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All Because You Matter by Tami CharlesA lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and Brown children everywhere reminds them how much they matter, that they have always mattered and they always will. Recommended for preK and up.
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What Sound is Morning?by Grant SniderSnider explores the sounds and silence of morning, from a rooster’s crow and a chipper alarm to a rumbling stomach and the clanking of a garbage truck, while encouraging readers to establish healthy sleeping routines. Recommended for preschool and kindergarten.
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What a Lucky Day! by Jashar AwanFour animals make their way to a pier, hoping to catch some fish for dinner, but as they spy one another each fears another will ruin his or her luck. Recommended for grades K-2.
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Good Morning Zoomby Lindsay RechlerA rhyming parody of Goodnight Moon about life spent on Zoom during a pandemic. Recommended for grades K-3.
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Chance : Escape from the Holocaust by Uri ShulevitzThe Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator of The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship presents a heartrending, illustrated account of his childhood escape from Nazi-occupied Warsaw to the Soviet Union, where he experienced his awakening as an artist. Recommended for grades 4-8.
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Lupe Wong Won't Danceby Donna Barba HigueraLupe Wong needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite baseball pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, but her plan goes awry when she has to learn square dancing in gym class. Recommended for grades 3-6.
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Bouncing Back by Scott OstlerAfter the city shuts down his wheelchair team's gym, thirteen-year-old Carlos, new to life in a wheelchair, must embrace his new role in the sport he loves to truly become part of the team--and help save their season. Recommended for grades 3-6.
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Mary and the Trail of Tears : A Cherokee Removal Survival Storyby Andrea L. RogersIt is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi. Recommended for grades 3-7.
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The Polio Pioneer : Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine by Linda Elovitz MarshallProfiles world-changing 20th-century medical researcher Jonas Salk, describing how the injuries of World War II soldiers inspired his work as a doctor and membership on the team that created the influenza vaccine, before he led the fight against the devastations of polio. Recommended for grades 1-4.
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Kamala Harris : Rooted in Justiceby Nikki GrimesA sumptuously illustrated, lyrical portrait of the activist senator and presidential candidate touches on her mixed-heritage childhood as the daughter of immigrants and the long-fostered beliefs that inspired her work on behalf of equality, freedom and justice. Recommended for grades 2-5.
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Guardians of Liberty : Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News by Linda Barrett OsborneOsborne explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish-even if what they're reporting is contentious-without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Recommended for grades 7 and up.
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Thurgood Marshallby Teri KanefieldThurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was an important civil rights activist. He argued more than thirty-two cases before the Supreme Court-more than anyone else in history. And eventually, he argued against laws that justified Jim Crow segregation-and won. He became the first African American man to serve on the Supreme Court, and he served from 1967-1991. Recommended for grades 5-8.
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It's About Time, Max! by Kitty RichardsWhen Max misplaces his digital watch, he replaces it with an analog watch that he does not know how to read and finds himself late for everything. Recommended for grades K-2.
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Recommended for grades 4-6.
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