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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
I Know Here I Know Here 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… OL15634192W
Mom, it's my first day of kindergarten! Mom, it's my first day of kindergarten! 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. OL15980266W
Rain! Rain! 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. OL16342443W
A Piece of Home A Piece of Home 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… OL17336079W
Tar Beach Tar Beach 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… OL1859174W
Jamaica's Find Jamaica's Find Juanita Havill,Teresa Mlawer,Anne Sibley O'Brien A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home. OL1925114W
Thank you, Omu! Thank you, Omu! 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… OL19662793W
Poet Poet 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… OL20008408W
Sonya's chickens Sonya's chickens 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… OL20015055W
Bird Bird 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 … OL20198554W
Yesterday I had the blues Yesterday I had the blues 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. OL2454502W
My Name is Yoon My Name is Yoon 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. OL2715522W
Anna's special present Anna's special present 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. OL4369614W
Elizabeti's Doll Elizabeti's Doll 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. OL59235W
Ruby's Wish Ruby's Wish 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. OL6209211W
Uptown Uptown 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 OL8445346W
Silly chicken Silly chicken 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. OL859253W