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[IL 4-8] 33 pages Bowers, Matt (Matthew David) Two Lions 2020 E 21.46 139346 Individual Sports At The Paralympics. An introduction to Alexander, Lori paralympic athletics, including cycling, archery, triathlon events, 050879 Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann Created The descriptions of each men’s and women’s individual sports, rules, Paralympic Games. The inspiring human story behind the creation and how they differ from their Olympic counterparts. il. [IL 6-9] 32 of the Paralympics. il. Drummond, Allan. [IL 7-10] 114 pages pages Amicus 2020 796 (AR) 24.24 Houghton 2020 796 21.46 139890 Team Sports At The Paralympics. An introduction to Alloway, Tracy Packiam Paralympic team sports, including football, sitting volleyball, 054426 Perfect Project: A Book About Autism. When Billy’s class has goalball events, descriptions of the men’s and women’s team to do a project on trains, it’s up to Billy to help his group get the sports, rules, and how they differ from their Olympic counterparts. job done. il. Sanfelippo, Ana. [IL 5-7] 23 pages QEB 2019 E il. [IL 6-9] 32 pages Amicus 2020 796 (AR) 24.94 20.74 Bowling, Dusti 054491 Playground Problem: A Book About Anxiety. Ruby notices 140448 Aven Green Sleuthing Machine. Third-grader Aven Green that Joey is sad and doesn’t seem to have a friend, so she solves mysteries at her school despite being born without arms. investigates to see if he’s okay and he ends up encouraging her in [IL 6-9] 128 pages Sterling 2020 Fic 17.94 return. il. [IL 5-7] 23 pages QEB 2019 E (AR) 20.74 Brian, Rachel Alvarez, Julia 150462 Worry (Less) Book: Feel Strong, Find Calm, And Tame Your 055142 Already A Butterfly: A Meditation Story. A too busy butterfly Anxiety! 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An introduction to different characters 096332 When I Draw A Panda. When a girl draws a panda, it comes who are blind, including how blindness may affect their actions, to life and helps her embrace her own creativity and unique way how we can be good friends to people who are blind, and more. il. of seeing the world. il. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Simon 2020 E 21.46 [IL 4-7] 24 pages Bullfrog Books 2020 305 (AR) 21.44 Battersby, Katherine 206702 My Friend Is Deaf. An introduction to different characters 096427 Perfect Pigeons. A colorful flock of pigeons pride who are deaf, including how deafness may affect their actions, themselves on their perfect unity. All except one: a bespectacled how we can be good friends to people who are deaf, and more. il. pigeon who is happiest doing its own thing. il. [IL 4-8] 40 pages [IL 4-7] 24 pages Bullfrog Books 2020 305 (AR) 21.44 McElderry 2020 E 21.46 Bernstein, Ariel 115252 Scary Sleepover. When Michael invites Warren over to go “camping” in his basement, Warren doesn’t know if he’s more 2 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 206707 My Friend Uses A Wheelchair. An introduction to different that his facial expressions, more specifically his eyebrows, are characters who use wheelchairs, including how it may affect conveying emotions he does not feel, leaving Bernard to wonder their actions, how we can be good friends to people who are in if he is doomed to live a life with horrendous brows. il. Petrik, Mike. wheelchairs, and more. il. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Bullfrog Books 2020 [IL 4-8] 33 pages Abrams 2020 E 20.76 305 (AR) 21.44 Edwards, Nicola Churnin, Nancy 303729 Happy. Gently encourages children to explore their 214865 William Hoy Story: How A Deaf Baseball Player Changed emotions and discover their path to mindfulness. il. Hickey, Katie. The Game. 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[IL 3-7] 31 DiCamillo, Kate pages Random 2018 E (AR) 21.46 276754 Good Rosie! When she is taken to the dog park to play, Hunt, Lynda Mullaly Rosie doesn’t know any of the other dogs there. Will she be able to 471638 Fish In A Tree. Ally’s greatest fear is that everyone will find make new friends? In graphic novel format. il. Bliss, Harry. [IL 5-8] out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn’t 40 pages Candlewick 2018 741 (AR/RC) 20.76 know how to read. [IL 10-14] 276 pages Penguin 2015 Fic (AR/RC) Doerrfeld, Cori 20.76 282470 Rabbit Listened. When Taylor’s block castle is destroyed, John, Jory all the animals think they know just what to do, but only the 492152 First Day Critter Jitters. It’s almost the first day of school, rabbit quietly listens to how Taylor is feeling. il. [IL 3-5] 40 pages and the animals are nervous. But the animals all figure out how Dial 2018 E (AR) 21.46 to help one another through their jitters. il. Climo, Liz. [IL 4-8] 40 Duling, Kaitlyn pages Dial 2020 E 21.46 294148 My Friend Has Autism. An introduction to different Keller, Laurie characters who have autism, including how it may affect their 512104 Hello, Arnie! Arnie and his pastry pals are excited to meet actions, how we can be good friends to people who have autism, YOU. What kind of doughnut are you anyway? il. [IL 2-5] 32 pages and more. il. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Bullfrog Books 2020 618 (AR) Holt 2020 E 21.46 21.44 Eaton, Jason Carter 300928 Bad Brows. Bernard is mystified as to why everyone he encounters reacts strangely towards him, but he soon realizes 3 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Kerascoet and read Braille. Armed with the ability to express herself, Helen 514999 I Walk With Vanessa: A Story About A Simple Act Of Kindness. grew up to become a social activist. il. Eliopoulos, Chris. 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[IL 4-8] 32 pages Holt 2016 center, and form an unlikely friendship that grows stronger in the E 20.76 face of adversity. il. Santoso, Charles. [IL 4-8] 40 pages Abrams Mosca, Julia Finley 2020 E 21.46 661048 Girl Who Thought In Pictures: The Story Of Dr. Temple Llenas, Anna Grandin. Describes the life and accomplishments of the animal 581133 Color Monster: A Story About Emotions. A gentle scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities, from her exploration of feelings, starring Color Monster and a little girl. il. early life and autism diagnosis through her journey to become a [IL 4-8] 35 pages Little 2018 E (AR) 20.76 livestock expert. il. Rieley, Daniel. [IL 5-10] 40 pages Innovation Loewen, Nancy Press 2017 636-B (AR/RC) 21.46 582769 Roman And Iris: A Story About Bullying. Roman is excited Palacio, R. J. to go to summer day camp. But everything goes wrong when Iris 695453 We’re All Wonders. A picture book about Wonder’s Auggie starts to pick on him. Roman is being bullied, but he doesn’t know Pullman as a young boy. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Knopf 2017 E (AR) how to handle the situation. il. Paganelli, Elisa. [IL 5-8] 24 pages 22.16 QEB 2020 302 23.56 Parker, Danny Loh-Hagan, Virginia 700406 Parachute. Toby is afraid of heights, but when his cat gets 584138 Temple Grandin And Livestock Handling. A biography of stuck in a tree, Toby must face his fears in order to rescue him. il. the life of Temple Grandin and her contributions to the livestock Ottley, Matt. [IL 4-7] 30 pages Eerdsmans 2016 E 20.07 industry, and more. il. [IL 7-10] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2019 636-B Percival, Tom 22.14 709437 Ruby Finds A Worry. A young girl’s sense of adventure Lovell, Patty and exploration vanishes when she discovers a Worry that grows 588449 Speak Up, Molly Lou Melon. Molly Lou’s mother encouraged and grows until she learns how to get rid of it. il. [IL 3-6] 32 pages her to speak up when something is wrong, for those who can’t, Bloomsbury 2019 E (AR) 21.46 and even when it’s hard, and all of that comes into play when a Petty, Dev bully picks on a new kid at school. il. Catrow, David. [IL 4-8] 31 713136 Bear Must Go On. Rabbit, Bear, Squirrel, and Other Squirrel pages Putnam 2020 E 20.76 make big plans for a show, but they have forgotten one very 588450 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Even when the class bully important thing and only shy Bear can help. il. Todd, Brandon. [IL at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her 4-8] 34 pages Philomel 2020 E 21.46 grandmother told her and feels good about herself. il. Catrow, Pla, Sally J. David. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Putnam 2001 E (AR/RC) 21.46 720141 Benji, The Bad Day, And Me. Sammy is having a very bad Ludwig, Trudy day at school and at home until his autistic brother, Benji, finds a 589986 Invisible Boy. Brian has always felt invisible at school, way to make him feel better. il. Min, Ken. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Lee & but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes. il. Low 2018 E 21.44 Barton, Patrice. [IL 6-9] 33 pages Knopf 2013 E (AR/RC) 21.46 Polacco, Patricia 590106 Power Of One: Every Act Of Kindness Counts. When one 723305 Bully. Sixth-grade friends Lyla and Jamie, both new to child reaches out in friendship to a classmate who seems lonely, their school, stand up for each other when a clique of popular she begins a chain reaction of kindness that ripples throughout girls bullies them online. il. [IL 7-11] 47 pages Putnam 2012 Fic her school and her community. il. Curato, Mike. [IL 4-8] 36 pages (AR/RC) 21.46 Knopf 2020 E 21.46 723389 Junkyard Wonders. A teacher inspires a class of special- Luyken, Corinna needs students to invent something that could convince the 590896 Book Of Mistakes. As an artist creatively incorporates her whole school they are justifiably proud to be “Junkyard Wonders.” slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which ‘mistakes’ il. [IL 6-9] 46 pages Philomel 2010 Fic (AR/RC) 21.46 can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the 723361 Sticks And Stones. The uplifting tale of three inseparable art and artist are works-in-progress. il. [IL 4-8] 50 pages Dial 2017 friends who pursue their talents and stop at nothing to achieve E (AR/RC) 22.16 their dreams. il. [IL 4-8] 48 pages Simon 2020 E 22.16 Malia, Jen Reul, Sarah Lynne 597624 Too Sticky!: Sensory Issues With Autism. With help from her 747663 Breaking News. A little girl tries her hardest to respond family and teacher, Holly overcomes her dislike of having sticky to devastating news as compassionately and empathetically as hands to participate in a science experiment. Includes author’s possible, one small thing at a time. il. [IL 4-8] 42 pages Roaring note about living with autism and sensory issues and a recipe for Brook 2018 E (AR) 21.46 making slime. il. Lew-Vriethoff, Joanne. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Whitman Rex, Adam 2020 E 20.76 747768 Nothing Rhymes With Orange. All the fruits gather together McGhee, Holly M. and enjoy a rhyming party, but poor Orange feels left out because 624972 Come With Me. In the face of fear and anger, a little girl’s he does not rhyme with anything--until Apple invents a new parents teach her bravery and compassion. il. Lemaitre, Pascal. [IL word. il. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Chronicle 2017 E (AR/RC) 20.76 5-8] 40 pages Putnam 2017 E (AR) 21.46 Reynolds, Aaron Meltzer, Brad 748782 Nerdy Birdy. A picture book about a nerdy birdy who just 636304 I Am Helen Keller. When Helen Keller was very young, she wants to hang out with the cool birds. il. Davies, Matt. [IL 4-8] 20 got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she pages Roaring Brook 2015 E (AR) 21.46 couldn’t see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who would change her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan. With Miss Sullivan’s help, Helen learned to speak sign language 4 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Reynolds, Peter H. (Peter Hamilton) 781993 Some Kids Use Wheelchairs. Some people use wheelchairs 748658 Dot. Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art to get to and from places. What does that mean? Using simple, teacher’s encouragement leads her to change her mind. il. [IL 5-9] engaging text and full-color photos, readers learn why someone 32 pages Candlewick 2003 E (AR/RC) 19.37 would use a wheelchair and what daily life is like for someone Rille, Lauren who can’t walk. This book includes a video, which launches via a 754353 I Feel Teal. Encourages the reader to enjoy all of the colors, 4D app. il. [IL 4-6] 24 pages Capstone 2018 362 (AR) 21.93 representing feelings, that may be experienced in the course of a Schmid, Paul day. il. Sicuro, Aimee. [IL 3-7] 34 pages Beach Lane Books 2018 E 786729 Oliver And His Alligator. Nervous about the first day of 21.46 school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection. il. [IL 3-5] Robbins, Rose 34 pages Disney/Hyperion Books 2013 E (AR) 20.06 757853 Me And My Sister. A boy relates how he and his autistic Schuh, Mari C. sister are alike and different, and some of the ways in which they 790078 My Life With ADHD. Meet Annabelle! She loves to draw show their love for each other. il. [IL 3-6] 30 pages Eerdsmans 2020 and play her ukulele. She also has Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity E 20.76 Disorder (ADHD). Annabelle is real and so are her experiences. Roberts, Jillian Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture 758088 On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty. Using book for elementary students. il. Munoz, Isabel. [IL 6-9] 24 pages illustrations, full-color photographs and straightforward text, this Amicus Illustrated 2021 618-B 23.54 nonfiction picture book introduces the topics of homelessness 790079 My Life With Deafness. Meet Danton! He loves his dogs and poverty to young readers. il. Heinrichs, Jane. [IL 6-9] 32 pages and playing football. He’s also deaf. Danton is real and so are Orca 2018 362 22.84 his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative 758087 On The News: Our First Talk About Tragedy. Introduces nonfiction picture book for elementary students. il. Munoz, Isabel. young children to the realities of natural disasters, terrorism and [IL 6-9] 24 pages Amicus Illustrated 2021 362-B 23.54 other forms of tragedy. Explains what tragedy is, the feelings 790077 My Life With Down Syndrome. Meet Peter! He loves the it may create and how to manage those feelings. Emphasizes drums and gym. He also has Down Syndrome. Peter is real and so the good that can come out of tragedy, looking at how people are his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative help one another in caring, compassionate and heroic ways. il. nonfiction picture book for elementary students. il. Munoz, Isabel. Heinrichs, Jane. [IL 6-9] 32 pages Orca 2018 303 22.84 [IL 6-9] 24 pages Amicus Illustrated 2021 616-B 23.54 Salas, Laura Purdie 790076 My Life With Dyslexia. Meet Scott! He likes coding and 774599 Clover Goes To Kitty Kittygarten. A sensory-sensitive kitty playing basketball. He also has dyslexia. Scott is real and so are goes to school for the very first time. il. Nakata, Hiroe. [IL 4-8] 40 his experiences. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative pages Two Lions 2020 E 21.46 nonfiction picture book for elementary students. il. Munoz, Isabel. Saltzberg, Barney [IL 6-9] 24 pages Amicus Illustrated 2021 618-B 23.54 775008 One Of These Is Not Like The Others. Points out the Scott, Jordan differences between subjects and celebrates them. il. [IL 2-5] 39 793112 I Talk Like A River. When a child has a “bad speech day” at pages Holiday House 2020 E 22.16 school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering. il. Sanchez, Victoria M. Smith, Sydney. [IL 4-8] 40 pages Holiday House 2020 E 22.16 775618 Pilar’s Worries. Pilar has social anxiety, but when tryouts Seuss, Dr. for her favorite ballet are held she uses the coping techniques she 802655 My Many Colored Days. This rhyming story describes each has learned and her love of dance to persevere. il. Golden, Jess. [IL day in terms of a particular color which in turn is associated with 4-8] 32 pages Whitman 2018 E 20.76 specific emotions. il. Johnson, Steve. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Knopf 1996 Sanna, Francesca E (RC) 20.76 776890 Me And My Fear. When a young immigrant girl has to travel Silvestro, Annie to a new country and start a new school, she is accompanied by 819605 Butterflies On The First Day Of School. Have you ever felt her Fear who tells her to be alone and afraid. il. [IL 3-7] 34 pages butterflies in your stomach? Explores that feeling on a scary but Flying Eye Books 2018 E (AR) 21.44 exciting occasion: the first day of school. il. Chen, Dream. [IL 3-7] Sarantou, Katlin 25 pages Sterling 2019 E (AR) 20.74 777480 Stephen Hawking. A biography of English scientist Sotomayor, Sonia Stephen Hawking. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2020 836298 Just Ask: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You. A group of children 530-B (AR) 22.84 with different abilities and strengths come together to build a 777482 Stevie Wonder. A biography of hit singer and songwriter community garden. il. Lopez, Rafael. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Philomel Stevie Wonder. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2020 2019 E (AR) 21.46 782-B (AR) 22.84 Squire, Ann 777483 Tammy Duckworth. A biography of veteran and U.S. 842026 ADHD. Learn all about ADHD, from what causes it and Senator Tammy Duckworth. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Cherry how it affects people to how it is diagnosed and treated. il. [IL Lake 2019 328-B (AR) 22.84 8-10] 48 pages Children’s 2017 618 (AR) 14.75 Say, Allen Starling, Robert 781238 Almond. The New Girl at school plays the violin so 844390 Fergal And The Bad Temper. Fergal the dragon has trouble beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels controlling his temper, but after one really fiery day, his mom sad because she does not know if she herself has any talent at shows him a trick on how to cool down. il. [IL 3-6] 26 pages Imprint all--until the school play, when with the encouragement of her 2019 E 21.46 mother, her teacher, and the New Girl, she finds she has a talent Thompson, Holly for acting. il. [IL 6-8] 29 pages Scholastic 2020 E 22.16 880516 One Wave At A Time: A Story About Grief And Healing. A 781243 Silent Days, Silent Dreams. A fictional biography of James boy dealing with the loss of his father describes the many waves Castle, a deaf, autistic artist whose drawings hang in major of emotion that come with the grieving process: sad waves, mad museums throughout the world. il. [IL 7-9] 63 pages Scholastic waves, fear waves, even happy waves. As the boy and his family 2017 Fic (AR/RC) 24.26 learn to adjust to life without Dad, the waves still come, but with Schaefer, Lola M. help from friends, they learn to cope and heal. il. Crowley, Ashley. 781989 Some Kids Are Blind. Discusses what blindness is, how it [IL 4-8] 32 pages Whitman 2018 E (AR) 20.76 can be caused, what daily life is like for someone who can’t see, and more. il. [IL 4-6] 24 pages Capstone 2018 362 (AR) 21.93 781991 Some Kids Are Deaf. Discusses what deafness is, how it can be caused, what daily life is like for someone who can’t hear, and more. il. [IL 4-6] 24 pages Capstone 2018 362 (AR) 21.93 5 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Thompson, Laurie Ann Ain, Beth Levine 855989 Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story Of Emmanuel Ofosu 047491 Cure For Cold Feet: A Novel In Small Moments. Now in sixth Yeboah. The true story of a boy born in Ghana with one deformed grade, Izzy continues to face the ups and downs of everyday life in leg, who overcame adversity to become an advocate for those middle school including dances, her brother’s increasing distance, with disabilities. il. Qualls, Sean. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Schwartz & Wade and her father’s serious relationship. [IL 8-12] 212 pages Random 2015 362-B (AR/RC) 21.46 2018 Fic (AR) 20.76 Uhlberg, Myron Airgood, Ellen 897650 My Name Is Helen Keller. A biography of an inspirational 047488 Education Of Ivy Blake. 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Someone else has to take care of the skunk kit in the Watt, Melanie afternoons, Janie is having sleepovers with her new friends, and 923718 Scaredy Squirrel. Scaredy Squirrel is forced to face his fears Bat wants everything to go back to normal. He just has to make of the unknown when he suddenly finds himself out of his nut it to the night of Janie’s performance. il. Santoso, Charles. [IL 8-12] tree. il. [IL 4-8] 36 pages Kids Can 2006 E (AR/RC) 14.75 176 pages Walden Pond Press 2018 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 Willems, Mo 069886 Boy Called Bat. Bat has been a bit too busy in his autism- 949550 Pigeon Has To Go To School! The pigeon must go to school, focused classroom at school to find a real friend. And he’s got one but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a and what the teacher and other birds will think of him. il. [IL 3-5] pretty terrific pet. il. Santoso, Charles. 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Thyme Owens moves across the country Bear Press 2012 Fic (AR/RC) 16.15 with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising Bundy, Tamara cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, 171662 Pixie Pushes On. Caring for a runt lamb helps Pixie gain adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy. [IL 10-14] 300 empathy when, in the 1940s, her family moves to her grandparents’ pages Putnam 2016 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 farm and her sister Charlotte contracts polio and is sent away. [IL Connor, Leslie 10-14] 227 pages Nancy Paulsen 2020 Fic 20.76 235961 Truth As Told By Mason Buttle. Mason Buttle is the biggest, Buyea, Rob sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read 179498 Perfect Score. Told from different viewpoints, five sixth- or write. Mason’s learning disabilities are compounded by grief. graders, facing various challenges and under pressure to do well Fifteen months ago, Mason’s best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned on statewide assessment tests, agree to a plan for acing the tests. up dead in the Buttle family’s orchard. An investigation drags [IL 9-12] 358 pages Delacorte 2017 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can’t understand why Byars, Betsy Cromer Lieutenant Baird won’t believe the story Mason has told about 180000 Summer Of The Swans. A teen-age girl gains new insight that day. [IL 8-12] 326 pages Harper 2018 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother Creech, Sharon gets lost. il. CoConis, Constantinos. [IL 10-14] 142 pages Viking 249387 One Time. Imaginative, eleven-year-old Gina, her 1970 Fic (AR/RC) 22.16 mysterious new neighbor, Antonio, and their classmates are Cain, Susan inspired by an unusual young teacher to see who they are and 180881 Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths Of Introverts. The envision who they are meant to become. il. [IL 8-12] 253 pages monumental bestseller Quiet has been recast for a young Harper 2020 Fic 20.76 audience, focusing on the particular strengths of introverted kids- Crowe, Sara -at school, on the sports field, at home, etc.--who have tackled the 251504 Bone Jack. Ash Tyler hopes to make his psychologically challenges of not being extroverted and who have made a mark scarred father proud by training for his town’s Stag Chase, but in their own quiet way. il. Snider, Grant. [IL 10-14] 270 pages Dial when he meets the mysterious Bone Jack, dark energies take root 2016 155 (AR) 21.46 and the world as he knows it is upended. 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She Cervantes, Jennifer only felt comfortable when spending time with the animals 203936 Fire Keeper. Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to on her aunt’s ranch. But instead of seeing her differences as save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue limitations, Temple used them to guide her education and career his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison. [IL 8-12] 416 pages in animal science. She has become a leading advocate for the Disney/Hyperion 2019 Fic (AR) 20.76 autistic as well as for the humane treatment of animals at meat 203946 Shadow Crosser. When a few Mexica gods try to put their packing companies. il. Squier, Robert. [IL 8-12] 107 pages Penguin Maya counterparts out of commission, it’s up to Zane and some Workshop 2020 618-B 14.17 godborns-in-training to save the universe. [IL 8-12] 426 pages Disney/Hyperion 2020 Fic 20.76 7 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Di Fiore, Mariangela Gerber, Alyson 280277 Elephant Man. The tragic but inspiring real story of Joseph 375552 Braced. When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her Merrick. Disfigured in childhood by a rare disease, he toured scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace Europe with a freak show, encountering misfortune at every turn. to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will il. Hodnefjeld, Hilde. [IL 8-11] 50 pages Annick Press 2015 616-B not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able (AR) 6.50* to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her Dilloway, Margaret mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that 279505 Five Things About Ava Andrews. A shy eleven-year- she herself had as a teenager. [IL 8-12] 287 pages Scholastic 2017 old learns to manage her anxiety through improv classes and Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 discovers her activist voice. [IL 8-12] 301 pages Harper 2020 Fic 375556 Focused. Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, 20.76 follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on Title Entry the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever 491244 (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to About Mental Health. An anthology of essays and illustrations that notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her illuminate mental health topics in a straightforward way. [IL 12- to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the 16] 225 pages Algonquin Young Readers 2018 616 20.74 hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills) really understand her she is determined to learn how to focus. [IL 290516 Out Of My Mind. 