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Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia
Black Boy Joy is a collection of stories that shows young black children experiencing black culture and life. Seventeen authors provide...
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Jul 30, 20222 min read
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This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
This Day in June is a book about celebrating LGBTQ pride month in June. The story begins with the start of a parade that shows falling...
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Jul 30, 20222 min read
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Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
The story follows a teen named Lisa wanting to write a paper for her psychology college class. However, she wants to write the best paper...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 30, 20222 min read
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Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Amal is a sixteen-year-old Australian Palestinian Muslim living in the Melbourne suburbs and a student at a private school. One day she...
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Jul 30, 20222 min read
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Tea with Milk by Allen Say
Masako and her parents live in San Francisco, but her parents are homesick for Japan, so they decide to move back to their homeland....
Stevens Kahn
Jul 29, 20222 min read
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The Name Jar by Author and Illustrator Yangsook Choi
Unhei recently left her home in Korea to live in the United States. On her first day at school, she is asked her name, but she is too...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 29, 20222 min read
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A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Tree-ear is a 10-year-old orphan who lives under a bridge in the village of Ch'ulp'o in 12th century Korea. He lives with Crane-Man, who...
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Jul 29, 20222 min read
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Rani Patel In Full Effect by Sonia Patel
Rani is a sixteen-year-old Gujarati Indian teen living on the Hawaiin island of Moloka'i with her mother and father. However, she catches...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 29, 20222 min read
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The Walter Lady by Alice B. McGinty and Illustrated by Shonto Begay
This story follows the separate lives of Cody and Darlene Arviso on a Navajo reservation. The school-age children go to school while Cody...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle
This story follows Isaac, a ten-year-old, and his family, who are Choctaw Native Americans that live in Mississippi in 1830. In quick...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Illustrated by Ellen Forney
This story follows the life of a fourteen-year-old named Arnold Spirit, otherwise known as Junior. Junior lives with his family on the...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac
Cal is a twelve-year-old traveling with his father as a hobo during the Great Depression in 1932. Cal's mother died, and his father lost...
Stevens Kahn
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales
Viva Frida is a picture book about Frida Kahlo for readers between the ages of 4 and 8. Readers will notice Spanish words with their...
Stevens Kahn
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
Piedad "Piddy" Sanchez is a 10th grader and has only been at her new school for five weeks, but she knows one thing, Yaqui Delgado wants...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
Julia Reyes is a 15-year-old that is grieving because her sister was recently killed by a bus. Julia's parents are undocumented...
Stevens Kahn
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico! Americas' Sproutings by Pat Mora and Illustrator Rafael Lopez
Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico! Americas' Sproutings is an assemblage of Haiku poems about vegetables and fruits native to the Americas. As the...
Stevens Kahn
Jun 24, 20222 min read
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Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena and illustrator Christian Robinson
Milo is a boy riding the subway with his older sister. The young boy is excited and worried, but to calm his nerves, he starts studying...
Stevens Kahn
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Tristan Strong is a teen who recently lost his best friend Eddie to a bus accident. Tristan is given Eddie's journal, where they used to...
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Jun 20, 20222 min read
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Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Piecing Me Together is about an African American high school adolescent girl named Jade Butler from Oregon. She lives in North Portland,...
Stevens Kahn
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder and Illustrator Jerry Pinkney
Minty is a fiction book about Harriet Tubman growing up on a plantation before she became the conductor of the Underground Railroad. The...
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Jun 20, 20222 min read
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