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I Know Here
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Laurel Croza |
The little girl in this story lives with her family in a trailer in northeastern Saskatchewan, where her father is building a dam. She knows everything about the place she lives -- her road, her scho… |
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Mom, it's my first day of kindergarten!
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Hyewon Yum |
A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at "the big kids' school," must calm his very worried mother. |
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Rain!
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Linda Ashman |
As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear. |
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A Piece of Home
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Jeri Hanel Watts |
When Hee Jun’s family moves from Korea to West Virginia, he struggles to adjust to his new home. His eyes are not big and round like his classmates’, and he can’t understand anything the teacher says… |
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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold |
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen… |
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Jamaica's Find
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Juanita Havill,Teresa Mlawer,Anne Sibley O'Brien |
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home. |
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Thank you, Omu!
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Oge Mora |
When the aroma of Omu's homemade stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until all is gone except for her generous spirit. Author-illustrator Oge Mora brings to life a hear… |
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Poet
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Don Tate |
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time, although not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to… |
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Sonya's chickens
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Phoebe Wahl |
Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chick… |
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Bird
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Zetta Elliott,Shadra Strickland |
Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides … |
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Yesterday I had the blues
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Jeron Ashford Frame |
A young boy ponders a variety of emotions and how different members of his family experience them, from his own blues to his father's grays and his grandmother's yellows. |
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My Name is Yoon
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Helen Recorvits |
Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country. |
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Anna's special present
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Yoriko Tsutsui |
Anna hates it when her little sister Katy begs to play with her favorite doll; but, when Katy is sick in the hospital, Anna knows just the right gift to cheer her. |
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Elizabeti's Doll
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Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen,Esther Sarfatti |
When a young Tanzanian girl gets a new baby brother, she finds a rock, which she names Eva, and makes it her baby doll. |
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Ruby's Wish
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Shirin Yim Bridges |
In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins. |
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Uptown
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Bryan Collier |
A tour of the sights of Harlem, including the Metro-North Train, brownstones, shopping on 125th Street, a barber shop, summer basketball, the Boy's Choir, and sunset over the Harlem River |
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Silly chicken
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Rukhsana Khan |
In Pakistan, Rani believes that her mother loves their pet chicken Bibi more than she cares for her, until the day that a fluffy chick appears and steals Rani's own affections. |
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