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[IL 8-12] 239 pages Pajama 2017 Fic (AR/RC) (AR/RC) 20.76 20.74 Foxlee, Karen Green, Tim 349576 Lenny’s Book Of Everything. In 1970s Ohio, Lenny and her 395830 Left Out. A standalone football novel that explores one younger brother, Davey, who suffers from a rare form of gigantism, disabled boy’s journey to prove that he deserves to be on the field cope with his declining health by poring over each installment of and not warming the bench. [IL 8-12] 341 pages Harper 2016 Fic Burrell’s Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia Set. [IL 8-12] 314 pages (AR/RC) 20.76 Knopf 2019 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 Griffin, Paul Frith, Margaret 402118 When Friendship Followed Me Home. Seventh-grader Ben, 359459 Who Was Louis Braille? Examines the life and times of always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who the nineteenth-century Frenchman who developed the system is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive of raised dots by which blind people read and write. il. 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But being a girl is not so easy when you look miles away. But the men at Stoke Mandeville weren’t your typical like a boy. Especially when you’re in the eighth-grade. Norbert athletes. They were paralyzed World War II veterans. The games at Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just Stoke Mandeville were so successful that they would eventually moved from the New Jersey town he’s called home for the past evolve into the Paralympics. il. Thomson, Andrew. [IL 8-12] 106 thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he pages Penguin Workshop 2020 796 13.87 is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets Dunkin Dorfman, and their lives forever change. [IL 12-16] 340 pages Delacorte 2016 Fic 8 (AR/RC) 6.50* *Overstock special while supply lasts. Hoge, Robert Iris’s plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with 455038 Ugly. Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a other whales. 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A. at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly 460896 BenBee And The Teacher Griefer: The Kids Under The Stairs. going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has A funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bennet and three not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe classmates who get stuck in a summer school class. [IL 8-12] 344 the dog can get adopted into her forever home, and just maybe pages Chronicle 2020 Fic 21.46 Lila can help Hadley deal with her own problems. [IL 8-12] 245 461207 House Arrest. Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest pages Scholastic 2020 Fic (AR) 20.76 after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a King, A. S. (Amy Sarig) journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations. 518995 Year We Fell From Space. 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He’s sick of going to physical therapy, where he isn’t making wants to be normal but her panic attacks and other episodes any progress. He’s tired of not having control over his own body. cause her to isolate herself until, in group therapy, she meets And he misses playing baseball--but not as much as he misses talkative and outgoing Erin, her first friend. [IL 8-12] 265 pages his dad, who died in the car accident that paralyzed Noah. Noah Simon 2020 Fic 21.46 is scared he’ll never feel like his old self again. He doesn’t want LeZotte, Ann Clare people to think of him as different for the rest of his life. With the 571212 Show Me A Sign. It is 1805, and Mary Lambert has always help of family and friends, he’ll have to throw off the mask he’s felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha’s been hiding behind and face the fears that have kept him on the Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sidelines if he ever wants to move forward. 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[IL 4-8] 31 7-11] 146 pages Houghton 2012 Fic (AR/RC) 6.50* pages Children’s Book Press 2011 E (RC) 22.14 209661 Year Of The Garden. Follows perceptive, astute Anna as Brown, Tameka Fryer she strives to grow a perfect garden -- only to realize that the 158068 Brown Baby Lullaby. An illustrated lullaby featuring a busy, garden she grows with her new friend is more than good enough, independent, beloved brown baby being prepared for bedtime. il. weeds and all. il. Barton, Patrice. [IL 6-9] 117 pages Houghton Ford, AG. [IL 2-6] 32 pages Farrar 2020 811-E 20.76 2017 Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 3 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 209659 Year Of The Three Sisters. Twelve-year-old Anna’s friend Cousins, Lucy Andee spearheads a campaign to bring Fan from China to 245978 Maisy’s Chinese New Year. Join Maisy and friends in a joyful Cincinnati on a year-long cultural exchange, but before Fan even celebration of Chinese New Year. il. [IL 3-7] 32 pages Candlewick arrives Anna is concerned that Andee and Fan are too different to 2020 E 17.96 get along. il. Barton, Patrice. [IL 7-11] 147 pages Houghton 2015 Crumble, P. (Paul) Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 251731 We Are All Equal. A diverse group of animals comes Cherry, Matthew A. together to celebrate one very important idea: no matter our 210147 Hair Love. A little girl’s daddy steps in to help her arrange differences, we are all equal. il. Bentley, Jonathan. [IL 3-7] 24 pages her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her Philomel 2020 E 21.46 natural, beautiful self. il. Harrison, Vashti. [IL 4-8] 30 pages Kokila De Alvarado, Aracely 2019 E (AR) 21.46 264727 Luna Luminosa, Donde Estas?: Luminous Moon, Where Chung, Arree Are You? Juanito looked outside one dark night and discovered 214143 Mixed: A Colorful Story. Each believing that their hue is the the moon was nowhere to be seen! Where could it have gone? best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until An introduction of the phases of the moon to children. il. Castillo, Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix. il. [IL 4-8] 33 Victoria. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Pinata Books 2020 E 21.44 pages Holt 2018 E (AR) 21.46 De Anda, Diane Clickard, Carrie (Carrie L.) 264810 Mango Moon. Ten-year-old Maricela, her brother Manuel, 222596 Dumpling Dreams: How Joyce Chen Brought The Dumpling and mother face many challenges when her father is taken away From Beijing To Cambridge. The story of how Joyce Chen, a girl to face deportation, but love binds them close. il. Cornelison, Sue. born in Communist China, immigrated to the United States and [IL 4-8] 32 pages Whitman 2019 E (AR) 20.76 popularized Chinese cooking. il. Wu, Katy. [IL 4-8] 42 pages Simon de la Pena, Matt 2017 641-B (AR) 21.46 265895 Carmela Full Of Wishes. Carmela, finally old enough to run Cline-Ransome, Lesa errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect wish, while 222872 Counting The Stars. The story of Katherine Johnson, an his wish seems to be that she stayed home. il. Robinson, Christian. African American mathematician whose work was critical to the [IL 4-8] 34 pages Putnam 2018 E (AR) 21.46 first US space flight. il. Colon, Raul. [IL 4-8] 31 pages Simon 2019 265916 Last Stop On Market Street. A young boy rides the bus 510-B (AR) 21.46 across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the 222881 Finding Langston. Discovering a book of Langston beauty in everyday things. il. Robinson, Christian. [IL 3-5] 32 pages Hughes’ poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss Putnam 2015 E (AR/RC) 20.76 of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the 265888 Miguel And The Grand Harmony. The celebration of a Great Migration, and being bullied. [IL 8-11] 107 pages Holiday lifetime, where the discovery of a generations-old mystery leads House 2018 Fic (AR/RC) 20.76 to a most extraordinary and surprising family reunion. il. Ramirez, 222877 Game Changers: The Story Of Venus And Serena Williams. Ana. [IL 6-8] 48 pages Disney Press 2017 E (AR) 21.46 The inspiring story of sisters, champion athletes, and tennis Deans, Karen superstars Venus and Serena Williams. il. Ransome, James. [IL 5-9] 267692 Swing Sisters: The Story Of The International Sweethearts Of 41 pages Simon 2018 796-C (AR/RC) 21.46 Rhythm. The story of how the talented members of an integrated 222884 Just A Lucky So And So: The Story Of Louis Armstrong. A female orchestra overcome racism and sexism through music. il. joyful tribute to the virtuoso musician and buoyant personality Cepeda, Joe. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Holiday House 2015 781 (AR) who introduced much of the world to jazz. il. Ransome, James. [IL 6.50* 6-10] 36 pages Holiday House 2016 781-B (AR) 20.74 Deenihan, Jamie L. B. 222887 My Story, My Dance: Robert Battle’s Journey To Alvin Ailey. 268370 When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree. When Grandma The inspiring story of how Robert Battle came to be the artistic gives you a lemon tree, definitely don’t make a face! Care for the director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. il. Ransome, tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new James. [IL 5-9] 42 pages Simon 2015 792-B (AR) 21.46 ideas, bloom. il. Rocha, Lorraine. [IL 3-7] 32 pages Sterling 2019 E 222907 Overground Railroad. A girl named Ruth Anne tells the (AR) 20.74 story of her family’s train journey from North Carolina to New York Delacre, Lulu City as part of the Great Migration. il. Ransome, James. [IL 4-8] 42 270901 Luci Soars. Luci has never cast a shadow, but she discovers pages Holiday House 2020 E (AR) 22.16 that what sets her apart is her superpower. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Cocca-Leffler, Maryann Philomel 2020 E 21.46 225300 Belonging Tree. A picture book about respect, inclusion, Denise, Anika and acceptance in the animal community of Forest Lane. il. 273552 Girl Named Rosita: The Story Of Legendary Puerto Rican Lombardi, Kristine. [IL 3-7] 32 pages Holt 2020 E 20.76 Performer Rita Moreno. A picture book biography about Puerto Cooper, Abby Rican-American trailblazing superstar Rita Moreno. il. Espinosa, 241520 Kwame Alexander. A biography of Kwame Alexander, Leo. [IL 4-8] 39 pages Harper 2020 791-B 21.46 children’s author and 2015 Newbery Medal winner for his book Denisevich, Kasya The Crossover. il. [IL 7-9] 32 pages Capstone 2019 811-B (AR) 273666 Neighbors. This contemplative picture book explores the 22.91 many ways that we think about those we exist among but who Cooper, Floyd remain strangers until we make the decision to connect. il. [IL 5-8] 241855 Ring Bearer. Jackson’s mom is getting married, and 44 pages Chronicle 2020 E 22.16 Jackson is nervous about his role and his new family. il. [IL 3-7] 32 Denos, Julia pages Philomel 2017 E (AR) 20.76 273866 Here And Now. Illustrations and easy-to-read text Copp, Mary Wagley celebrate mindfulness and the connectedness of everything on 242296 Wherever I Go. Abia is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Earth. il. Goodale, E. B. [IL 4-7] 33 pages Houghton 2019 E (AR) Shimelba refugee camp, facing her displacement with strength, 21.46 imagination, and pride. il. Mohammed, Munir D. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Diaz, Junot Atheneum 2019 E 21.46 276582 Islandborn. Lola was just a baby when her family left the Cornwall, Gaia Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she 244066 Jabari Jumps. Working up the courage to take a big, asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way make a giant splash. il. [IL 4-8] 31 pages Candlewick 2017 E (AR/ of understanding her own heritage. il. Espinosa, Leo. [IL 5-8] 46 RC) 20.06 pages Dial 2018 E (AR/RC) 21.46 244082 Jabari Tries. Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all Diggs, Taye the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH 279216 I Love You More Than ... A father reassures his young son will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. that although they cannot always be together, he misses his baby il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Candlewick 2020 E 20.76 boy and always thinks about him. il. Evans, Shane. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Feiwel and Friends 2018 E 21.46 4 *Overstock special while supply lasts. DiPucchio, Kelly il. Freeman, Laura. [IL 7-10] 113 pages Clarion 2019 Fic (AR/RC) 280336 Oona. A humorous picture book starring a mischievous 20.06 Black mermaid, her sea creature friends, and their surprising finds 311527 Red Shoes. Malika loves her new red shoes and wears during their quest for treasure. il. Figueroa, Raissa. [IL 4-8] 32 them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her pages Katherine Tegen 2020 E 21.46 grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will Dittmer, Lori become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of 280626 Diwali. An introduction to Diwali, covering the holiday’s Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit history, popular traditions, such defining symbols as clay lamps as much as Malika did. il. Glenn, Ebony. [IL 3-5] 32 pages Scholastic and rangoli designs, and more. il. [IL 5-8] 24 pages Creative 2020 E 21.46 Education 2021 294 15.67 311535 Trouble Next Door. Third grader Calvin is dealing with his Doeden, Matt next door neighbors moving away--and the school bully moving 282353 Cristiano Ronaldo. A biography of Cristiano Ronaldo, in. Meanwhile, competition at the school science fair is heating superstar soccer player for Spanish club Real Madrid. In 2015 he up, and Calvin must decide what to do when his data doesn’t became the leading scorer in Champions League history with a prove his theory. il. Freeman, Laura. [IL 7-10] 139 pages Clarion career record 76 goals. Witness his journey to the top of the soccer 2016 Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 world. il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Lerner 2017 796-B (AR/RC) 28.46 Farish, Terry Dominguez, Angela 322860 Luis Paints The World. Nico doesn’t have to join the Army 285582 Sing, Don’t Cry. A warm family story about finding joy in to see the world--that’s what younger brother Luis tries to show by life, inspired by the author’s grandfather and the Mexican song painting a mural in the neighborhood alley. But Nico is deployed Cielito Lindo. