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90. The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang, ill. Khoa Le. Kalia’s grandmother has one tooth, but 97. Darwin’s Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and her smile is the most beautiful her granddaughter the Search for Evolution by Christiane Dorion, has ever seen. A moving picture book memoir filled ill. Harry Tennant. Living a life of adventure and with jaw-dropping art about growing up with little exploration, this canny scientist helped Darwin money in a Hmong-American home. Call Number: unlock the secrets of evolution, though his x305.9069 Yang.K name is practically lost to history today. Call Number: xBiog Walla.A Dorio.C 91. A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story by Sharon Langley and Amy Nathan, ill. Floyd 98. The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Cooper. Sharon Langley looks back at 1963, the Girl Who Soared Above Expectations by year she became the first African-American child Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch. The long to ride the carousel in Baltimore’s Gwynn Oak tradition of Kazakh eagle training has always Amusement Park. Call Number: x305.8 Langl.S been handed down from father to son. Now meet Aisholpan, the girl who lives to defy 101 92. Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb! by Veronica expectations. Call Number: xBiog Aisho.N Chambers, ill. Rachelle Baker. “A catalyst for Aisho.N change in America” gets her due in this riveting, inspirational, magnificent biography of a figure 99. A Sporting Chance: How Ludwig Guttmann that so much more than just the first Black woman Created the Paralympic Games by Lori to make a bid for the presidency. Call Number: Alexander, ill. Allan Drummond. In the mid- xBiog Chish.S Chamb.V 1900s, a time when disabled people with spinal GREAT injuries had little hope, doctor Ludwig 93. Swish! The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, Guttmann discovered ways to help them not High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters by Suzanne only survive but thrive. His efforts led to the Slade, ill. Don Tate. “Skilled athletes, expert creation of the wildly popular Paralympic players, and electrifying performers all rolled into Games. Call Number: xBiog Guttm.L Alexa.L one.” Meet the ballplayers that broke racial barriers even as they went on to live up to their globe 100. The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love BOOKS trotting name. Call Number: x796.323 Slade.S & Truth, edited by Wade and Cheryl Willis Hudson. Thirty excellent authors and artists 94. Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin. From from different backgrounds talk about how to kids to the cosmic web of the universe, gorgeous be anti-racist in a series of powerful short watercolors encompass the sheer scope and scale essays, stories, poems, and illustrations. Call of everything inside and beyond our own galaxy. Number: x305.8 Talk Call Number: x523.1 Chin.J FOR 101. Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem by Kate Messner. It’s a master of disguise, can swallow an entire baby deer, and is rapidly NONFICTION FOR devouring the Florida natural wildlife. How do you stop an invasive species that’s practically OLDER READERS invisible? These scientists may have found the KIDS 95. All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of answer. Call Number: x597.9678 Messn.K the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat. In 2018, saving twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a Thai cave became a worldwide rescue effort. This account COMMITTEE MEMBERS chronicles how the plan came together and 2020 offers a rewarding Thai perspective along the way. Call Number: x796.525 Soont.C Patricia Alm, Sally Battle, Betsy Bird, Chelsea Elward, Jessica Iverson, Katy Jacob, Hannah 96. The Bird in Me Flies by Sara Lundberg, Johnson, Leigh Kennelly, Kerry Littel, Elacsha translated by B.J. Epstein. Berta may be just a Madison, Judith Mathews, Susan McClelland, COMPILED BY THE STAFF OF farm girl, but she desperately yearns to be an Christina Mendez, Martha Meyer, Jennifer artist. But in 1920s Sweden, a dream like that is Wasilewski Mills, Olivia Mo, Bill Ohms, Julie Rand, EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY impossible . or is it? Call Number: J Lundb.S Reenie Ruckdaeschel, Paula Shapiro, Elizabeth English Steimle, Bridget Sweeney, Luke Thompson, Amy Louise Tripp, Jennifer Wasilewski, and Brian Wilson 101 GREAT BOOKS FOR KIDS 2020 101 GREAT BOOKS FOR KIDS 2020 18. Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan, ill. Anna Bron. Salma, a Syrian refugee living in Vancouver, hopes she can make her mother happy 9. I Talk Like a River by Jordan Scott, ill. Sydney 25. The Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: again by cooking one of her favorite dishes. A lovely Smith. “I wake up each morning with the sounds of A Mesoamerican Creation Myth by Duncan celebration of community and compassion. Call words all around me. And I can't say them all . .” This Tonatiuh. When the gods of Mesoamerica fail Number: JPicture Ramad.D PICTURE BOOKS exquisitely illustrated book tells the tale of a to create human creatures, they give the 19. Smashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman and David stuttering kid who finds comfort in his father’s advice. sacred bones of creation to the lord of the Clemesha, ill. Dan Yaccarino. Who’s looking for Call Number: JPicture Scott.J underworld. Only Quetzalcóatl, the Feathered some serious smash time? Join Mr. Gilly as he Serpent, is brave enough to take back the crashes, tumbles and crumbles a great big building 1. The Barnabus Project by Terry, Eric and Devin 10. My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano, ill. Jillian bones and try again. Call Number: down to smithereens. Expect to read this one out Fan. Barnabus is half mouse, half elephant, and Tamaki. “she is my best friend i think / i’ve never had a x398.208972 Tonat.D loud again and again! 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But is the answer Number: JPicture Brock.M Charming illustrations tell the tale of how a young Zura’s Nana Akua intends to arrive. But with the worth dying for? Call Number: x398.20943 Korean immigrant child’s first day of school goes traditional tribal marks on her face, will Zura’s Morri.J 21. We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, from tragedy to triumph. Call Number: JPicture classmates be nice or be mean? Call Number: JPicture ill. Michaela Goade. A powerful look at the Kim.A Walke.T 27. Tales of the Feathered Serpent: Rise of the Indigenous-led movements in the United States to Halfling King by David Bowles, ill. Charlene stop the oil pipelines from ruining the natural world. 3. Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina, 12. A New Green Day by Antoinette Portis. From a Bowles. Sayam’s just your average half-human Call Number: JPicture Linds.C ill. Sonia Sánchez. What do you do when your “comma in the long, long sentence of the stream” (a boy in this Mayan tale. When he pops out of an “numero uno” best friend is moving away? Daniela tadpole!) to “a black coat slipped around Earth’s egg and is raised by a kind witch, he has no idea 22. Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins- and Evelyn squeeze every bit of fun out of their last shoulders” (night!) simple riddles and breathtaking he’ll soon be challenging a tyrant for his throne. Bigelow, ill. Luisa Uribe. On the first day of her new day in this sweet, hopeful narrative. Call Number: pictures produce a beautiful book. Call Number: Call Number: JGraphic Bowle.D school, no one can pronounce a little girl’s name. JPicture Medin.M JPicture Porti.A Fortunately, her mother has a surefire solution. A 28. Three Billy Goats Buenos by Susan celebration of names of every kind. Call Number: 4. Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael 13. Old Rock (Is Not Boring) by Deb Pilutti. The other Middleton Elya, ill. Miguel Ordóñez. A JPicture Thomp.J Rex. A bunch of cheery robots help readers learn the forest creatures think Old Rock lives a boring life, but beautiful blend of Spanish and English retells difference between facts and opinions in this it astounds them with stories of its surprisingly the classic story of three plump little cabritos colorful, funny, much-needed romp. Call Number: eventful existence. A clever, humorous science and the hungry gigante that wants to munch JPicture Rex.M lesson. Call Number: JPicture Pilut.D them up. Call Number: JPicture Elya.S 5. Friday Night Wrestlefest by J.F. Fox, ill. Micah 14. On Account of the Gum by Adam Rex. Oh no.