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21FA-LS-5653 - Asian Pacific American Literature: The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

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"The Year of the Dog was the year that I met Melody and she became my best friend. It was the year I had won a prize, discovered my talent, and got rich. It was the year I had found myself and decided I was going to make books when I grew up.  The Year of the Dog had been a great year." 

21FA-LS-5653 - Asian Pacific American Literature: A Different Pond by Bao Phi

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  " I look at the trees as we walk back to the car. I wonder what the trees look like at that other pond, in the country my dad comes from."

21FA-LS-5653 - Asian Pacific American Literature: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say

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"The funny thing is, the moment I am in one country, I am homesick for the other."

21FA-LS-5653 - Native American Literature: House of Purple Cedar by Tim Tingle

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"Forgiveness slays the serpent. It withers in the Light."

21FA-LS-5653 - Native American Literature: Peacemaker by Joseph Bruchac

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"He could almost hear that song in his mind already, a song as sweet as the singing of the birds or the voice of the warm wind from the summer land melting away the snow of winter."

21FA-LS-5653 - Native American Literature: Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

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"Fry Bread is YOU"