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Holt 2017 781-B (AR) 21.46 and his small brother paints the world in the alleyway to hold on 285567 Stella Diaz Has Something To Say. Stella wants to be friends to him. il. Dominguez, Oliver. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Carolrhoda 2016 E with a new boy in her class, but sometimes she accidentally speaks (AR/RC) 22.86 Spanish instead of English and pronounces English words wrong. Feldman, Thea To make her even more nervous, she is given an assignment to 328232 Katherine Johnson. A biography about NASA speak in front of her class about her favorite subject--marine mathematician Katherine Johnson-whose incredible life story is animals. Will she overcome her fears? il. [IL 7-10] 202 pages part of the hit feature film Hidden Figures. il. Petersen, Alyssa. [IL Roaring Brook 2018 Fic (AR) 20.76 6-9] 47 pages Simon Spotlight 2017 510-B (AR/RC) 13.17 285571 Stella Diaz Never Gives Up. Stella Diaz, a shy Mexican- Florence, Debbi Michiko American girl, wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can’t 343368 Jasmine Toguchi, Flamingo Keeper. Jasmine makes a wish do it alone. il. [IL 7-10] 194 pages Roaring Brook 2020 Fic (AR) for a pet flamingo on the special daruma doll her grandmother 20.76 sent from Japan, then sets out to prove herself responsible Donaldson, Julia enough for a pet. il. Vukovic, Elizabet. [IL 7-10] 112 pages Farrar 285887 Smeds And The Smoos. When Janet and Bill, a young Smed 2018 Fic (AR) 20.06 and Smoo, fall in love, their families strongly disapprove. But love 343370 Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen. Eager to do something conquers all ... il. Scheffler, Axel. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Scholastic 2020 her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides E 21.46 to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets Doyon, Samara Cole together for New Year’s. il. Vukovic, Elizabet. [IL 7-10] 115 pages 290066 Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration. A children’s Farrar 2017 Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 picture book that celebrates in verse being a girl of color. il. 343375 Jasmine Toguchi, Super Sleuth. Jasmine has looked Juanita, Kaylani. [IL 6-8] 32 pages Tilbury House 2020 E 20.74 forward to spending Girls Day with her family and best friend, Duncan, Alice Faye Linnie, but first her sister says she will not participate, and then 295101 Just Like A Mama. Carol Olivia Clementine wishes her Jasmine upsets Linnie. il. Vukovic, Elizabet. [IL 7-10] 108 pages parents did not live so far away, but Mama Rose provides a home, Farrar 2017 Fic (AR) 20.76 loves her, and cares for her just like a mother would. il. Pinkney- Franklin, Ashley Barlow, Charnelle. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Simon 2020 E 21.46 351883 Not Quite Snow White. Tameika is excited to audition for Ehrenberg, Pamela the school’s Snow White musical, but when she overhears her 304188 Queen Of The Hanukkah Dosas. A boy is worried that his classmates say she is too tall, chubby, and brown to play Snow little sister’s climbing will spoil the first night of Hanukkah, when White, she questions whether she is right for the part. il. Glenn, his family combines his father’s Jewish traditions with his mother’s Ebony. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Harper 2019 E (AR) 21.46 East Indian cooking. il. Sarkar, Anjan. [IL 4-7] 32 pages Farrar 2017 Gay, Marie-Louise E 20.76 372224 Mustafa. Young refugee Mustafa feels invisible in his Elliott, Zetta adopted home until a “girl-with-a-cat” extends a welcoming hand. 307070 Place Inside Of Me. A beautiful poem about a brown child il. [IL 4-8] 37 pages Groundwood Books 2018 E 22.84 discovering their emotional landscape. il. Denmon, Noa. [IL 4-8] Gehl, Laura 32 pages Farrar 2020 E 21.46 372796 Happy Llamakkah! Happy Llamakkah! Follow along English, Karen with the Llama family’s Hanukkah traditions as they light their 311464 Dog Days. Gavin wants to make a good impression at menorah, spin the dreidel, fry latkes, and more. il. Nichols, Lydia. Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and [IL 3-5] 24 pages Abrams Appleseed 2020 E 19.36 skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great Gholz, Sophia M. aunt’s Pomeranian are not helping. il. Freeman, Laura. [IL 7-10] 376199 Boy Who Grew A Forest: The True Story Of Jadav Payeng. 122 pages Clarion 2013 Fic (AR/RC) 19.36 The true story of young Jadav Payeng building a forest and an 311469 Don’t Feed The Geckos! When Bernardo comes to live ecosystem, from the ground up, in his native India. il. Harren, with Carlos temporarily, taking over his top bunk, his spot on the Kayla. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Sleeping Bear Press 2019 333-B (AR) school soccer team, and even his Papi’s attention, Carlos knows he 20.76 is not happy, but worse, Bernardo starts messing with Carlos’s pet Giovanni, Nikki geckos, so Carlos tries to see past his cousin’s annoying ways and 380302 I Am Loved. A collection of poems Giovanni hand selected keep the peace for his family’s sake. il. Freeman-Hines, Laura. [IL by Ashley Bryan and brought to life with his masterful flourish of 7-10] 137 pages Houghton 2015 Fic (AR/RC) 13.87 color, shape and movement. il. Bryan, Ashley. [IL 4-8] 22 pages 311508 New Kid. Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren’t sure Atheneum 2018 811 21.46 what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn’t look Glynne, Andy or act like other kids. When Gavin’s bike goes missing, they think 381980 Ali’s Story: A Real-Life Account Of His Journey From Khufu stole it, but did he? il. Freeman, Laura. [IL 7-10] 124 pages Afghanistan. Presents the real-life story of ten-year-old refugee Clarion 2017 Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 Ali, who is forced to flee his home country of Afghanistan with 311522 Pizza Party. Third-grader Richard and his friends are four his grandmother. il. Maldonado, Salvador. [IL 5-8] 31 pages Picture days from earning a pizza party for good behavior when a very Window 2018 305-B (AR) 22.25 strict substitute suspects that some of them have been cheating. 5 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 382135 Hamid’s Story: A Real-Life Account Of His Journey From Harley, Bill Eritrea. Presents the real-life story of ten-year-old refugee Hamid, 419821 Charlie Bumpers Vs. The End Of The Year. Charlie springs who flees Eritrea with his mother to escape war and threats to into action when he learns that one of his best friends, Hector, his family from the government. il. Senior, Tom. [IL 5-8] 30 pages who will move back to Chile at the end of fourth grade, is being Picture Window 2018 305-B (AR) 22.25 bullied. il. Gustavson, Adam. [IL 7-10] 189 pages Peachtree 2019 382212 Juliane’s Story: A Real-Life Account Of Her Journey From Fic (AR/RC) 19.34 Zimbabwe. Presents the real-life story of twelve-year-old refugee Harvey, Jeanne Walker Juliane, who flees with her mother to escape the violence in their 423950 Maya Lin: Artist-Architect Of Light And Lines. The bold story country of Zimbabwe. il. Hammond, Karl. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Picture of Maya Lin, the artist-architect who designed the Vietnam War Window 2018 305-B (AR) 22.25 Memorial. il. Phumiruk, Dow. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Holt 2017 720-B 382251 Navid’s Story: A Real-Life Account Of His Journey From Iran. (AR/RC) 21.46 Presents the real-life story of Kurdish Iranian refugee, Navid, and Hegedus, Bethany describes the fear and uncertainty Navid and his mother feel 434058 Rise!: From Caged Bird To Poet Of The People, Maya Angelou. after they are forced to flee Iran, as well as the long journey they A biography of African American writer, performer, and activist endure to be reunited with Navid’s father. il. Topf, Jonathan. [IL Maya Angelou, who turned a childhood of trauma and emotional 5-8] 30 pages Picture Window 2018 305-B (AR) 22.25 pain to become one of the most inspiring voices of our lifetime. il. Golio, Gary Engel, Tonya. [IL 7-9] 48 pages Lee & Low 2019 818-B (AR/RC) 384837 Carlos Santana: Sound Of The Heart, Song Of The World. 23.54 The childhood story of Carlos Santana, a Mexican-American rock Herrera, Juan Felipe star. il. Gutierrez, Rudy. [IL 5-9] 34 pages Holt 2018 787-B 440723 Imagine. A self-portrait in poetry from a United States 22.16 Poet Laureate. il. Castillo, Lauren. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Candlewick Golkar, Golriz 2018 811 20.76 384843 Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynold’s books are beloved by Herzog, Brad many readers. Learn about how he became a bestseller! il. [IL 7-9] 441088 W Is For Welcome: A Celebration Of America’s Diversity. 32 pages Capstone 2019 813-B (AR) 22.91 Following the alphabet this book uses poetry and expository Gravel, Elise text to celebrate America’s diverse population and showcase the 393591 What Is A Refugee? Introduces the term “refugee” to remarkable achievements and contributions that have come from curious young children and explores what it means to be a the many people who have chosen to make our country their refugee to help them better understand the world in which they home. Topics include well-known landmarks and famous citizens. live. il. [IL 3-7] 32 pages Schwartz & Wade 2019 305 21.46 il. [IL 6-10] 32 pages Sleeping Bear Press 2018 305 (AR) 20.76 Gray Smith, Monique Hill, Laban Carrick 831147 When We Are Kind. Looks at how the simple act of being 445148 When The Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc And The Creation Of kind, to others and oneself, affects all aspects of a child’s life. il. Hip Hop. The story of the start of breakdancing, hip hop, and their Neidhardt, Nicole. [IL 3-5] 32 pages Orca 2020 E 22.84 first DJ. il. Taylor, Theodore. [IL 6-10] 32 pages Roaring Brook 2013 Greenawalt, Kelly 782-B (AR/RC) 21.46 397523 I Am A Super Girl! In rhyming text Princess Truly, super girl, Hoffmann, Susann uses her super powers to help her friend Lizzie celebrate her cat’s 452799 You Are Awesome! An empowering picture book that first birthday, and when things go a little wrong, she gives Lizzie challenges age-old assumptions about boys and girls. il. [IL 3-6] the confidence to believe that she too is a super girl. il. Rauscher, 32 pages Philomel 2020 E 19.36 Amariah. [IL 3-6] 44 pages Acorn/Scholastic 2019 E (AR) Hu, Ying-Hwa 13.42 467327 Ten Blocks To The Big Wok: A Chinatown Counting Book. 397520 Off I Go! Told in rhyming text, Princess Truly uses her super This bilingual counting book uses a stroll through Chinatown to powers to explore the world, whether it is visiting penguins with introduce readers to the numbers one through ten in Chinese. il. her brother in Antarctica, or taking her timid pug Sir Noodles on [IL 8-12] 32 pages Lee & Low 2020 E 22.14 a vacation in a rain forest. il. Rauscher, Amariah. [IL 3-6] 44 pages Hughes, Langston Acorn/Scholastic 2019 E (AR) 13.42 469982 I, Too, Am America. A classic poem brought to life. il. Greenfield, Eloise Collier, Bryan. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Simon 2012 811 6.50* 400446 Thinker: My Puppy Poet And Me. Thinker isn’t just an 470460 My People. A modern interpretation of a classic poem average puppy--he’s a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together they through vivid black and white photographs of the faces, eyes, turn the world around them into verse. There’s just one problem: and souls of many different people. il. Smith, Charles R. [IL 4-8] 30 Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can’t go to school with pages Atheneum 2009 811 22.16 Jace. That is, until Pets’ Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the Ieronimo, Christine classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret. 478144 Thirst For Home: A Story Of Water Across The World. Alemitu il. Abdollahi, Ehsan. [IL 4-8] 30 pages Sourcebooks Jabberwocky lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must 2019 E 20.06 walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though Grimes, Nikki life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more about the 353892 Kamala Harris: Rooted In Justice. The first-ever picture world. When her mother has no choice but to leave her at an book biography on Senator Kamala Harris. il. Freeman, Laura. [IL orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family 4-8] 40 pages Atheneum 2020 328-B 21.46 adopts Alemitu. il. Velasquez, Eric. [IL 6-9] 32 pages Walker Books 402551 Poems In The Attic. A young girl learns much about her 2014 E (AR) 6.50* mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was Isbell, Hannah born that capture her mother’s memories of living around the 568575 Misty Copeland: Ballerina. A biography of Misty Copeland, world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. il. named principal ballerina of the American Ballet Theatre, the first Zunon, Elizabeth. [IL 6-10] 42 pages Lee & Low 2015 811 (AR) African American to earn the title in the ballet company’s history. 