Persistence / Grit / Overcoming Obstacles Archives

Filters

Clear Filters

Are you looking for a custom collection? Contact our sales team who will curate a list for you!

Books (355)
Collections (0)

Show

Sort by

View as

- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
Uncle Nacho's Hat / El sombrero del Tío Nacho
By Harriet Rohmer, Mira Reisberg
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Uncle Nacho's Hat / El sombrero del Tío Nacho quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Uncle Nacho's Hat / El sombrero del Tío Nacho
By Harriet Rohmer, Mira Reisberg
- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
Bilingual English/Spanish. A classic Nicaraguan folktale: when Ambrosia gives her Uncle Nacho a new hat, he tries to get rid of his old one, but to no avail.

View Details
- Teacher’s Guide
The Closet Ghosts
By Uma Krishnaswami, Shiraaz Bhabha
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

The Closet Ghosts quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Closet Ghosts
By Uma Krishnaswami, Shiraaz Bhabha
- Teacher’s Guide
When a young girl named Anu has trouble adjusting to her new home and school, she calls upon Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, for help vanquishing the ghosts in her closet.

View Details
Under the Mesquite
By Guadalupe García McCall
Hardcover: $21.95
Format
Hardcover$21.95
Clear

Under the Mesquite quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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.

Other editions:

Audiobook

View Details
- 3
- Lesson Plan
Dear Mrs. Parks
A Dialogue with Today's Youth
By Rosa Parks
Paperback: $16.95
Format
Paperback$16.95
Clear

Dear Mrs. Parks quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Dear Mrs. Parks
A Dialogue with Today's Youth
By Rosa Parks
- 3
- Lesson Plan
On a December day in 1955, Rosa Parks changed the course of history when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

View Details
- 2
Flowers From Mariko
By Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Flowers From Mariko quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Flowers From Mariko
By Rick Noguchi, Deneen Jenks, Michelle Reiko Kumata
- 2
One girl's love and determination lift the spirits of her family after they are finally allowed to leave the internment camp they were placed in during WWII.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
Ghosts for Breakfast
By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Ghosts for Breakfast quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Ghosts for Breakfast
By Stanley Todd Terasaki, Shelly Shinjo
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
When the Troublesome Triplets complain that they have seen ghosts in Farmer Tanaka's field, Papa sets off with his son to hunt the ghosts in this fun story set in 1920s California.

View Details
- Teacher’s Guide
Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
Out of Stock This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Love Twelve Miles Long
By Glenda Armand, Colin Bootman
- Teacher’s Guide
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.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
¡Béisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
By Jonah Winter
Paperback: $12.95
Format
Paperback$12.95
Clear

¡Béisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
¡Béisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
By Jonah Winter
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
In this fascinating and colorfully written collection of profiles, author/illustrator Jonah Winter gives us a guide to Latino heroes, including little known pioneers of the sport.

View Details
- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
Get Set! Swim!
By Jeannine Atkins, Hector Viveros Lee
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Get Set! Swim! quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Get Set! Swim!
By Jeannine Atkins, Hector Viveros Lee
- 2
- Teacher’s Guide
The day of the big swim meet has finally arrived, and Jessenia is excited, but a bit worried too.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
Aani and the Tree Huggers
By Jeannine Atkins, Venantius Pinto
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Aani and the Tree Huggers quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Aani and the Tree Huggers
By Jeannine Atkins, Venantius Pinto
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
A village girl in India inspires the women around her to save their beloved forest.

View Details
Allie's Basketball Dream
By Barbara Barber, Darryl Ligasan
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Allie's Basketball Dream quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Allie's Basketball Dream
By Barbara Barber, Darryl Ligasan
- 1
- Lesson Plan
Allie's story of self-determination is one that young athletes, both boys and girls, will recognize. Perfect for anyone who has experienced the ups and downs of practicing and playing hard, Allie's Basketball Dream is a spirited tribute to perseverance.

View Details
Sale!
Jay and Ben
By Lulu Delacre, Katharine Swanson
Board_book: Original price was: $20.00.Current price is: $19.00.
Format
Board Book$19.00
Clear

Jay and Ben quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Jay and Ben
By Lulu Delacre, Katharine Swanson
Discounted pricing is only valid via credit card checkout at leeandlow.com. Discounts cannot be applied to any books under the Bebop Books® imprint, and may not be combined with other offers.

A child-friendly interactive book that can be used in a variety of ways to promote the educational progress and growth of children with a wide array of abilities.

View Details
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
Seaside Dream
By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
Paperback: $11.95
Format
Paperback$11.95
Clear

Seaside Dream quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Seaside Dream
By Janet Costa Bates, Lambert Davis
- 1
- Teacher’s Guide
In this tender story of immigration, a young girl finds a way to give her grandmother the perfect present and the courage to plan a trip to her home country, Cape Verde.

View Details
Etched in Clay
The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
By Andrea Cheng
Paperback: $13.95
Format
Paperback$13.95
Clear

Etched in Clay quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Etched in Clay
The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet
By Andrea Cheng
The acclaimed biography-in-verse about the life and times of Dave, an enslaved potter who inscribed his works with short poems during the years leading up to the Civil War.

View Details
Diverse Energies
By Tobias Buckell, Joe Monti, 11 Speculative Fiction Authors
Paperback: $13.95
Format
Paperback$13.95
Clear

Diverse Energies quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Diverse Energies
By Tobias Buckell, Joe Monti, 11 Speculative Fiction Authors
A collection of dystopian short stories featuring diverse main characters and by authors of color.

Other editions:

Audiobook

View Details
Summer of the Mariposas
By Guadalupe García McCall
Paperback: $15.95
Format
Paperback$15.95
Clear

Summer of the Mariposas quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
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.

View Details
- 1
- 1
The East-West House
Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
Paperback: $10.95
Format
Paperback$10.95
Clear

The East-West House quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The East-West House
Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By Christy Hale
- 1
- 1
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.

View Details
The Great Voyages of Zheng He
By Demi
Paperback: $14.95
Format
Paperback$14.95
Clear

The Great Voyages of Zheng He quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Great Voyages of Zheng He
By Demi
Sail the world with Chinese admiral Zheng He, one of the greatest explorers in world history. What wonders will you discover on his quest to befriend nations?

View Details
- Teacher’s Guide
Cat Girl's Day Off
By Kimberly Pauley
Paperback: $13.95
Format
Paperback$13.95
Clear

Cat Girl's Day Off quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Cat Girl's Day Off
By Kimberly Pauley
- Teacher’s Guide
In this hilarious YA homage to Ferris Bueller's Chicago, Natalie must use her Talent of talking to cats to solve a high-profile celebrity kidnapping.

View Details
- 3
- Teacher’s Guide
Silent Star
The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
Paperback: $12.95
Format
Paperback$12.95
Clear

Silent Star quantity
This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Silent Star
The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy
By William Wise, Adam Gustavson
- 3
- Teacher’s Guide
The biography of William Ellsworth Hoy, the first deaf player to have a successful career in professional and Major League baseball.

View Details