Library & Information Science, Course 262: Resources for Young Adults.

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1. Asian & Pacific Island American History & Literature for K-12 Teacher - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asia.htm - Includes: Asian American Literature for YAs and individual bibliographies of Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans Korean-Americans and Hmong-Americans.

2. Asian-American Literature: History, Classroom Use, Bibliography & WWW Resources compiled by Brenda Hoffman - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asialit.htm A different bibliography with booktalk about Amy Tan, book reviews of Laurence Yep,and other Asian American Young Adult Fiction writers.

3. Clearinghouse for Multicultural Bilingual Education - http://www.weber.edu/mbe/Htmls/MBE-Books-Inter- Asian.html Lists Publishers dealing in Asian American books.

4. At Home with Multicultural Adolescent Literature - http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall95/Ericson.html List of Hispanic American, African American, Asian American, Native American literature graded for middle school and above.

5. Asian American Videography - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AsianAmvid.html From the Media Resources Center in Moffit Library UC Berkeley. List of documentary, links to movies about Asian American race and ethnicity, and China, Japan, Korean & Pacific Islands, South and East Asian Cinema. You can search the distributors list as well.

4. AskAsia Instructional Resources for Educators - http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm Resources for teachers in the classroom including videos, readings, a virtual gallery, resource centers, recommended resources form Columbia University's East Asian Curriculum Project, and school to school communications.

5. National Asian American Telecommunications Association - http://www.naatanet.org/ Distributors and supporters of Asian American stories in film, video and new media.

6. AACP Asian American Curriculum Projects, Inc - http://www.best.com/~aacp/ Book Distributor in San Mateo that has book lists and Asian Pacific Heritage Month resources.

7. Multicultural Book Review Homepage - http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html Reviews of multicultural books, mostly for middle school and high school. Only grade A/B books.

8. Seattle Contemporary Review of Asian American Literature - http://www.scraal.com/childrensbooks.htmlShows the covers of books in color and a short review by suggested age and genre. Each book link takes you to Amazon.com to buy the book.

Individual Authors:

 Learning about authors and illustratrors pages http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/author.html Extensive list (600+) of authors and illustrators compiled by Kate Vandergrift.

Examples:

Laurence Yep - From Kate Vandergrift's extensive site. - http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/yep.html Large site on this author including bibliography, reviews and awards.

Jane Yolen - From Penguin websitehttp://www.penguinputnam.com/catalog/yreader/authors/294_biography.htmlBiography, list of books

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