22.84 il. [IL 7-10] 24 pages Enslow 2017 792-B (AR/RC) 15.85 402554 Southwest Sunrise. Jayden expects to see nothing but James, LeBron brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised 487275 I Promise. Encourages kids to be their own biggest by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this motivators and to be their best selves! il. Mata, Nina. [IL 4-8] 33 place could become home. il. Minor, Wendell. [IL 3-6] 34 pages pages Harper 2020 E 22.86 Bloomsbury 2020 E 22.16 Javaherbin, Mina Guerra, Juan J. 490131 Soccer Star. An inspiring story of a Brazilian boy who 406076 Little Doctor = El Doctorcito. Salvador raced home from dreams of being a soccer star--and the sister who steps in to school to share his exciting news with his abuela: he made an help his team win a game. il. Alarcao, Renato. [IL 5-8] 32 pages A+ on his science test! But when he gets home, he learns that his Candlewick 2014 E (AR/RC) 6.50* grandmother needs his help. She is going to the doctor and wants her grandson to translate for her. il. Castillo, Victoria. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Pinata Books 2017 E 21.44 6 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Johnson, Angela Krajnik, Elizabeth 493639 Girl Like Me. Empowers young readers to embrace their 530424 Families Through Adoption. Carefully approaches the individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. il. different types of adoption and some of the challenges that Crews, Nina. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Millbrook Press 2020 811 19.36 families through adoption may face. It encourages young Jordan, Deloris readers to consider how adoption affects a family and how they 501077 Salt In His Shoes: Michael Jordan In Pursuit Of A Dream. can understand peers who are adopted. il. [IL 7-11] 24 pages Michael Jordan learns that determination and hard work are more PowerKids 2021 362 15.30 important than size. il. Nelson, Kadir. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Aladdin Krekelberg, Alyssa 2003 E (AR/RC) 15.67 532793 No One Is The Same: Appreciating Differences. Teaches Joy, Angela young readers to appreciate the differences in others. il. [IL 5-8] 24 502249 Black Is A Rainbow Color. A child reflects on the meaning pages Child’s World 2021 302 22.14 of being Black in this anthem about a people, a culture, a history, Krull, Kathleen and a legacy that lives on. il. Holmes, Ekua. [IL 4-8] 32 pages 533309 Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey Of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Roaring Brook 2020 E 21.46 A picture-book biography on science superstar Neil deGrasse Juarez, Christine Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work 503618 Ellen Ochoa. Describes the life and work of astronaut has inspired a generation of young scientists and astronomers Ellen Ochoa. il. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Capstone 2017 629-B (AR) to reach for the stars! il. Morrison, Frank. [IL 4-8] 42 pages Crown 19.34 Books 2018 523-B (AR/RC) 21.46 Kamkwamba, William Kuefler, Joseph 506354 Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. A boy learns to build a 534137 Rulers Of The Playground. One morning, Jonah decided windmill to bring electricity to his village during a drought and to become ruler of the playground. Everyone agreed to obey famine. il. Zunon, Elizabeth. [IL 6-8] 32 pages Dial 2012 621-B (AR/ his rules to play in King Jonah’s kingdom ... everyone except for RC) 21.46 Lennox. il. [IL 4-8] 41 pages Harper 2017 E (AR) 21.46 Kendi, Ibram X. Kunkel, Angela Burke 513179 Antiracist Baby. Illustrations and rhyming text present nine 534870 Digging For Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez And The Library steps Antiracist Baby can take to improve equity, such as opening He Built. Based on the life of Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences. il. collector in Bogota, Colombia who started with a single discarded Lukashevsky, Ashley. [IL 5-7] 26 pages Kokila 2020 E 15.58 book found on his route. il. Escobar, Paola. [IL 4-8] 40 pages Khan, Hena Schwartz & Wade 2020 E 21.46 516473 Bounce Back. When an injury sidelines new captain Zayd, Lajiness, Katie he must find another way to be a leader for his basketball team. 537439 Cree. An introduction to the Cree people, including ways il. Comport, Sally Wern. [IL 7-10] 131 pages Salaam Reads 2018 Fic of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. il. [IL (AR/RC) 20.76 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 22.84 516746 Crescent Moons And Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book 537456 Crow. An introduction to the Crow people, including Of Shapes. In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl guides ways of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. the reader through the traditions and shapes of Islam. il. Amini, il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 22.84 Mehrdokht. [IL 8-12] 30 pages Chronicle 2018 E (AR) 21.46 537465 Dakota. An introduction to the Dakota people, including 516475 Like The Moon Loves The Sky. Illustrations and prose ways of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. inspired by the Quran celebrate a mother’s love and hopes for her il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 22.84 child. il. Khan, Saffa. [IL 3-5] 30 pages Chronicle 2020 E 21.46 537488 Mohawk. An introduction to the Mohawk people, 516472 On Point. Zayd is so excited to finally be on the Gold including ways of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, Team in basketball but when the team starts struggling and his and more. il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 best friend quits to play football he must step up for his team. il. 22.84 Comport, Sally Wern. [IL 7-10] 130 pages Salaam Reads 2018 Fic 537496 Ojibwe. An introduction to the Ojibwe people, including (AR) 20.76 ways of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. 516443 Power Forward. Fourth-grader Zayd yearns to play il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 22.84 basketball on the Gold Team, but when he skips orchestra 537500 Pawnee. An introduction to the Pawnee people, including rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball- ways of life, social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. related, and tryouts are coming soon. il. Comport, Sally Wern. [IL il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy Books 2019 970 22.84 7-10] 126 pages Salaam Reads 2018 Fic (AR) 20.76 537503 Shoshone. An introduction to the Shoshone people and 516474 Under My Hijab. As a young girl observes that each of six their traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she food, art, clothing, and more. il. [IL 7-10] 32 pages Big Buddy considers how to express her own style one day. il. Jaleel, Aaliya. Books 2017 978 (AR) 6.50* [IL 4-8] 32 pages Lee & Low 2019 E (AR) 22.14 Larkin, Shabazz Kheiriyeh, Rashin 543064 Thing About Bees: A Love Letter. A love poem from a father 517039 Saffron Ice Cream. Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and we love to eat. Children are introduced to different kinds of bees, fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her taught how “not to get stung,” and how things we fear are often native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored things we don’t fully understand. il. [IL 3-7] 32 pages Readers to ice cream that she used to eat. il. [IL 4-8] 40 pages Scholastic 2018 Eaters 2019 E 21.46 E (AR/RC) 21.46 Le, Minh Kim, Anna 554700 Drawn Together. A boy and his grandfather cross a 517927 Danbi Leads The School Parade. Danbi is thrilled to start language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, her new school in America. But a bit nervous too, for when she storytelling, and fantasy. il. Santat, Dan. [IL 3-5] 34 pages Disney/ walks into the classroom, everything goes quiet. Everyone stares. Hyperion 2018 E (AR) 21.46 Danbi wants to join in the dances and the games, but she doesn’t 554760 Lift. When Iris’s elevator button-pushing is disrupted by a know the rules and just can’t get anything right. Luckily, she isn’t new member of the family, she’s pretty put out. That is, until the one to give up. With a spark of imagination, she makes up a new sudden appearance of a mysterious new button opens up new game and leads her classmates on a parade to remember! il. [IL worlds. il. Santat, Dan. [IL 3-5] 50 pages Disney/Hyperion 2020 E 3-7] 34 pages Viking 2020 E 21.46 21.46 Kobald, Irena Leannah, Michael 527592 My Two Blankets. A young girl has moved to a new country 554846 Most People. The world can be a scary place. Anxious with her auntie, and everything is strange. An old blanket gives adults want children to be aware of the dangers, but shouldn’t her comfort when she’s sad--and a new blanket just might change kids be aware of kindness too? il. Morris, J. E. [IL 5-6] 35 pages her world. il. Blackwood, Freya. [IL 4-8] 31 pages Houghton 2015 E Tilbury House 2017 E (AR) 20.74 (AR/RC) 20.76 7 *Overstock special while supply lasts. Ledyard, Stephanie Parsley worries about arriving with empty hands. il. Minter, Daniel. [IL 4-8] 556137 Home Is A Window. A family learns what home really 31 pages Peachtree 2020 E (AR/RC) 20.74 means when they leave their beloved house and move to another. Maclear, Kyo il. Sasaki, Chris. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Holiday House 2019 E 22.16 595066 It Began With A Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew The 488330 Pie Is For Sharing. A Fourth of July celebration at the Way. The most moving moments in the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a beach demonstrates the joy of sharing many things, including groundbreaking Japanese-American picture book artist whose pie. il. Chin, Jason. [IL 2-6] 29 pages Roaring Brook 2018 E (AR) work helped start the trend of depicting diversity in children’s 21.46 books. il. Morstad, Julie. [IL 4-8] 48 pages Harper 2019 740-B (AR) Lee, Lyla 21.46 556541 Mindy Kim And The Lunar New Year Parade. Mindy is Mahin, Michael James excited to go to the Lunar New Year parade in her new town 596894 When Angels Sing: The Story Of Rock Legend Carlos Santana. with her father and her friend Sally. il. Ho, Dung. [IL 6-9] 77 pages A picture book biography of the celebrated rock musician Carlos Aladdin 2020 Fic 20.76 Santana. il. Ramirez, Jose. [IL 4-8] 42 pages Atheneum 2018 787-B 556596 Mindy Kim And The Yummy Seaweed Business. Mindy Kim (AR/RC) 21.46 wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads Maillard, Kevin Noble to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble. il. Ho, 597281 Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story. A picture book Dung. [IL 6-9] 82 pages Aladdin 2020 Fic 20.76 about family, tradition, and a Native American staple. il. Martinez- 556623 Mindy Kim, Class President. It’s time to pick a class Neal, Juana. [IL 4-7] 41 pages Roaring Brook 2019 E 22.16 president, and Mindy really wants to win--and she’s basing her Malesevic, Draga Jenny entire campaign on snacks and being kind, so how could she NOT 258446 Are You Eating Candy Without Me? Four different children be chosen? But there is one big thing that Mindy is not sure she from three different families ponder what the adults in their lives can do--make a speech to her class about why she would be the do during the day. Are they jumping on trampolines? Are they best pick for president. il. Ho, Dung. [IL 6-9] 85 pages Aladdin 2020 eating cake and ice cream while riding birthday ponies? Are they Fic 21.46 eating candy with other adults? il. Bruijn, Charlotte. [IL 3-6] 30 Lendroth, Susan pages Penguin Workshop 2020 E 21.46 559854 Natsumi! The festival of traditional Japanese arts is Mallery, Sydra coming up, and little Natsumi’s big personality is too much for her 613597 Most Unusual Day. Caroline is anxious all day at school, family’s quieter traditions, until her grandfather introduces her to nervous about her newly-adopted sister’s arrival from far away. taiko drumming. il. Burris, Priscilla. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Putnam 2018 il. Goodale, E. B. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Greenwillow Books 2018 E (AR) E (AR) 20.76 21.46 Levy, Debbie Mandela, Zindzi 567656 We Shall Overcome: The Story Of A Song. An inspirational 599577 Grandpa Mandela. A biography of the life of Nelson picture book celebrating the history of the struggle for freedom, Mandela, world-renowned freedom fighter, South African as seen through moments when “We Shall Overcome” was sung. President, and Nobel Peace Prize-winner. il. Qualls, Sean. [IL 4-7] il. