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The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza
By Juan Felipe Herrera, Elizabeth Gomez
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The Upside Down Boy / El niño de cabeza
By Juan Felipe Herrera, Elizabeth Gomez
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Bilingual English/Spanish. The Upside Down Boy is award-winning poet Juan Felipe Herrera's engaging memoir of the year his migrant family settled down so that he could go to school for the first time.

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My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito
By Amada Irma Perez, Maya Gonzalez
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My Very Own Room / Mi propio cuartito
By Amada Irma Perez, Maya Gonzalez
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Bilingual English/Spanish. Five brothers, two parents, and a house full of visiting relatives make a young Mexican American girl feel crowded.

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Antonio's Card / La tarjeta de Antonio
By Rigoberto González, Cecilia Álvarez
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Antonio's Card / La tarjeta de Antonio
By Rigoberto González, Cecilia Álvarez
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Bilingual English/Spanish. A tender story about a boy struggling to express his love for his mother and her partner in a nontraditional family.

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Honoring Our Ancestors
By Harriet Rohmer
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Honoring Our Ancestors
By Harriet Rohmer
Through stories, art, and photographs, Honoring Our Ancestors will inspire children and their families to gain strength from the past as they ask themselves, "Who do I honor?"

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Quinito's Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
By Ina Cumpiano, José Ramírez
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Quinito's Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
By Ina Cumpiano, José Ramírez
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Join Quinito as he introduces the people and places of his neighborhood.

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Two Mrs. Gibsons
By Toyomi Igus, Daryl Wells
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Two Mrs. Gibsons
By Toyomi Igus, Daryl Wells
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Two Mrs. Gibsons is author Toyomi Igus's tender and touching tribute to the two most important women in her life--her Japanese mother and her African American grandmother.

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Under the Mesquite
By Guadalupe García McCall
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Under the Mesquite
By Guadalupe García McCall
Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's long illness.

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Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
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Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
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Paperback reprint coming June 23, 2025

A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby plantation to visit him.

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Only One Year
By Andrea Cheng, Nicole Wong
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Only One Year
By Andrea Cheng, Nicole Wong
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Three Chinese American children learn to trust and love one another again after the youngest child returns from a year living in China with extended family.

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Saturday At the New You
By Barbara Barber, Anna Rich
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Saturday At the New You
By Barbara Barber, Anna Rich
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A girl spends the day at her mother's hair salon, a neighborhood gathering place.

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Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall
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Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall
In this young adult retelling of The Odyssey from award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall, Odilia and her four sisters journey to Mexico to return a dead man to his family and encounter magical creatures along the way.

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The East-West House
Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
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A biography of biracial sculptor/designer/landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, focusing on his childhood in Japan and the building of an "east-west" house that gave shape to his lifelong creative approach.

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Tankborn (Tankborn #1)
A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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A Tankborn Novel
By Karen Sandler
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Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered enslaved non-human (GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and in the process find out what it means to be human.

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Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-Webb
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Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-Webb
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An African American boy living in New Orleans in the 1930s raises money to pay the rent with the help of a popular jazz musician.

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Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth
By Joan Schoettler, Jessica Lanan
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Good Fortune in a Wrapping Cloth
By Joan Schoettler, Jessica Lanan
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A heartwarming tale about a loving daughter who diligently learns to sew beautiful Korean wrapping cloths so that she can be reunited with her mother at the royal court.

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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris Soentpiet
An anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and understandings--as expressed by poets of diverse heritage and reflected in illustrations featuring people of all ages and backgrounds.

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Al fin en casa (Home At Last)
By Susan Middleton Elya, Felipe Davalos
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Al fin en casa (Home At Last)
By Susan Middleton Elya, Felipe Davalos
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A sympathetic tale of a mother-daughter bond and overcoming adversity, brought to life by the vivid illustrations of Felipe Davalos.

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Tofu Quilt
By Ching Yeung Russell
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By Ching Yeung Russell
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A collection of poems telling the story of Yeung Ying, a young girl in Hong Kong in the 1960s who, against the conventions of society and family members, aspires to become a writer.

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In Her Hands
The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
By Alan Schroeder, JaeMe Bereal
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The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
By Alan Schroeder, JaeMe Bereal
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A recreation of events from the childhood and early career of Augusta Savage, a pioneering female sculptor and major figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

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La muñeca de Elizabeti
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
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La muñeca de Elizabeti
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
In Spanish. A young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she loves the doll when she almost loses her.

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