Multicultural Voices Book Discussion Group

This is the curriculum for a high school book club discussion group with theme "Multicultural Voices." These eight books vary widely in content, but all deal with the perspectives of young adults who are, in some way, a minority.

(Links here go to the book's Amazon.com description.)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuelos
Ten Things I Hate About Me by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
When the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before by David Yee

Discussion Group Materials

Book Annotations and Discussion Questions: HTML | PDF
Discussion Group Brochure: PDF
Discussion Group Poster: JPEG

Created by Renata Sancken as a project for LIS 404: Young Adult Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, May 2011.