November 2020
 
November brings cloudy skies and rainy days but we can still find little ways to be thankful. The books included in this issue of Book Buzz encourage all of us, at every age, to keep a grateful heart. We also highlight books to celebrate Native American Heritage Month which is celebrated every November.
 
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In this Issue
Thank You, Earth : A Love Letter to Our Planet
Apple Cake : A Gratitude
Thank You, Bees
Thank You, Omu!
Gracias
Thank You, Mr. Falker
Other Words for Home
When Stars Are Scattered
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
White Bird : A Wonder Story
Inside Out & Back Again
The Storm Runner
Keep Your Distance!
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter
When We Are Kind
I Can Make This Promise
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Fatty Legs
We Are Water Protectors
Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim
We Are Grateful : Otsaliheliga
The Barren Grounds
Picture Books
Thank You, Earth : A Love Letter to Our Planet
by April Pulley Sayre

April Pulley Sayre presents a striking, visual love letter to the planet that introduces children to concepts in science, nature and other disciplines through vibrant, close-up images of subjects ranging from plants and animals to weather and natural-world landscapes. 
 
Recommended for kindergarten and up.
Apple Cake : A Gratitude
by Dawn Casey

A seasonally themed rhyming tale featuring a child who says thank you for the gifts of nature, from apples and eggs to milk and hazelnuts, before using the ingredients to make a delicious cake.
 
Recommended for preschool and up.
Thank You, Bees
by Toni Yuly

Bright, torn-paper collage artwork and minimalist text inspire children to appreciate life’s simple gifts, from the earth that grows vegetables and the clouds that make splashy puddles to the bees that make delicious honey and the sheep that provide warm wool.
 
Recommended for preschool and up.
Thank You, Omu!
by Oge Mora

When the aroma of Omu's homemade stew fills the air, her neighbors arrive, one by one, for a taste until all is gone except for her generous spirit.
 
Recommended for grades k-2.
Gracias
by Pat Mora

A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
 
Recommended for grades k-2.
Thank You, Mr. Falker
by Patricia Polacco

One of Polacco's most popular books is a tribute to a beloved teacher and follows the story of young Trisha, who struggles with dyslexia and peer teasing until her fifth-grade teacher helps her master reading skills and inspires her to discover her creative gifts.
 
Recommended for grades 1-3.
Chapter Books
Other Words for Home
by Jasmine Warga

Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.
 
Recommended for grades 3-8.
When Stars Are Scattered
by Victoria Jamieson

A Somali refugee who spent his childhood at the Dadaab camp and the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl present the graphic-novel story of a young refugee who struggles with leaving behind his nonverbal brother when he has an opportunity to help his family by going to school.
 
Recommended for grades 4-8. 
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
by Kwame Mbalia

Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
 
Recommended for grades 4-6.
White Bird : A Wonder Story
by R. J Palacio

Inspired by the author’s best-selling Wonder, a graphic novel debut traces the heartrending story of a grandmother who as a Jewish girl was hidden by a brave, compassionate family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II.
 
Recommended for grades 4-8.
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
 
Recommended for grades 3-7.
The Storm Runner
by Jennifer Cervantes

To prevent the Mayan gods from destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane connects him to his father and his ancestry.
 
Recommended for grades 4-6. 
Tumble Math
Keep Your Distance!
by Gail Herman

Recommended for grades k-3. 
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter
by Cindy Neuschwander

Recommended for grades 4-6. 
Native American Heritage Month
When We Are Kind
by Monique Gray Smith
 
Recommended for preschool to grade 1.
I Can Make This Promise
by Christine Day
 
Recommended for grades 4-7.
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
by Joseph Marshall
 
Recommended for grades 4-8.
 
Fatty Legs
by Margaret-Olemaun Pokieak-Fenton

Recommended for grades 4-7.


 
We Are Water Protectors
by Carole Lindstrom

Recommended for preschool to grade 1.


 
Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim
by Brenda J. Child
 
Recommended for preschool to grade 3.
 
We Are Grateful : Otsaliheliga
by Traci Sorell
 
Recommended for preschool to grade 2.
 
The Barren Grounds
by David A. Robertson

Recommended for grades 4-6.

 
These titles are a sample!
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