Expanding Opportunities: Academic Success for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students is a helpful guide for selecting diverse reading materials. It is presented in an NCTE position paper.
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/level/gen/107640.htm

Young Adult Literature: Middle & Secondary English-Language Arts is a good place to begin to look for links to Native, Asian, Latino and African American young adult literature.
falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm

Carol Hurst's Childrens' Literature Site: Tolerance, Racism, and Prejudice, Grades 5 - 8 contains a list of books recommended by a children's librarian and web guru. The books "deal with the fears and misunderstandings that often lie just below the surface of human behavior."
www.carolhurst.com/products/booksetstol.html

Using Literature to Teach About Hate and Violence provides guidance in choosing and using literature that deals with the difficult themes of hate and violence.
forbin.qc.edu/ECP/LITERACY/special/literature&violence.html

The Children's Literature Nook offers extensive links to children's books organized by ethnic background, including Asian American, Native American, and Hispanic American literature.
www.geocities.com/heartland/estates/ 4967/childindex.html

Beyond Good Intentions: Selecting Multicultural Literature is a well-written, concise article listing criteria for choosing multicultural literature for students.
www.4children.org/news/9-97mlit.htm

Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Materials provides a checklist of criteria for choosing multicultural literature with links to other criteria sites.
www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li4lk26.htm

Booklists for Young Adults on the Web offers a wide range of multicultural links, including books about Judaism, multiracial families, and international themes.
www.seemore.mi.org/booklists/fiction.html#Multicultural