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Diversity in Kid's Literature March 2024
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Picture Books and Early Readers
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Chapter Books & Graphic Novels
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Salma Joins the Team
by Danny Ramadan
Salma dreams of becoming a champion swimmer like her hero, Olympian Yusra Mardini. So when she signs up for her school's swim club, it feels like her dreams could come true . . . until mean comments from older girls at the pool and women at her mosque spark body image and self-esteem issues. But with the help of her close friends and family--the team that always has her back--Salma is ready to claim her place in the pool.
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The Circuit : A Graphic Memoir
by Francisco Jiménez
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
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One big open sky
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
In 1879, three women—Lettie, her mother, Sylvia, and young teacher Philomena—who are free from slavery but bound by poverty, access to opportunity and patriarchal social structures, head westward on a perilous wagon journey that could cost them everything they have—including their lives.
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Warrior on the Mound
by Sandra W. Headen
1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch, and meet Mr. Satchel Paige--the best pitcher in Negro League baseball. But when he and his teammates "trespass" on their town's whites-only baseball field for a practice, the resulting racial outrage burns like a brushfire through the entire community, threatening Cato, his family, and every one of his friends.There's only one way this can end without violence: It has to be settled on the mound, between the white team and the Black. Winner takes all.
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Blue Stars 1 : The Vice Principal Problem
by Kekla Magoon
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
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The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
by Anna Rose Johnson
After losing her father at sea, spirited French-Ojibwe orphan Lucy is sent to live with the Martins, a large Anishinaabe family living on a lighthouse in the middle of stormy Lake Superior, where she hopes to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.
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Making friends : together forever
by Kristen Gudsnuk
When the new hit TV show My Magical Best Friend stars her magical best friend, Madison, Dany realizes Madison is dropping hints for Dany to rescue her, but with no magical sketchbook at her fingertips, what can she do?
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