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Ira's Shakespeare Dream
By Glenda Armand, Floyd Cooper
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By Glenda Armand, Floyd Cooper
The inspiring biography of Ira Aldridge, a Black actor who overcame racism to become one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century.

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Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
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Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
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Bilingual English/Spanish. In this cheerful book, a determined Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and ventures into her community to find someone who can fix the instrument, leading her to discover his legacy as a mariachi player.

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Mommy's Having a Watermelon
By Kim Adlerman, Danny Adlerman, Megan Halsey
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Mommy's Having a Watermelon
By Kim Adlerman, Danny Adlerman, Megan Halsey
The story of a girl who mistakes her mother’s pregnancy for a watermelon growing in her mother’s stomach, as a result of a swallowed seed.

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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
By Amy Lee-Tai, Felicia Hoshino
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By Amy Lee-Tai, Felicia Hoshino
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Bilingual English/Japanese. A young girl finds things to be joyful about in the Topaz Internment Camp.

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Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
By Isabel Quintero
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Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
By Isabel Quintero
In this groundbreaking William C. Morris Award winner for a YA debut, Gabi's life is a mess--her family, her friends, her attempts at a love life--but writing helps, especially since it turns out she's pretty good at poetry.

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Pig Park
By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez
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By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez
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Masi's barrio is wasting away. An entrepreneur comes to the rescue. But why? And his son has nice soft lips.

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Twenty-two Cents
Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
By Paula Yoo, Jamel Akib
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Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
By Paula Yoo, Jamel Akib
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A biography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending.

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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
A biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women, of any race, played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.

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The Hula-Hoopin' Queen
By Thelma Lynne Godin, Vanessa Brantley-Newton
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The Hula-Hoopin' Queen
By Thelma Lynne Godin, Vanessa Brantley-Newton
A spunky African American girl has a hula-hooping competition with her friends in Harlem, and soon everyone in the neighborhood--young and old alike--joins in on the fun.

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Drift
By Megan Hutchins
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Drift
By Megan Hutchins
Tenjat joins a dangerous defense to protect his island home from the monsters who threaten it in this fresh YA fantasy inspired by Mayan and Indian folklore.

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Rebellion (Tankborn #3)
A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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Rebellion (Tankborn #3)
A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
In a world where half the population is genetically engineered, what does it mean to be human? The acclaimed TANKBORN trilogy rushes to a thrilling conclusion with Rebellion!

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From North to South / Del Norte al Sur
By René Colato Laínez, Joe Cepeda
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From North to South / Del Norte al Sur
By René Colato Laínez, Joe Cepeda
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Bilingual English/Spanish. This nuanced picture book tackles the difficult and timely subject of family separation and deportation.

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Jouanah
A Hmong Cinderella
By Dr. Jewell Reinhart Coburn, Anne Sibley O'Brien
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A Hmong Cinderella
By Dr. Jewell Reinhart Coburn, Anne Sibley O'Brien
Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella is sure to shine as one of the most beautiful and moving versions of Cinderella from around the world.

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Drum, Chavi, Drum! / ¡Toca, Chavi, Toca!
By Mayra Lazara Dole, Tonel
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Drum, Chavi, Drum! / ¡Toca, Chavi, Toca!
By Mayra Lazara Dole, Tonel
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Who says girls can't play drums? The beat of Chavi's congas livens up her entire neighborhood. When she's not picked to drum in Miami's Calle Ocho festival, she decides to do something about it!

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Moony Luna / Luna, Lunita Lunera
By Jorge Argueta, Elizabeth Gomez
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Moony Luna / Luna, Lunita Lunera
By Jorge Argueta, Elizabeth Gomez
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Bilingual English/Spanish. A loving tale about a young girl afraid to go to school for the first time.

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Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y la llorona
By Gloria Anzaldúa, Maya Gonzalez
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Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y la llorona
By Gloria Anzaldúa, Maya Gonzalez
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Bilingual English/Spanish. Gloria Anzaldúa uniquely reinterprets the famous Mexican legend of la Llorona.

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Lend a Hand
Poems About Giving
By John Frank, London Ladd
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Poems About Giving
By John Frank, London Ladd
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A collection of original poems centered on giving and spontaneous acts of kindness, which also incorporate larger themes of community, intergenerational relationships, young mentors, and care for the environment.

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Angel's Kite / La estrella de Angel
By Alberto Blanco, Rodolfo Morales
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Angel's Kite / La estrella de Angel
By Alberto Blanco, Rodolfo Morales
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By award-winning Mexican author Alberto Blanco, comes the story of how a young kite maker mysteriously brings back the missing church bell to his beloved town.

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Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel
By Anthony D. Robles, Carl Angel
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By Anthony D. Robles, Carl Angel
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In this bilingual English-Tagalog story set in the US, Lakas, an all-American boy of Filipino descent, helps his new friends fight eviction from their home .

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This Land is My Land
By George Littlechild
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This Land is My Land
By George Littlechild
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Through his own words and paintings, acclaimed Native artist George Littlechild takes us back in time to the first meeting between his Plains Cree ancestors and the first European settlers in North America.

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