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Disney/Jump at the 40 pages Quarto 2018 968-B 21.46 Sun 2013 781 (AR) 20.76 Martin, Jacqueline Briggs Loh-Hagan, Virginia 606232 Chef Roy Choi And The Street Food Remix. The story of the 583996 Dorothy Vaughan. A biography of the life of NASA Korean American chef in Los Angeles who inspired new methods computer programmer and mathematician Dorothy Vaughan. il. for the food truck movement and works to create a better Bane, Jeff. [IL 5-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2018 510-B (AR) community through food. il. Man One. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Readers 22.84 to Eaters 2017 641-B (AR/RC) 22.14 584003 Mary Jackson. A biography of the life of NASA aerospace Martinez-Neal, Juana engineer Mary Jackson. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 5-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 594357 Alma And How She Got Her Name. Alma Sofia Esperanza 2018 510-B (AR) 22.84 Jose Pura Candela has way too many names: six! As she hears the 584007 Nian, The Chinese New Year Dragon: A Beastly Tale. An story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit illustrated retelling for young readers of the Chinese folktale after all. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Candlewick 2018 E (AR/RC) about a dragon that threatens a village each spring and Mei, the 20.06 young girl who is destined to defeat him. il. Banks, Timothy. [IL McDaniel, Breanna J. 5-8] 32 pages Sleeping Bear Press 2019 398-E 20.76 623026 Hands Up! A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of 584001 PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year. When PoPo, her Chinese everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance grandmother, comes to visit, a young Chinese-American girl at a protest march. il. Evans, Shane. [IL 5-6] 32 pages Dial 2019 E learns about the customs and beliefs of celebrating Chinese New 21.46 Year. il. Benoit, Renne. [IL 6-9] 29 pages Sleeping Bear Press 2017 McDonnell, Patrick E 20.76 620773 Shine! A starfish named Little Hoshi struggles to find 584004 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. A biography of the life of Nobel happiness in her underwater ocean world and wishes she could Prize winner medical physicist Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. il. Bane, be a star in the sky, but with the help of her ocean friends, she Jeff. [IL 5-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2018 610-B (AR) 22.84 discovers the shine within. il. Stoop, Naoko. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Little 584125 Shirley Ann Jackson. A biography of the life of physicist 2017 E (AR) 20.76 Shirley Ann Jackson. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 5-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake McKissack, Pat 2018 530-B (AR) 22.84 628123 Goin’ Someplace Special. In segregated 1950s Nashville, Lumbard, Rabiah York a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and 590650 Gift Of Ramadan. Sophia tries to fast for Ramadan for obstacles to get to the public library. il. Pinkney, Jerry. [IL 4-8] 36 the first time, but her grumbling stomach and her little brother’s pages Atheneum 2001 E (AR/RC) 21.46 cookies are too much and she must find a different way to 628442 What Is Given From The Heart. Despite their own poverty celebrate. il. Horton, Laura K. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Whitman 2019 E since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need 20.76 to help Sarah, seven, whose family lost everything in a fire. il. Lyon, Lea Harrison, April. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Schwartz & Wade 2019 E (AR) 591323 Ready To Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became The Bookmobile 21.46 Ballerina. An inspiring picture book about the life of African Meadows, Michelle American dancer, Sylvia Townsend, who taught herself how to 634324 Brave Ballerina: The Story Of Janet Collins. A picture book dance ballet by reading books she borrowed from a bookmobile tribute to Janet Collins, the first African American principal dancer as a young girl. il. Gibson, Jessica. [IL 4-8] 40 pages Harper 2020 at the Metropolitan Opera House. il. Glenn, Ebony. [IL 4-8] 32 792-B (AR) 21.46 pages Holt 2019 792-B (AR) 21.46 Lyons, Kelly Starling 591556 Going Down Home With Daddy. Alan looks forward to the annual family reunion at the farm where Daddy grew up, but everyone is supposed to share something special and Alan 8 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 634326 Flying High: The Story Of Gymnastics Champion Simone Muhammad, Ibtihaj Biles. A childhood biography of Simone Biles, international 663225 Proudest Blue: A Story Of Hijab And Family. Faizah relates gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. il. Glenn, Ebony. [IL how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears 4-8] 40 pages Holt 2020 796-B 21.46 a hijab to school. il. Aly, Hatem. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Little 2019 E (AR) Meddour, Wendy 21.46 634483 Lubna And Pebble. Lubna’s best friend is a pebble. Pebble Munsch, Robert N. always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels 664501 From Far Away. Describes one girl’s experience of adapting scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, to a new culture, as she leaves war-torn Beirut to settle in Canada Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does. il. with her family. il. Green, Rebecca. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Annick Press Egneus, Daniel. [IL 4-8] 30 pages Dial 2019 E (AR) 21.46 2017 E (RC) 16.15 Medina, Juana Murphy, Frank 635012 Juana & Lucas. Juana, a spunky young Colombian girl, 664954 Girl Like You. Encourages every girl to embrace all of the does not love learning English. But when Juana’s abuelos tell things that make her unique, to be strong and kind, to stand up her about a special trip they are planning she begins to wonder for herself, and more. il. Harren, Kayla. [IL 4-8] 25 pages Sleeping whether learning the English might be a good thing. il. [IL 7-10] 88 Bear Press 2020 E 20.76 pages Candlewick 2016 Fic (AR/RC) 15.74 Murray, Julie 635008 Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas. When her mami meets 665522 Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an important holiday that celebrates someone new, Juana worries that everything will change. il. [IL African heritage and African-American culture, including gift 7-10] 88 pages Candlewick 2019 Fic (AR) 19.36 giving, lighting Kinara candles each day, a big feast, and much Medina, Meg more. il. [IL 4-8] 24 pages Abdo Kids 2019 394 (AR) 22.14 635007 Evelyn Del Ray Is Moving Away. The bittersweet story 665525 Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is a special holiday that of two girls who will always be each other’s numero uno, even celebrates the beginning of the Jewish New Year, including how though one is moving away. il. Sanchez, Sonia. [IL 5-7] 32 pages Jews celebrate by enjoying festive meals, eating symbolic foods Candlewick 2020 E 21.46 like apples dipped in honey, attending synagogue services, and 635013 Mango, Abuela, And Me. When a little girl’s far-away more. il. [IL 4-8] 24 pages Abdo Kids 2019 296 (AR) 22.14 grandmother comes to stay, love and patience transcend Myers, Christopher language. il. Dominguez, Angela. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Candlewick 665994 H.o.r.s.e.: A Game Of Basketball And Imagination. Two 2017 E (AR) 14.77 friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out- Mendez, Yamile Saied of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E. il. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Egmont 2012 637196 Where Are You From? When a little girl is asked where Fic 22.16 she’s from she’s no longer as sure as she was about her reply. She Naberhaus, Sarvinder turns to her abuelo for the real answer. However, he doesn’t quite 666513 Blue Sky White Stars. A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty give her the response she expects. il. Kim, Jaime. [IL 4-8] 33 pages and wonder of America’s symbols, history, and landscape. il. Harper 2019 E 21.46 Nelson, Kadir. [IL 4-7] 32 pages Dial 2017 973 21.46 Michelson, Richard Nelson, Marilyn 641392 Fascinating: The Life Of Leonard Nimoy. A moving 670512 Lubaya’s Quiet Roar. A quiet girl makes a powerful biography of the late Leonard Nimoy, the iconic Spock from Star impression through her artwork in this story of introversion and Trek, whose story exemplifies the American experience and the peaceful protest. il. Williamson, Philemona. [IL 5-8] 26 pages Dial power of pursuing your dreams. il. Rodriguez, Edel. [IL 4-8] 33 2020 E 21.46 pages Knopf 2016 791-B (AR/RC) 21.46 Newman, Leslea Miller, Sharee 674842 Here Is The World: A Year Of Jewish Holidays. This lyrical 644677 Don’t Touch My Hair! Aria loves her soft and bouncy hair, picture book celebrates the Jewish holidays in a way that small but must go to extremes to avoid people who touch it without children will appreciate. il. Gal, Susan. [IL 4-7] 48 pages Abrams permission until, finally, she speaks up. il. [IL 4-7] 33 pages Little 2014 296 6.50* 2018 E (AR) 21.46 Newman, Tracy 646354 Princess Hair. Little girls pretending to be princesses 674750 Around The Passover Table. A family prepares for Passover celebrate the different shapes, textures, and styles of their black in this simple story told in rhyme. il. Santos, Adriana. [IL 4-8] 32 hair. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Little 2020 E 15.17 pages Whitman 2019 E 20.76 Millner, Denene Nordling, Lee 647276 Fresh Princess: Style Rules! Fresh Princess Destiny finds 679776 Belinda The Unbeatable. Two best friends take part in a a way to stand out at her new school. il. Jose, Gladys. [IL 4-8] 30 game of musical chairs. There’s Belinda, a natural competitor pages Harper 2020 E 22.16 with a good heart, and her shy friend Barbara. When the game Moening, Kate starts, their school gym morphs into a colorful obstacle course. il. 650652 Carla Hayden: Librarian Of Congress. A biography of Carla Roberts, Scott. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Graphic Universe 2017 741 Hayden, including her being the first African American and the 14.67 first woman to become Librarian of Congress, and more. il. [IL 6-8] Nuurali, Siman 24 pages Bellwether Media 2021 027-B 21.44 684147 Sadiq And The Desert Star. Sadiq’s father is going on Mora, Oge a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the 658028 Saturday. When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq’s third grade class Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple their time together. il. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Little 2019 E (AR) telescope to study the stars when his father returns. il. Sarkar, 22.16 Anjan. [IL 7-9] 56 pages Picture Window 2020 Fic (AR) 20.30 658025 Thank You, Omu! When the aroma of Omu’s homemade 684149 Sadiq And The Fun Run. Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents all is gone except for her generous spirit. il. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Little feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running 2018 E (AR/RC) 22.16 and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but Mora, Pat the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well. il. 657932 Beautiful Lady: Our Lady Of Guadalupe. Grandma Lupita Sarkar, Anjan. [IL 7-9] 56 pages Picture Window 2020 Fic (AR/RC) tells her granddaughter Rose and Rose’s friend Terry the story of 20.30 Our Lady of Guadalupe, a miracle that occurred near Mexico City in 1531. il. Johnson, Steve. [IL 5-8] 33 pages Knopf 2012 E (AR/RC) 20.76 Morales, Yuyi 658024 Dreamers. An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story. il. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Holiday House 2018 818-A 22.16 9 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 684164 Sadiq And The Green Thumbs. Even though it is summer Pilutti, Deb Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the 718174 Ten Steps To Flying Like A Superhero. Lava Boy and Star Girl Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict teach their superheroes the rules for flying. il. [IL 5-9] 40 pages and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has Holt 2020 E 21.46 an injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the Pinkney, Andrea Davis gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well. il. 719034 Poem For Peter: The Story Of Ezra Jack Keats And The Sarkar, Anjan. [IL 7-9] 57 pages Picture Window 2020 Fic (AR/RC) Creation Of The Snowy Day. A celebration of the extraordinary life 20.30 of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. il. Johnson, Steve. [IL 684172 Sadiq And The Pet Problem. Sadiq’s third grade class 7-9] 52 pages Viking 2016 800-B (AR/RC) 22.16 decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Pinkney, J. Brian Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to 719045 Time For Kenny. Guides readers through a young child’s decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of day. il. