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Same, Same But Different

Henry Holt and Co.
Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have...
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Then

Henry Holt and Co.
Felix and Zelda have escaped the train to the death camp, but where do they go now? They're two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland. Danger lies at every turn...
  
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Pablo Neruda
Poet of the People

Henry Holt and Co.
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with...
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The Poet Slave of Cuba
A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano

Square Fish
A lyrical account of the life of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet slave of Cuba, in verse
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The Way a Door Closes

Square Fish
An award winning, poignant novel in poems about a family coping with a father’s disappearance
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Once

Henry Holt and Co.
Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and...
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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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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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Building on Nature
The Life of Antoni Gaudi

Henry Holt and Co.
In a small village in Spain lives a boy named Antoni Gaudí. His home is in Catalonia, a place of jagged mountain peaks and silvery olive trees, splashed...
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Tropical Secrets
Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Henry Holt and Co.
Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has...

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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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The Empty Pot

Square Fish
An IRA-CBC Children's Choice.An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists."
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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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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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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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Two Ways to Count to Ten
A Liberian Folktale

Henry Holt and Co.
The noted actress retells this lively, well-paced and involving version of a Liberian folktale.
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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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Everett Anderson's Goodbye

Henry Holt and Co.
Everett Anderson's Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father's death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett's...
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Uptown

Henry Holt and Co.
Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier discovers the vibrant world of Harlem, New York, as seen through the eyes of a little boy "Uptown...
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From Here to There

Henry Holt and Co.
A little girl travels from the comforts of her own home to the far reaches of the universe. The journey begins in Maria's house and then moves outward to the...
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Visiting Langston

Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
A wonderful picture book introduction to a legendary American writer It’s a special day when a little girl and her father go to visit the house where...
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Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile

Henry Holt and Co.
Mrs. Chicken has to think fast to outwit hungry Crocodile, who wants to eat her for dinner. One morning Mrs. Chicken took her bath in a puddle. “Cluck,...