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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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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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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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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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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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Letters from Rifka

Square Fish
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

Square Fish
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

Square Fish
Voices that must be heard. Voices we must never forget.
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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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Hachiko Waits

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

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

Square Fish
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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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

Square Fish
"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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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.