NSBR: Help for a 5th grader!!

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OK, I have come to the place that I know will give me help!! You all know you are awesome and I needs some of your awesomeness!! Cause I want to be an awesome mom!!!

Ok my DD is in 5th grade and has an Independent Reading assignment (IRP). She has had to pick a different book each quarter. So this quarter she has to read a book written by an minority/ethnic author with minority/ethnic characters.

Help!!! I am coming up blank! She is 10!! I can only think of Maya Angelo and Toni Morrison and both write book that are a bit to old for a 10yr old. Unless I am wrong and I could be. My DD is advanced in her reading but I still try yo keep her book on an appropriate level. So I need some ideas. An one have any thing? It does not have to be by an african-american. It can be any ethnicity but I am coming up blank. This is due by Tuesday.


Oh, I think Color Purple would be a great book but DH thinks it is too old for her with too many parts that could not be good for a 10yr old brain. So hit me with your best shot!! PLEASE!!!!
TIA!!!
 
I know my older daughter, who is 13, was really into the whole Holocaust thing not too long ago. I would think that some of those books would fall into the ethnic author/ethnic characters area. If she can read non-fiction, I would think Diary of Anne Frank would work. I'm not sure about other ethnic areas. My girls are in bed, but I'll ask them tomorrow.
 
I think this is a fantastic book (might be a bit too high of a grade level, tho) The Ear, the Eye and the Arm. Another one by the same author with a bit lower reading level, A Girl Named Disaster. We're going to be reading this one this term for homeschool, looks really good, Red Scarf Girl. Here's another one, set in America, that we really enjoyed, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson.

HTH, I love children's lit :)

ETA: I agree w/ your dh, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou are fantastic writers, but the themes might be a bit too intense for you dd's age. If I remember correctly, The Color Purple had quite a bit of violence (including r*pe)...jmho
 
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I just went through my children's recommended book lists they have at school and found these:

Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul Choi
Iqbal by Francisco D'Adamo
Neela's Victory Song by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
A Step From Heaven by An Na
Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl (may be a bit too old for her)
Thanks To My Mother by Schoschana Rabinovici (may also be a bit for older girls)
Upon The Head of a Goat by Aranka Siegal

hope this helps!
 
I wanted to add to check your local library - they might have recommended reading lists for your chilce's grade. I found ours by accident! LOL.

Did you do a search on barnes and noble? I always go there for searching and then to my library for the book.
 
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