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Greenwillow Books 2020 E 21.46 it. il. Sarkar, Anjan. [IL 7-9] 57 pages Picture Window 2020 Fic (AR/ Pinkney, Jerry RC) 20.30 718986 Little Mermaid. In this captivating reimagining of Hans Nyong’o, Lupita Christian Andersen’s classic, Jerry Pinkney conjures a poignant 684544 Sulwe. When five-year-old Sulwe’s classmates make fun friendship story and an epic tale of redemption. il. [IL 4-8] 48 of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her pages Little 2020 E 22.16 encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is Polinsky, Paige V. beauty in every shade. il. Harrison, Vashti. [IL 4-8] 47 pages Simon 724014 Indra Nooyi: CEO Of PepsiCo. A biography of Indra Nooyi, 2019 E (AR) 21.46 including her childhood in India all the way up to her present-day O’Brien, Anne Sibley work, and more. il. [IL 6-8] 24 pages Bellwether Media 2019 338-B 684963 Someone New. When three children, Jesse, Jason, and (AR) 21.44 Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic Preller, James backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and 730529 All Welcome Here. A fresh picture book collection of haiku to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima. il. [IL poems about the first day of school. il. GrandPre, Mary. [IL 4-7] 33 5-8] 32 pages Charlesbridge 2018 E (AR) 20.76 pages Feiwel and Friends 2020 811 22.16 Orbeck-Nilssen, Constance Quan, Betty 690780 Vanishing Colors. As a young refugee girl takes shelter 736313 Grandmother’s Visit. Grandmother lives with Grace’s family. for the night, the world appears bleak. But as she starts thinking She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they about her happy memories, she finds the courage to hope for a savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother drops Grace off better future. il. Duzakin, Akin. [IL 5-9] 37 pages Eerdmans 2019 E at school every morning and picks her up at the end of the day. 21.47 Then, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and Orr, Tamra the door to her room stays closed. One day Grandmother’s room is 691990 Mexican Heritage. Explores the geography, languages, empty. After the funeral, Grace’s mom turns on the outside lights religions, food, and culture of Mexico. il. [IL 7-10] 24 pages Cherry so Grandmother’s spirit can find its way for one final goodbye. il. Lake 2018 972 (AR) 22.84 Mok, Carmen. [IL 4-7] 30 pages Groundwood Books 2018 E Ortiz, Raquel M. 21.44 692029 Sofi And The Magic, Musical Mural = Sofi Y El Magico Mural Quintero, Isabel Musical. On the way back from the bodega, Sofia is drawn into 736603 My Papi Has A Motorcycle. When Daisy Ramona zooms a life-like mural of Old San Juan where she dances, sings, and around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she conquers her fear of the vejigante before being called back to sees the people and places she’s always known. She also sees a the barrio by her mother. In English and Spanish. il. Dominguez, community that is rapidly changing around her. il. Pena, Zeke. [IL Maria. [IL 6-8] 32 pages Pinata Books 2015 E (AR) 21.44 4-8] 40 pages Kokila 2019 E (AR/RC) 21.46 Otoshi, Kathryn Ramadan, Danny 694148 Draw The Line. Two boys learn about imagination and 738189 Salma The Syrian Chef. A little girl’s quest to make a play as well as conflict and forgiveness through simply drawing a traditional Syrian meal for her Mama. il. Bron, Anna. [IL 4-7] 40 line. il. [IL 3-6] 48 pages Roaring Brook 2017 E 21.46 pages Annick Press 2020 E 22.14 Pellicioli, Anna Rappaport, Doreen 708933 Song Of The Old City. A little girl ventures through the 739730 Wilma’s Way Home: The Life Of Wilma Mankiller. A picture old city of Istanbul, receives many kindnesses along the way, and book biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of practices the tradition of passing on what she receives. il. Atilgan, the Cherokee Nation. il. Kukuk, Linda. [IL 6-8] 48 pages Disney/ Merve. [IL 3-7] 40 pages Putnam E 21.46 Hyperion 2019 973-B (AR/RC) 21.46 Penfold, Alexandra Raul the Third 709117 All Are Welcome. Illustrations and simple, rhyming text 740515 Vamos! Let’s Go Eat! Little Lobo returns to share his love of introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, food and wrestling with readers using English intermingled with stories, and talents are shared. il. Kaufman, Suzanne. [IL 4-8] 33 Spanish phrases. il. Bay, Elaine. [IL 4-7] 40 pages Houghton 2020 pages Knopf 2018 E 21.46 E 19.36 Perkins, Mitali 385679 Vamos! Let’s Go To The Market. Little Lobo, a Mexican 709670 Between Us And Abuela: A Family Story From The Border. American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between the Mercado, a busy border town market. il. Bay, Elaine. [IL 4-8] 40 California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, pages Houghton 2019 E (AR/RC) 19.36 Maria must devise a way to get Juan’s gift over the fence. il. Redding, LaTisha Palacios, Sara. [IL 4-8] 36 pages Farrar 2019 E (AR) 21.46 741875 Calling The Water Drum. A young boy loses both parents Perkins, Useni Eugene as they attempt to flee Haiti for a better life, and afterward is only 709690 Hey Black Child. A lyrical, empowering poem that able to process his grief and communicate with the outside world celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young ones to through playing the drums. il. Boyd, Aaron. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Lee & dream big and achieve their goals. il. Collier, Bryan. [IL 4-8] 38 Low 2016 E (RC) 6.50* pages Little 2017 811 21.46 Reid, Megan Phi, Bao 745006 50 Icons, Luminaries, And Legends Who Revolutionized 714438 My Footprints. Upset after being bullied, Thuy, a The World. Features the iconic figures known all over the world Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, who revolutionized popular culture, and the “firsts” that made an including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her indelible mark in the fields of art, entertainment, science, politics, two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and and sports. il. Cruickshank, Jess. [IL 9-12] 128 pages Holt 2020 the Sarabha. il. Tran, Basia. 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Binny’s class is learning about different Thompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah holiday traditions, and today it is time for Binny to share the 856029 Mommy’s Khimar. A young Muslim girl puts on a head story of her favorite holiday, Diwali, the Festival of Lights--and scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines she even has some special treats to give her classmates. Includes herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more. il. Glenn, information on the five days of Diwali, what it commemorates, Ebony. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Salaam Reads 2018 E (AR) 21.46 and its special traditions. il. Chanani, Nidhi. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Thong, Roseanne Scholastic 2020 E 21.46 881516 One Is A Pinata: A Book Of Numbers. In rhyming text, Hispanic children count the things, like pinatas and maracas, that can be seen in their neighborhood. il. Parra, John. [IL 3-6] 33 pages Chronicle 2019 E 20.76 881519 Round Is A Tortilla: A Book Of Shapes. 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She’s stuck in the middle in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who’s between an exceptionally cute baby sister and an exceptionally Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square smart older brother. And her tired parents seem to only notice the dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she’s not gonna let that “exceptional” kids in the house. So when a class project lassoes slide. [IL 8-12] 272 pages Levine Querido Fic 21.46 Mya into starting her own school newspaper, she’s sure this will Behar, Ruth earn her the star status she wants from her parents. But the same 102016 Lucky Broken Girl. 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The broom hanging on the family’s cabin man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first wall is a special symbol of Ellen’s parents’ wedding during slave taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Mahatma days, so she carries it to the courthouse when the marriage Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British becomes legal. il. Minter, Daniel. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Putnam 2012 E law. il. Ferri, Giuliano. [IL 6-8] 41 pages Walker Books 2014 E (AR/ (AR/RC) 20.76 RC) 6.50* Maclear, Kyo Krull, Kathleen 595066 It Began With A Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew The 533301 Sacajawea. Sacajawea was only sixteen when she Way. The most moving moments in the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history, groundbreaking Japanese-American picture book artist whose traveling 4,500 miles on the Lewis and Clark expedition. il. Collins, work helped start the trend of depicting diversity in children’s Matt. 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The picture book about Anne Frank and how she found her voice in a inspirational story of African-American inventor Garrett Morgan, world determined to silence her. il. Lewis, Aura. [IL 6-8] 42 pages whose incredible safety hood became the forerunner to the gas Orchard Books 2020 940-B 22.16 mask that saved thousands of soldiers in the trenches of World Marsico, Katie War I. il. Parkins, David. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Tundra Books 2016 609-B 603578 George Washington Carver. A biography of the life of (AR/RC) 6.50* George Washington Carver, who made advances in agriculture. il. Kunkel, Angela Burke Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Cherry Lake 2019 630-B (AR) 534870 Digging For Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez And The Library 22.84 He Built. Based on the life of Jose Alberto Gutierrez, a garbage 603628 Lewis Howard Latimer. A biography of the life of Civil War collector in Bogota, Colombia who started with a single discarded veteran and inventor, Lewis Howard Latimer. il. Bane, Jeff. [IL 4-7] book found on his route. il. Escobar, Paola. [IL 4-8] 40 pages 24 pages Cherry Lake 2019 609-B (AR) 22.84 Schwartz & Wade 2020 E 21.46 Martin, Isabel Langley, Sharon 606136 Benjamin Banneker. Simple text and photographs present 542033 Ride To Remember: A Civil Rights Story. An amusement park the life of Benjamin Banneker, a free African American astronomer, in Maryland became desegregated in 1963 after a community of author, and inventor of the 1700s. il. [IL 4-7] 24 pages Capstone black and white residents came together to make the change. 2015 520-B (AR) 19.31 Sharon and her parents were the first African American family to Mason, Margaret H. walk into the park, and Sharon was the first African American child 611404 These Hands. A black man tells his grandson about a time to ride the merry-go-round on the same day of Martin Luther King when, despite all the things his hands could do, they could not Jr.’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. il. Cooper, Floyd. touch bread at the Wonder Bread factory. il. Cooper, Floyd. [IL 4-8] [IL 6-9] 40 pages Abrams 2020 305-B 22.16 32 pages Houghton 2011 E (AR/RC) 20.76 Latham, Irene Meadows, Michelle 544528 Meet Miss Fancy. A story set prior to the Civil Rights 634324 Brave Ballerina: The Story Of Janet Collins. A picture book Movement about a boy who finds a way to challenge segregation tribute to Janet Collins, the first African American principal dancer laws. il. Holyfield, John. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Putnam 2018 E at the Metropolitan Opera House. il. Glenn, Ebony. [IL 4-8] 32 21.46 pages Holt 2019 792-B (AR) 21.46 Leung, Julie Meltzer, Brad 566342 Paper Son: The Inspiring Story Of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant 636184 I Am Anne Frank. The story of Anne Frank, the young And Artist. A picture-book biography of animator Tyrus Wong, the Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from Nazis Chinese American immigrant responsible for bringing Disney’s during World War II. il. Eliopoulos, Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial 2020 Bambi to life. il. Sasaki, Chris. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Schwartz & Wade 940-B 20.06 2019 740-B (AR) 21.46 636301 I Am Gandhi. Tells the story of how Gandhi used Levinson, Cynthia the principles of nonviolence and noncooperation to fight 567476 Youngest Marcher: The Story Of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A discrimination against Indians in South Africa and to end British Young Civil Rights Activist. In May 1963, three thousand children rule in India. il. Eliopoulos, Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial 2017 954-B were arrested for civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama. (AR/RC) 20.06 One of those children was nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks. 636305 I Am Harriet Tubman. A biography of Harriet Tubman, This is her story. il. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa. [IL 5-10] 40 pages the abolitionist leader who played a key role in helping enslaved Atheneum 2017 323-B (AR/RC) 21.46 people escape via the Underground Railroad. il. Eliopoulos, Chris. Levy, Debbie [IL 5-8] 40 pages Dial 2018 326-B (AR) 19.36 567656 We Shall Overcome: The Story Of A Song. An inspirational 636306 I Am Jackie Robinson. A biography of Jackie Robinson, the picture book celebrating the history of the struggle for freedom, first African-American to play Major League Baseball. il. Eliopoulos, as seen through moments when “We Shall Overcome” was sung. Chris. [IL 5-8] 40 pages Dial 2015 796-B (AR) 20.06 il. Brantley-Newton, Vanessa. