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Hiromi's Hands
By Lynne Barasch
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By Lynne Barasch
The true story of Hiromi Suzuki, a Japanese American girl who defied tradition to train at her family's restaurant, and who became one of the first female sushi chefs in New York.

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John Lewis in the Lead
A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, and the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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The Day the Dragon Danced
By Kay Haugaard, Carolyn Reed Barritt
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By Kay Haugaard, Carolyn Reed Barritt
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Sugar and her Grandma are going to the Chinese New Year's Day parade, but Grandma is skeptical about New Year's in February and scary dragons.

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Be Water, My Friend
The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The true story of the formative years of Bruce Lee's early life growing up in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, before he became an international film star.

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Life of a Genius
Su Dongpo
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Su Dongpo
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A tribute to the spirited life of one of China's greatest literary and historical heroes--poet, scholar, and statesman Su Dongpo.

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Quiet Hero
The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

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When the Horses Ride By
Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Through these graceful and eloquent poems, written from the child's perspective, readers will experience this resilience, this optimism, and understand that it is possible to get through difficult and unsettling times while holding onto one's hopes and dreams for a better, more peaceful future.

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The Wishing Tree
By Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Connie McLennan
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The Wishing Tree
By Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Connie McLennan
When Ming and his grandmother visit the wishing tree on the Lunar New Year, his wishes always seem to come true. But one year the tree does not help, and Ming alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.

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Catching the Moon
The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl who grew up to become "Toni Stone," the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team.

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Elizabeti's Doll - Bebop
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
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By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
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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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Diez tamborileros oni
By Matthew Gollub, Kazuko Stone
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By Matthew Gollub, Kazuko Stone
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Ten friendly goblins beat their drums to keep nightmares away from a young Japanese boy as he sleeps.

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Hey! You're Eating My Homework
By Della Ross Ferreri, Margaret Lindmark
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By Della Ross Ferreri, Margaret Lindmark
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After making a birdfeeder for a school project, a young Latino boy discovers that his creation attracts some unwanted attention.

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Two Sweet Peas
By Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum, Jessica McClure
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By Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum, Jessica McClure
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In a story told through poetry, two girls-one African American and one Latina, become friends and plan a way to honor special members of their families.

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First Come the Zebra
By Lynne Barasch
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First Come the Zebra
By Lynne Barasch
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The story of two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, who find a way to overcome their traditional rivalries and become friends.

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The Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire
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By Crystal Hubbard, Robert McGuire
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The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing's all-time great jockeys and the last African American to win the Kentucky Derby, in 1902.

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Louis Sockalexis
Native American Baseball Pioneer
By William Wise, Bill Farnsworth
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Native American Baseball Pioneer
By William Wise, Bill Farnsworth
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A biography of Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot Indian and the first Native American to play professional baseball, focusing on his formative years and culminating in an historic game at New York's Polo Grounds in 1897.

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Knockin' On Wood
Starring Peg Leg Bates
By Lynne Barasch
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Starring Peg Leg Bates
By Lynne Barasch
An inspirational biography of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates (1907--1998), an African American man who overcame the hardship of losing a leg at age 12 and went on to become a world-renowned tap dancer.

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Love to Langston
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory Christie
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Love to Langston
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory Christie
This inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.

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Frederick Douglass
The Last Day of Slavery
By William Miller, Cedric Lucas
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The Last Day of Slavery
By William Miller, Cedric Lucas
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The story of the African American abolitionist who, in one dramatic incident, discovered the meaning of freedom.

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Poems to Dream Together
Poemas para soñar juntos
By Francisco X. Alarcón, Paula Barragán
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Poemas para soñar juntos
By Francisco X. Alarcón, Paula Barragán
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A bilingual collection of poetry by acclaimed Chicano poet Francisco X. Alarcón celebrating family, community, nature, and the positive power of dreams to shape our future.

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