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Spellbound

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Raven Jefferson never expected she’d be a mother at sixteen like her best friend, Aisha. Now she’s stuck being just another high school dropout, a project girl...
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Diamond Willow

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Using diamond-shaped poems, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family.
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The Way a Door Closes

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An award winning, poignant novel in poems about a family coping with a father’s disappearance
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The Poet Slave of Cuba
A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano

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A lyrical account of the life of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet slave of Cuba, in verse
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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

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Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...
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The Surrender Tree
Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

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The Surrender Tree is a Newbery Honor winning, lyrical history in poems, and this edition has the Spanish and English text available in one book....
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Standing Against the Wind

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Patrice dreams of a first-class education, but right now she’s just got to survive the walk to school. Standing Against the Wind is the 2007 winner of the...
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Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

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Ying Chang Compestine’s pseudo-biographical story of growing up during the reign of Chairman Mao is a beautifully written, compelling story of a girl with the...
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Junebug

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A boy. A birthday. A dream of a better life far, far away.
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We Are Witnesses
Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

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Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.

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The Empty Pot

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An IRA-CBC Children's Choice.An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists."
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Letters from Rifka

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A deeply felt, deeply personal story of immigration from beloved Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse.
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Knots on a Counting Rope

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In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness. "A rich...
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I, Juan de Pareja

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The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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Hachiko Waits

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The loyalty and devotion of a dog has no bounds.
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Anansi the Spider
A Tale from the Ashanti

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Anansi the Spider is a 1973 Caldecott Honor Book.
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Tortillitas Para Mama
And Other Nursery Rhymes, Spanish and English

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Young children will treasure this collection of Latin American nursery rhymes. Preserved through oral tradition, these rhymes have been passed on from...
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The Treasure

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"Rich full-color illustrations provide a fresh and vigorous interpretation of the familiar story of a poor man who, inspired by a recurring dream, journeys to...
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It Could Always Be Worse
A Yiddish Folk Tale

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Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the children...
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Ten Mile Day
And the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

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On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's...
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Night Boat to Freedom

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This compelling story, powerfully and poignantly illustrated, is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love.
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Circle Unbroken

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In teaching her granddaughter the craft of sewing baskets, a grandmother tells the story of their ancestors and passes along memories of struggle and freedom. ...
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The Cow-Tail Switch
And Other West African Stories

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17 stories make up this unique collection of folktales brought to life by illustrations throughout the text.
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Escape from Saigon
How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

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An unforgettable true story of an orphan caught in the midst of war Over a million South Vietnamese children were orphaned by the Vietnam War. This...