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Disney/Jump at the Sun 2013 781 (AR) 20.76 5 *Overstock special while supply lasts. 636308 I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. A biography of Martin Luther again, Gittel must find the courage within herself to leave her King Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the family behind. il. Bates, Amy June. [IL 5-8] 40 pages Abrams 2019 E civil rights movement. il. Eliopoulos, Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial (AR) 21.46 2016 323-B (AR) 19.36 Noble, Trinka Hakes 636310 I Am Rosa Parks. “We can all be heroes” is the message in 677956 Fist For Joe Louis And Me. In Depression-era Detroit, Gordy this picture book biography of a civil rights legend. il. Eliopoulos, and Ira, one African-American and one German-Jewish, bond Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial 2014 323-B (AR/RC) 20.06 over a shared interest in boxing as America awaits the rematch 636314 I Am Sacagawea. Introduces our first Native American between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling. il. Tadgell, Nicole. [IL 6-8] hero: Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis 31 pages Sleeping Bear Press 2019 E 21.46 and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. il. Eliopoulos, Nobleman, Marc Tyler Chris. [IL 5-8] 40 pages Dial 2017 978-B (AR/RC) 20.06 678209 Brave Like My Brother. When Charlie’s older brother Joe is 636316 I Am Sonia Sotomayor. A fun biography of Sonia called up in 1942, Charlie learns about the tedium and dangers Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. il. Eliopoulos, of war through Joe’s letters--and his brother’s bravery in dealing Chris. [IL 6-8] 40 pages Dial 2018 347-B (AR/RC) 19.36 with a spy as D-Day approaches, finally gives Charlie the strength Messner, Kate to stand up to the local bully. [IL 7-10] 104 pages Scholastic 2016 639761 Attack On Pearl Harbor. This time Ranger, the time- Fic (AR/RC) 20.06 travelling golden retriever, finds himself transported to the deck 678408 Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941, where he rescues the II Story. In this important and moving true story of reconciliation young sailor Ben Hansen who is badly burned when the ship after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot explodes--and there is a Japanese-American boy and girl in a bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to rowboat who also need his help to find their father amid the chaos do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize. il. Iwai, Melissa. of the attack. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] 114 pages Scholastic [IL 6-8] 40 pages Clarion 2018 940 (AR/RC) 21.46 2020 Fic 27.06 Nolan, Janet 639809 Escape From The Twin Towers. Ranger the time-travelling 679010 Seven And A Half Tons Of Steel. Following the events of golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has Here is the story of what the Navy did with it. il. Gonzalez, Thomas. arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September [IL 6-8] 35 pages Peachtree 2016 623 (AR/RC) 21.44 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth- Nolan, Nina graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage, guide 678706 Mahalia Jackson: Walking With Kings And Queens. A them to safety, and hopefully reunite them with Risha’s mother picture book biography about Mahalia Jackson’s rise to becoming who works on the ninety-first floor. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] the Queen of Gospel. il. Holyfield, John. [IL 5-8] 32 pages Amistad 109 pages Scholastic 2020 Fic 27.06 2015 782-B (AR) 21.46 639795 Long Road To Freedom. This time the mysterious box that Nolen, Jerdine Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland 678702 Freedom Bird. In the antebellum South, two siblings plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way west toward freedom. il. Ransome, James. [IL 5-9] 32 pages Simon to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse 2020 E 21.46 is sold to a plantation further South. il. McMorris, Kelley. [IL 7-10] Nuchi, Adah 131 pages Scholastic 2016 Fic (AR/RC) 14.17 683995 God Bless America: The Story Of An Immigrant Named Irving Miller, David Lee Berlin. A picture book about songwriter Irving Berlin and how his 644536 Cat Who Lived With Anne Frank. Mouschi the cat relates experience as a Jewish immigrant inspired him to compose the the experiences of Anne Frank and seven other people who hid patriotic anthem “God Bless America.” il. Polivka, Rob. [IL 4-8] 40 from Nazis in a secret annex over a factory in Amsterdam during pages Disney/Hyperion 2018 782-B 21.46 the Holocaust. Includes facts about the Holocaust and about Parsons, Karyn Anne Frank. il. Baddeley, Elizabeth. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Philomel 702322 Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman’s Dreams Took Flight. The 2019 E 21.46 story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn Mochizuki, Ken her pilot’s license. il. Christie, R. Gregory. [IL 4-8] 48 pages Little 650570 Baseball Saved Us. A Japanese American boy learns 2020 629-B 22.16 to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an Pimentel, Annette Bay internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps 718235 Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed him after the war is over. il. Lee, Dom. [IL 7-9] 32 pages Lee & Low His Plans, And Helped Cook Up The National Park Service. The true 2018 Fic 15.47 story of a Chinese American mountain man who fed thirty people Moss, Marissa for ten days in the wilderness--and influenced the creation of the 661608 Barbed Wire Baseball. A true story about baseball set in National Park Service. il. Lo, Rich. [IL 6-9] 40 pages Charlesbridge the Japanese internment camps of WWII. il. Shimizu, Yuko. [IL 2016 641-B 20.74 6-10] 39 pages Abrams 2013 796 (AR/RC) 22.84 Pincus, Meeg Myers, Walter Dean 718900 Miep And The Most Famous Diary: The Woman Who 665986 Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History. A picture Rescued Anne Frank’s Diary. When the Frank family and others are book biography of the great Frederick Douglass, a self-educated found and arrested during World War II, Miep Gies hides young slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. il. Cooper, Anne’s papers from the Nazis and later is instrumental in having Floyd. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Harper 2017 973-B (AR/RC) 21.46 her beloved friend’s diary published. il. Solano, Jordi. [IL 6-9] 37 Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux pages Sleeping Bear Press 2019 940-B 21.46 670273 Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore. Powell, Patricia Hruby Imagines the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, 729810 Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker. An founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the illustrated biography in verse of Josephine Baker, a dancer, singer, perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like comedienne, and early African American artist. il. Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there. il. 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[IL 4-8] 31 pages Atheneum 2019 E who played the trombone and composed and arranged music (AR/RC) 21.46 for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. il. Rappaport, Doreen Morrison, Frank. [IL 6-10] 33 pages Lee & Low 2014 788-B (AR) 739631 Frederick’s Journey: The Life Of Frederick Douglass. A 22.14 portrait of celebrated human-rights activist Frederick Douglass. Schmidt, Gary D. il. Ladd, London. [IL 6-8] 41 pages Disney/Jump at the Sun 2015 786844 So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom. 973-B (AR/RC) 21.46 A picture book biography of a giant in the struggle for civil rights. Reid, Megan il. Minter, Daniel. [IL 4-8] 48 pages Roaring Brook 2018 306-B (AR) 744954 Althea Gibson: The Story Of Tennis’ Fleet-Of-Foot Girl. A 22.16 picture book biography about Althea Gibson, the first black Schubert, Leda Grand Slam tennis champion at Wimbledon. il. Freeman, Laura. [IL 790093 Trailblazer: The Story Of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson. 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When Wu Chien Shiung was born in pages Harper 2018 520-C (AR/RC) 21.46 China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents Sieg, Annie named their daughter “Courageous Hero” and encouraged her 817090 Mama Mable’s All-Gal Big Band Jazz Extravaganza! Mama love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at Mable’s racially integrated, all-female band travels the country home and racism in the United States of America to become what during World War II, bringing joy and healing to the home front. Newsweek magazine called the “Queen of Physics” for her work Includes author’s note. il. [IL 4-8] 33 pages Make Me a World 2019 on how atoms split. il. Huang, Rebecca. [IL 5-9] 42 pages Sterling E 21.46 2019 530-B (AR) 20.74 Simons, Lisa M. B. Rockliff, Mara 821688 Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor And Businesswoman. Madam 761240 Born To Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Life In Jazz. The C.J. Walker wasn’t just an inventor. She was also a political activist story of “Hot Miss Lil” Hardin Armstrong, legendary jazz pianist, and businesswoman. She not only fought for civil rights, but composer, and bandleader-and a female pioneer of the music became one of the most successful African-American business stage. il. Wood, Michele. [IL 6-9] 32 pages Calkins Creek 2018 786- owners ever. il. [IL 6-8] 24 pages Capstone 2018 338-B (AR) B (AR/RC) 21.44 21.27 761253 Me And Momma And Big John. Little John is proud of his Slade, Suzanne mother’s work as a stonecutter for a cathedral called “Big John,” 823765 Exquisite: The Poetry And Life Of Gwendolyn Brooks. A but struggles to understand the importance of spending so much picture book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, time on one stone that no one will know Momma cut. il. Low, the first black American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. il. William. [IL 6-8] 32 pages Candlewick 2012 E (AR/RC) 6.50* Cabrera, Cozbi A. [IL 6-8] 48 pages Abrams 2020 811-B 21.46 Rockwell, Anne F. 823767 Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying 761420 Hey, Charleston!: The True Story Of The Jenkins Orphanage Harlem Globetrotters. The true story of the high-flying Harlem Band. In 1891, Rev. Daniel J. Jenkins, a former slave and orphan Globetrotters--the team that changed basketball forever. il. [IL himself, founded an orphanage for young African American 4-8] 40 pages Little 2020 796-C 21.46 children in Charleston. But that was only the beginning. il. Smith, Charles R. Bootman, Colin. [IL 7-9] 33 pages Carolrhoda 2013 784 (AR/RC) 831016 28 Days: Moments In Black History That Changed The 20.74 World. A picture book look at many of the men and women who 761536 Spy Called James: The True Story Of James Lafayette, revolutionized life for African Americans throughout history. il. Revolutionary War Double Agent. A biography of James Armistead Evans, Shane. 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Ransome, Pennsylvania are about to change his life forever. Does he have James. [IL 4-8] 34 pages Bloomsbury 2018 323 (AR) 21.46 what it takes to survive the battle of Gettysburg? il. Dawson, Scott. 924773 Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself To Freedom. The life of a [IL 7-10] 89 pages Scholastic 2013 Fic (AR/RC) 14.05 man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. il. Wood, 872570 I Survived The Japanese Tsunami, 2011. During the heart Michele. [IL 7-9] 54 pages Candlewick 2020 973-B 21.46 stopping events of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, 924769 By And By: Charles Albert Tindley, The Father Of Gospel one boy struggles to make it out alive. il. Dawson, Scott. [IL 8-10] Music. A picture book biography about gospel composer and 83 pages Scholastic 2013 Fic (AR/RC) 14.05 preacher Charles Albert Tindley. il. Collier, Bryan. 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This poetic, nonfiction story joined an abolitionist organization, raised money, planned about a well-known piece of African American history captures rescues, and organized assistance for slaves who escaped north a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances to freedom. He also collected their stories and helped reunite and demonstrates how New Orleans’ Congo Square was truly separated families. il. [IL 6-10] 38 pages Peachtree 2020 326-B freedom’s heart. il. Christie, R. Gregory. [IL 4-8] 32 pages Little Bee 22.16 2016 976 (AR/RC) 21.46 Tonatiuh, Duncan 924786 Gordon Parks: How The Photographer Captured Black And 884826 Danza!: Amalia Hernandez And El Ballet Folklorico De White America. The story of an African-American photographer Mexico. The inspirational story of dancer Amalia Hernandez, who went on to become the first black director in Hollywood. il. founder of Mexico’s Folkloric Ballet. il. [IL 6-10] 29 pages Abrams Christoph, James. 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