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Ghosts for Breakfast
By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
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Ghosts for Breakfast
By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
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When the Troublesome Triplets complain that they have seen ghosts in Farmer Tanaka's field, Papa sets off with his son to hunt the ghosts in this fun story set in 1920s California.

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Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
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Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
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A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby plantation to visit him.

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¡Béisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
By Jonah Winter
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¡Béisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
By Jonah Winter
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In this fascinating and colorfully written collection of profiles, author/illustrator Jonah Winter gives us a guide to Latino heroes, including little known pioneers of the sport.

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Get Set! Swim!
By Jeannine Atkins, Hector Viveros Lee
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Get Set! Swim!
By Jeannine Atkins, Hector Viveros Lee
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The day of the big swim meet has finally arrived, and Jessenia is excited, but a bit worried too.

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Aani and the Tree Huggers
By Jeannine Atkins, Venantius Pinto
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Aani and the Tree Huggers
By Jeannine Atkins, Venantius Pinto
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A village girl in India inspires the women around her to save their beloved forest.

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Allie's Basketball Dream
By Barbara Barber, Darryl Ligasan
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Allie's Basketball Dream
By Barbara Barber, Darryl Ligasan
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Allie's story of self-determination is one that young athletes, both boys and girls, will recognize. Perfect for anyone who has experienced the ups and downs of practicing and playing hard, Allie's Basketball Dream is a spirited tribute to perseverance.

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Jay and Ben
By Lulu Delacre, Katharine Swanson
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Jay and Ben
By Lulu Delacre, Katharine Swanson
A child-friendly interactive book that can be used in a variety of ways to promote the educational progress and growth of children with a wide array of abilities.

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Seaside Dream
By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
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Seaside Dream
By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
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In this tender story of immigration, a young girl finds a way to give her grandmother the perfect present and the courage to plan a trip to her home country, Cape Verde.

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Etched in Clay
The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
By Andrea Cheng
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The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
By Andrea Cheng
The acclaimed biography-in-verse about the life and times of Dave, an enslaved potter who inscribed his works with short poems during the years leading up to the Civil War.

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Diverse Energies
By Tobias Buckell, Joe Monti, 11 Speculative Fiction Authors
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Diverse Energies
By Tobias Buckell, Joe Monti, 11 Speculative Fiction Authors
A collection of dystopian short stories featuring diverse main characters and by authors of color.

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Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall
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Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall
In this young adult retelling of The Odyssey from award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall, Odilia and her four sisters journey to Mexico to return a dead man to his family and encounter magical creatures along the way.

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The East-West House
Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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A biography of biracial sculptor/designer/landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, focusing on his childhood in Japan and the building of an "east-west" house that gave shape to his lifelong creative approach.

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Silent Star
The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
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The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
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The biography of William Ellsworth Hoy, the first deaf player to have a successful career in professional and Major League baseball.

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It Jes' Happened
When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
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When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate, R. Gregory Christie
The inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban life in Alabama.

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Baby Flo
Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
By Alan Schroeder, Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
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Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
By Alan Schroeder, Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
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This spirited biography introduces young readers to the early life of Florence "Baby Flo" Mills, an internationally renowned entertainer of the Harlem Renaissance era who began her career as a child.

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Irena's Jars of Secrets
By Marcia Vaughan Crews, Ron Mazellan
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Irena's Jars of Secrets
By Marcia Vaughan Crews, Ron Mazellan
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A picture book biography of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped save nearly 2500 Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II.

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The Blood Lie
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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The Blood Lie
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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Years before WWII begins, latent hostility against the Jews erupts in a blood lie when Daisy, a young Gentile girl from Massena, New York, disappears in the woods.

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Only the Mountains Do Not Move
A Maasai Story of Culture and Conservation
By Jan Reynolds
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A Maasai Story of Culture and Conservation
By Jan Reynolds
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A photographic essay about contemporary Maasai--the changes in lifestyle, land, and farming practices they face and how they are adapting to those changes.

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Tankborn (Tankborn #1)
A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered enslaved non-human (GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and in the process find out what it means to be human.

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Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac
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Wolf Mark
By Joseph Bruchac
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Luke King, whose father is a black-ops infiltrator, uses the skills his father taught him to figure out his family's paranormal secret and save his kidnapped father and his own friends.

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