Penny in Me House: Poems from the Caribbean

By Monica Gunning, illustrated by Frane Lessac (Boyds Mill Press, 1993)

18. Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico

Retold by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by Ernesto Ramos Nieves (Harper Collins, 1994)

19. I Have a News

Collected by Walter Jekyll, rhymes chosen by Neil Philip, illustrated by Jacqueline Mair (William Morrow and Company, 1994)

20. Feliz Nochebuena, Feliz Navidad

By Maricel E. Presilla, pictures by Ismael Espinosa Ferrer (Henry Holt and Company, 1994)

21. Caribbean Alphabet

By Frane Lessac (William Morrow and Company, 1994)

22. The Tangerine Tree

By Regina Hanson, illustrated by Harvey Stevenson (Clarion, 1995)

23. The Song of El Coqui and Other Tales of Puerto Rico

By Nicholasa Mohr and Antonio Martorell (Viking, 1995)

24. Rabbit Wishes

By Linda Shute (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1995)

25. The Magic Feather: A Jamaican Legend

Retold by Lisa Rojany, illustrated by Philip Kuznicki (Troll Associates, 1995)

26. Juan Bobo and the Horse of Seven Colors: A Puerto Rican Legend

Retold by Jan Mike, illustrated by Charles Reasoner (Troll Associates, 1995)

27. Isla / La Isla

By Arthur Dorros, illustrated by Elisa Kleven (Dutton Children's Books, 1995)

28. The Faithful Friend

By Robert D. San Souci, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Simon and Schuster, 1995)

29. A Caribbean Dozen: Poems From Caribbean Poets

Edited by John Agard and Grace Nichols, illustrated by Cathie Felstead (Candlewick Press, 1994)

30. Tonight by Sea

By Frances Temple (Orchard Books, 1995)

31. Toussaint L'Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti's Freedom

By Walter Dean Myers, paintings by Jacob Lawrence (Simon and Schuster, 1996)

32. Sweet, Sweet Fig Banana

By Phillis Gershator, illustrated by Fritz Millevoix (Albert Whitman, 1996)

33. Running the Road to ABC

By Denizé Lauture, illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Simon and Schuster, 1996)

34. Old Letivia and the Mountain of Sorrows

By Nicholasa Mohr, illustrated by Rudy Gutiérrez (Viking, 1996)

35. The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico

By Nina Jaffe, illustrated by Enrique O. Sánchez (Simon and Schuster, 1996)

36. Darkfright

By Holly Young Huth, illustrated by Jenny Stow (Atheneum, 1996)

37. A Caribbean Counting Book

Compiled by Faustin Charles, illustrated by Roberta Arenson (Houghton Mifflin, 1996)

38. The Big Idea

By Ellen Schecter, illustrated by Bob Dorsey (Hyperion, 1996)

39. Where Fireflies Dance / Ahi Donde Bailan las Luciernagas

By Lucha Corpi, illustrated by Mira Reisberg (Children's Book Press, 1997)

40. A Little Salmon for Witness: A Story from Trinidad

By Vashanti Rahaman, illustrated by Sandra Speidel (Lodestar, 1997)

41. Grannie Jus' Come

By Ana Sisnett, illustrated by Karen Lusebrink (Children's Book Press, 1997)

42. Celebrate in Central America

By Joe Viesti and Diane Hall, photographs by Joe Viesti (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1997)

43. Fruits: A Caribbean Counting Poem

By Valerie Bloom, Illustrated by David Axtell (Henry Holt, 1997)

44. The Face at the Window

By Regina Hanson, illustrated by Linda Saport (Clarion, 1997)

45. Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba

By Alma Flor Ada (Atheneum, 1998)

46. Greetings, Sun

By Phillis and David Gershator, illustrated by Synthia Saint James (DK Ink, 1998)

47. Doctor Bird: Three Lookin' Up Tales from Jamaica

By Gerald Hausman and Ashley Wolff (Philomel, 1998)

48. The Crab Man / El Hombre de los Cangrejos

By Patricia E. Van West, illustrated by Cedric Lucas (Turtle Books, 1998)

49. Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella

By Robert D. San Souci, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Simon and Schuster, 1998)

50. Island in the Sun

By Harry Belafonte and Lord Burgess, illustrated by Alex Ayliffe (Dial, 1999)