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Norwood Black Joy Picture Books 2024
Norwood Black Joy Picture Books 2024
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Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names.
3) White teeth
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English
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A strikingly clever and funny book, filled with a passion for ideas and language.
4) Me gusta
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English
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"In the affirmative and encouraging Me Gusta, acclaimed author and illustrator Angela Dominguez combines Spanish and English in a poetic and touching story of family, reminding us that through the adventures and the heartbreak, love conquers all and transcends language."--Amazon.com.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares"--
This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings...
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Poppy's big dreams lead her to Paris for the world games ice skating championship. Nervous but ever courageous and supported by her family she embarks upon the adventure head-on. Poppy meets a snowboarding panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a crane and a Kangaroo. She begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart.
9) Healthy kids
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In this new title from The Global Fund for Children, readers learn the different ways kids from around the world can stay healthy. Photographs showcase children from Afghanistan washing their hands, a team of boys from Australia playing sports, a group of girls from Panama wearing their seatbelts. There are many ways kids can practice healthy living, no matter where they live. In a foreword by Melinda French Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill...
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"The five friends -- Martin, Sally, Pedro, Nick and Yulee -- are best friends, but they each have their own unique heritage. Their class is hosting a Heritage Festival, where they will celebrate the customs and traditions of people all over the world. Join the friends as they learn about many different traditional foods, music, clothing and crafts in this kid-friendly introduction to family heritage."--
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"This is the fourth story from the series "World of Kids Emotions". It is aimed at teaching children the importance of diversity, helping them to accept themselves and others as well as celebrating all of our beatiful differences." --provided by the author.
"Little Nick felt worried about his friends not accepting him because of his new reading glasses. Luckily, while interacting with his peers he realized that all people have differences that make...
15) Whoever you are
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English
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Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.
16) All of us
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Friends can help us understand the world and ourselves, opening our eyes to unique cultures and ideas. In a story that travels the globe, it's easy to see how the world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different" --
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Candlewick Press
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2016.
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English
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Join Nellie, Gus, baby Jake, and their parents at Funland as they go on rides, watch performers, and play games along with many other children and grown-ups. As they enjoy their excursion, they notice that people are the same as one another in lots of ways, and different in lots of ways too. Helps children realize why it's important to treat others the way they want to be treated whether a person is a lot like you or different from you, a good friend...
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Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Join in a multicultural celebration of unity and diversity friendships all around the world as we read and sing along with joy, love, and peace!"--Jacket.
An illustrated text for the adapted spiritual song with pictures of children from different lands.
19) Holy enchilada!
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Hank Zipzer volume 6
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe.
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Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The Social Justice Standards from Teaching Tolerance are a proven framework for developing anti-bias in students. In Respecting Diversity, students learn to engage and create relationships with those who both look similar to and different from themselves. Readers will see the domain of diversity in action and learn best practices as they interact with others--and themselves. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to think, create, guess,...
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