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Fatima's Great Outdoors
Ambreen Tariq Format: Hardcover
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Fatima Khazi is excited for the weekend. Her family is headed to a local state park for their first camping trip! The school week might not have gone as planned, but outdoors, Fatima can achieve anything. She sets up a tent with her father, builds a fire with her mother, and survives an eight-legged... |
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Nana Akua Goes to School
Tricia Elam Walker - Schwartz & Wade Format: Hardcover
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In this moving story that celebrates cultural diversity, a shy girl brings her West African grandmother--whose face bears traditional tribal markings--to meet her classmates.It is Grandparents Day at Zura's elementary school, and the students are excited to introduce their grandparents... |
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Thunder Boy Jr.
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full... |
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I Am Every Good Thing
Derrick Barnes - Nancy Paulsen Books Format: Hardcover
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An upbeat, empowering, important picture book from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh CutI ama nonstop ball of energy.Powerful and full of light.I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader.The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything... |
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Cannonball
Sacha Cotter - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Format: Hardcover
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He's ready to make a splash!I'm ready to pull off the perfect cannonball, but everyone has advice."You need more weight""Bigger shorts!""More muscles!""BIGGER SHORTS!"All it really takes is listening to your own voice and finding the courage... |
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Home at Last
Vera B Williams - Greenwillow Books Format: Print book
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A poignant, timely, and universal picture book about fear, adoption, family, and the joy of fatherhood, written by beloved and award-winning author Vera B. Williams and illustrated by the author in collaboration with two-time Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka.After Lester is adopted by Daddy... |
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The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story
Tina Cho - Kokila Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking picture book featuring a Korean girl and her haenyeo (free diving) grandmother about intergenerational bonds, finding courage in the face of fear, and connecting with our natural world.Dayeon wants to be a haenyeo just like Grandma. The haenyeo dive off the coast of Jeju... |
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It's Okay to Be Different
Todd Parr - Spotlight Format: Library Binding
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This title will inspire kids to celebrate their individuality through acceptance of others and self-confidence. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO. |
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The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson - Nancy Paulsen Books Format: Hardcover
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's LiteratureNational Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpr Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lpez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even... |
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Drawn Together
Minh Lê - Disney-Hyperion Format: Hardcover
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When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustration, and silence. But as they sit down to draw together, something magical happens-with a shared love of art and storytelling, the two form a bond that goes beyond words.With spare, direct... |
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Birdsong
Julie Flett - Greystone Kids Format: Hardcover
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A tender, luminous portrait of art, nature, and connecting across generations. When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate the changing... |
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Our Favorite Day of the Year
A. E. Ali - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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A heartwarming picture book following a group of boys from different backgrounds throughout the school year as they become the best of friends.Musa's feeling nervous about his first day of school. He's not used to being away from home and he doesn't know any of the other kids... |
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The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
Ibtihaj Muhammad - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab--by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad. With her new backpack and light-up shoes, Faizah knows the first day of school is going to be special. It's... |
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Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown
Angnakuluk Friesen - Groundwood Books Format: Hardcover
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The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on this story about what it's like to grow... |
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We Are Water Protectors
Carole Lindstrom - Roaring Brook Press Format: Hardcover
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Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, Carole Lindstrom's bold and lyrical picture book We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguarding the Earth's water from harm and corruption.Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects... |
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The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden
Heather Smith - Orca Book Publishers Format: Hardcover
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When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project - building a phone booth in his garden. At first... |
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At the Mountain's Base
Traci Sorell - Kokila Format: Hardcover
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A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots.At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family... |
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Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship
JESSICA KENSKY - Candlewick Format: Hardcover
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Based on a real-life partnership, the heartening story of the love and teamwork between a girl and her service dog will illuminate and inspire.Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog - it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being... |
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The Little Mermaid
Jerry Pinkney - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's classic, Caldecott medalist and bestselling artist Jerry Pinkney conjures a poignant friendship story and an epic tale of redemption -- the definitive new version for our time. Melody, the littlest sea princess, is not content... |
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
Meg Medina - Candlewick Format: Hardcover
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A 2016 Pura Belpr Author Award Honor BookA 2016 Pura Belpr Illustrator Award Honor Book When a little girl's far-away grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend language in a tender story written by acclaimed author Meg Medina.Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with... |
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The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
Khalil, Aya - TILBURY HOUSE PUBL
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Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich.... |
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Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
Parker Curry - Aladdin Format: Hardcover
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A visit to Washington, DC's National Portrait Gallery forever alters Parker Curry's young life when she views First Lady's Michelle Obama's portrait.When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald's transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery,... |
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
Franck Prévot - Charlesbridge; Nov edition Format: Hardcover
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Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her efforts to lead women in a nonviolent struggle to bring peace and democracy to Africa through its reforestation. Her organization planted over thirty million trees in thirty years. This beautiful picture book tells the story... |
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Raven, Rabbit, Deer
Sue Farrell Holler - Pajama Press Format: Hardcover
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The boy shows Grandpa how to jump in the snow and how to make it splash into the creek. Grandpa shows the boy rabbit tracks and deer hiding among the trees. They greet their animal neighbors by name: Raven, Rabbit, Deer, Sparrow. Back home, the little boy sets the table with cookies while... |
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Julin at the Wedding
Jessica Love - Candlewick Format: Hardcover
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The star of Julin Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return - and finds a new friend - at a wedding to be remembered. Julin and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julin is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend... |
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Birrarung Wilam: A Story from Aboriginal Australia
Aunty Joy Murphy - Candlewick Format: Hardcover
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As ngua rises, Bunjil soars over mountain ash, flying higher and higher as the wind warms. Below, Birrarung begins its long winding path down to palem warreen. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people Aunty Joy Murphy join to tell the Indigenous and geographical... |
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Deep in the Sahara
Kelly Cunnane - Schwartz & Wade Books Format: Hardcover
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"Poetic language, attractive illustrations and a positive message about Islam, without any didacticism: a wonderful combination," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.Lalla lives in the Muslim country of Mauritania, and more than anything, she wants to wear a malafa,... |
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
Miranda Paul - Millbrook Pr Format: Hardcover
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When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to the central African nation of Cameroon. Authors Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul share Farmer Tantoh's inspiring... |
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Kevin Noble Maillard - Roaring Brook Press Format: Hardcover
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Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.Fry bread is food.It is warm and delicious,... |
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Brush of the Gods
Lenore Look - Schwartz & Wade Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous picture book biography, according to Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, is a cheerful introduction not only to Wu Daozi, but to the power of inspiration. Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi 689-758, known as Chinas greatest painter... |
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Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt
Pat McKissack - Random House Format: Hardcover
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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, grandmother and granddaughter, aunt and niece, friend and friend. For a hundred years, generations of women from Gee's Bend have quilted together, sharing stories, trading recipes, singing hymns - all the while stitchin' and pullin' thread through cloth.... |
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Red Shoes
Karen English - Scholastic Inc. Format: Hardcover
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Red shoes glowing-Perched on a pedestal in the shop windowas if on a throne."I want those, Nana," Malika says, as they pass the shop."We'll see," Nana says with a wink. "Looks like you could use a new pair.Malika is delighted when Nana surprises her with a beautiful... |
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