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Paiute Princess
The Story of Sarah Winnemucca

Frances Foster Books
Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her...
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Spellbound

Square Fish
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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Silhouetted by the Blue

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
After the death of her mother, seventh-grader Serena finds herself facing the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother, Henry, all...
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Diamond Willow

Square Fish
Using diamond-shaped poems, Helen Frost tells the moving story of Willow and her family.
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Claudette Colvin
Twice Toward Justice

Square Fish
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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There Are No Scary Wolves

Frances Foster Books
What exactly is it like outside when Mom isn’t around? Are there . . . scary wolves? When a little boy ventures out of the house with his mother, he’s in for...
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Finding My Place

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
After moving to an affluent suburb of Denver in 1975, ninth-grader Tiphanie, the only Black girl in her new high school, feels out of place until she befriends...
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Under a Red Sky
Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania

Frances Foster Books
Eva Zimmermann is eight years old, and she has just discovered she is Jewish. Such is the life of an only child living in postwar Bucharest, a city that is...
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Is It Night or Day?

Melanie Kroupa Books
It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon:...
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Standing Against the Wind

Square Fish
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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I, Juan de Pareja

Square Fish
The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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Junebug

Square Fish
A boy. A birthday. A dream of a better life far, far away.
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It Could Always Be Worse
A Yiddish Folk Tale

Square Fish
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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My Name Is Yoon

Frances Foster Books
Getting to feel at home in a new country Yoon’s name means Shining Wisdom, and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her...
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Leon's Story

Sunburst Paperbacks
"Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!" -- Nikki Giovanni I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my...
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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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How I Learned Geography

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father...
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A Day of Pleasure
Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Sunburst Paperbacks
An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.
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Stories for Children

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and...
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Crow and Weasel

Sunburst Paperbacks
"A brilliantly written and totally original New World adventure." - Jean Craighead George Long ago, when people and animals spoke the same language, two...
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Night Boat to Freedom

Square Fish
This compelling story, powerfully and poignantly illustrated, is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love.
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In Defiance of Hitler
The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately...
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Upon the Head of the Goat
A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Sunburst Paperbacks
Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.
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Escape from Saigon
How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy

Square Fish
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...