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Diversity in Kid's Literature August 2022
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Picture Books and Early Readers
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Wishing upon the same stars
by Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
A poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows Arab American Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship and herself.
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In the key of us
by Mariama Lockington
Brought together during summer music camp where they are the only two Black girls, Andi and Zora slowly begin to connect and soon come to realize what has been missing from their lives - each other.
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The do-over
by Jennifer Torres
During the pandemic, sisters Raquel and Lucinda are forced to spend the lockdown at their fathers house where they are faced with his new girlfriend and daughter, setting in motion a chain of events that could tear them all apart.
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The Gift of the Little People
by William Dumas
To save his people from certain death, Kâhâsiw must overcome doubt to follow the traditional teachings of the Asinikaw Īthiniwak and trust in the gift of the Little People.
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Every bird a prince
by Jenn Reese
When a bird asks soon-to-be 13-year-old Eren Evers for help while Eren is taking a bike ride in the woods, she embraces the challenge of defending the bird kingdom from the dangerous Frostfangs while also juggling a school social life in order to discover what it truly means to be herself in a world that is eager to define her path.
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Aviva vs. the Dybbuk
by Mari Lowe
As tensions escalate in the Jewish community of Beacon with incidents of vandalism and a swastika carved into new concrete poured near the synagogue, so does the tension grow between Aviva and Kayla and the girls at their school, and so do the actions of the dybbuk grow worse. Could real harm be coming Aviva's way? And is it somehow related to the 'accident' that took her father years ago?
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The lucky ones
by Linda Williams Jackson
In 1967, when his teacher loans him a copy of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 11-year-old Ellis Earl Brown is amazed to encounter a family worse off than his own and wonders if happy endings only come in books.
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Ellen outside the lines
by A. J. Sass
When a school trip to Barcelona to reconnect with her best friend doesnt go as planned, Ellen, a neurodivergent 13-year-old, must expand her horizons as she makes new friends and learns to let go of old ones.
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