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NCTA Mini-grant Information

 

NCTA Mini-Grant Information

For information about the NCTA Mini-Grant, please see the PDF NCTA Mini-Grant Information Sheet below.

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Your NCTA seminar leader will send you the link for the NCTA Mini-Grant Request Form, which you will use to make your selections. Please review the information in the the PDF document above before submitting your Mini-Grant request.  If you have any questions about the Mini-Grant process, please ask your seminar leader or email Pitt NCTA Assistant Director Patrick Hughes at hughespw@pitt.edu

 

NCTA Mini-Grant Pre-Approved Options

The following "Pre-Approved Sets" are for NCTA teachers who are preparing their Mini-Grant Order forms. NCTA teachers have the option of picking one of these sets, or to customize their own set (check with your seminar leader for more information on mini-grants). All of the materials listed below appear in our East Asia Gateway for Linking Educators (EAGLE), which may contain teacher-written reviews as to the utility of the materials.

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SET A: FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL

  • Book/Korea: Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee [$9.99] Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Date: 2016 ISBN: 1419721321.

Winner of the 2016 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/High School Literature.

 

  • Book/Korea: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada (2020 Freeman Book Award of Note) [$11.79]  Publisher: Iron Circus Comics, Date 2020, ISBN: 194582042X

 

  • Book/Taiwan: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan [currently: $9.99] Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Date: 2019 (paperback) ISBN: 0316464015

​Winner of the 2018 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/High School Literature

Culture Notes and Curriculum Connections available at: https://www.nctasia.org/award/the-astonishing-color-of-after/

 

  • Book/China:When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 by Louise Levathes [currently: $15.36] Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997 (Paperback) ISBN: 0195112075

 

  • Book/Japan: Go: A Coming of Age Novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro [currently: $10.99] Publisher: Amazon Crossing  Date: 2018 (paperback) ISBN-10: 1542046181. 

Winner of the 2018 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/High School Literature.

[Resources for use with this book are located on our website: https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/ncta/teaching-go-book-discussion-and-workshop]

 

  • Book/China:  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ($11.89) Publisher: Anchor Books Date: 2002 ISBN-10: 0385722206​

 

  • DVD/Japan: Day of the Western Sunrise by Daliboka Films and Pittsburgh director Keith Remink. Includes educational toolkit written by NCTA alums. [$40.00] Date: 2019 Website: http://daliborkafilms.com

 

SET B: FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL

 

  • Book/Japan: Grenade by Alan Gratz. [$9.97]  Publisher: Scholastic Press  Date: 2019  ISBN-10: 1407194178 Winner of 2018 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/Middle School Literature.

 

  • Book/Japan: A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata ($11.99)  Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books; Illustrated Edition  Date: 2019  ISBN-10: 1481446649  Winner of the 2019 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/Middle School Literature

 

  • Book/China: The Emperor’s Riddle by Kat Zhang (2017 Freeman Book Award of Note [$7.99] Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Aladdin, Date: 2018 edition, ISBN-10: 148147863X

 

  • Book/China: Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan [$11.89]  Publisher: Candlewick, Date: 2017, ISBN: 0763688169

 

  • Book/Korea:When My Name was Keoko  by Linda Sue Park [currently: $6.99]  Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers  Date: 2012  ISBN-10: 0547722397

 

  • Book/Korea: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park [$7.99] Publisher: Clarion Books, reprint 2011, Date: 2011, ISBN-10: 0547534264

 

  • Book/China: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang ($7.49)  Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint Edition  Date: 2018  ISBN-10: 9780064462082

 

  • Book/Korea: Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee (2020 Freeman Book Award Winner) [$8.99] Publisher: Holiday House, Date: 2022 edition; originally 2020, ISBN-10: 0823444201

 

  • Book/Vietnam: Too Young to Escape by Van Ho and Marsha Skrypuch (2018 Freeman Book Award Honorable Mention) [$16.99 used] Publisher: Pajama Press  Date: 2018 ISBN-10: 1772780669

 

SET C: FOR ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

 

  • Book/China: The Little White Duck: A Childhood in China by Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martinez  Publisher: Graphic Universe; Illustrated Edition  Date: 2012 ISBN-10: 0761381155

 

  • Book/Inner Mongolia: The Moose of Ewenki by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane [currently: $19.95] Publisher: Greystone Books  Date: 2019  ISBN-10: 1771645385  Honorable Mention for the 2019 Freeman Book Award for Children's Literature

 

 

  • Book/Korea: The Turtle Ship by Helena Ku Rhee (2018 Freeman Book Award Honorable Mention) [$18.95] Publisher: Shen Books & Supplies, Date: 2018, ISBN-10: 1885008902

 

  • Book/Korea: When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee [currently: $12.29]  Publisher: Plough Publishing House  Date: 2019  ISBN-10: 0874869722  Honorable Mention for the 2019 Freeman Book Award for Children's Literature