Some of my favorites: Gorion del Metro (I think English version is Subway Sparrow? It's tri-lingual in either language) by Leyla Torres Smoky Night, and Going Home - both by Eve Bunting and David Diaz Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, and Tar Beach - both by Faith Ringgold The Story of Colors - by Subcomandante Marcos Family Pictures - by Carmen Lomas Garza the Big Box - by Toni Morrison and Giselle Potter i live in music - by Ntozake Shange and Romare Bearden The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle - by Jewel Grutman and Gay Matthaei and Adam Cvijanovic Heather has two mommies - Leslea Newman and Diane Souza and then there's comic books: American Born Chinese - by Gene Luen Yang Castle Waiting - by Linda Medley Satchel Paige: Striking out Jim Crow - by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso and for young adults, Sherman Alexie's great youth lit: True Diary of a Part-time Indian, and Flight