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The School the Aztec Eagles Built
By Dorinda Nicholson
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The School the Aztec Eagles Built
By Dorinda Nicholson
A photo-illustrated book about the Aztec Eagles, Mexico's World War II Air Force squadron interwoven with the story of Sergeant Angel Bocanegra, whose service was rewarded with the building of a school in his village.

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Calling the Water Drum
By LaTisha Redding, Aaron Boyd
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Calling the Water Drum
By LaTisha Redding, Aaron Boyd
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A moving story about a family's attempt to flee Haiti in a boat, and a young boy who bravely learns to navigate a new world through playing his drum.

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The Three Lucys
By Hayan Charara, Sara Kahn
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The Three Lucys
By Hayan Charara, Sara Kahn
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After a young Lebanese boy loses one of his beloved cats when his village comes under attack, he must learn to cope with loss and hope for a peaceful future.

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Shame the Stars (Shame the Stars #1)
By Guadalupe García McCall
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Shame the Stars (Shame the Stars #1)
By Guadalupe García McCall
In the midst of racial conflict and at the edges of a war at the Texas-Mexico border in 1915, Joaquín and Dulceña attempt to maintain a secret romance in this young adult reimagining of Romeo and Juliet.

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Marisol McDonald and the Monster / Marisol McDonald y el monstruo
By Monica Brown, Sara Palacios
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Marisol McDonald and the Monster / Marisol McDonald y el monstruo
By Monica Brown, Sara Palacios
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Bilingual English/Spanish. Free-spirited Marisol confronts her fear of monsters and unfamiliar nighttime noises.

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Tiny Stitches
The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Colin Bootman
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The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
By Gwendolyn Hooks, Colin Bootman
The life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open-heart surgery on children.

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Prairie Dog Song
The Key to Saving North America's Grasslands
By Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
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The Key to Saving North America's Grasslands
By Susan L. Roth, Cindy Trumbore
Focusing on the role of prairie dogs as a keystone species, this book tells the connected histories of the North American grassland prairies and current efforts to preserve and recover the Janos grasslands in northern Mexico.

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The Adventures of Connie and Diego / Las aventuras de Connie y Diego
By Maria Garcia, Malaquias Montoya
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The Adventures of Connie and Diego / Las aventuras de Connie y Diego
By Maria Garcia, Malaquias Montoya
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Bilingual English/Spanish. This folktale follows Connie and Diego who, tired of being teased, set out to find a new home and encounter all different animals along the way.

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Comepasteles
By Ruthanne Lum McCunn
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Comepasteles
By Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Trilingual English, Spanish, and Chinese. In the nineteenth century, a young Chinese comes to the United States to work on the railroad and develops a fondness for pies that becomes legendary.

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Lily's New Home (Confetti Kids #1)
(Dive Into Reading)
By Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez
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(Dive Into Reading)
By Paula Yoo, Shirley Ng-Benitez
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In this early chapter book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her parents move from their suburban neighborhood to New York City and Lily must adapt to her new life.

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Trail of the Dead (Killer of Enemies #2)
By Joseph Bruchac
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Trail of the Dead (Killer of Enemies #2)
By Joseph Bruchac
In this sequel to Killer of Enemies, Lozen and her family, on the run from the tyrants who once held them hostage, embark on a journey along a perilous trail once followed by her ancestors, where they meet friends and foes alike.

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Ink and Ashes
By Valynne Maetani
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Ink and Ashes
By Valynne Maetani
In this heart-pounding YA mystery, teenager Claire Takata stumbles on a secret from the past and must race to outrun her father's dangerous legacy.

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Maya's Blanket
La manta de Maya
By Monica Brown, David Diaz
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Maya's Blanket
La manta de Maya
By Monica Brown, David Diaz
Bilingual English/Spanish. Based on a Yiddish folk song, a young girl's cherished baby blanket becomes old and worn over time and she finds new ways to use it as she grows up.

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Ira's Shakespeare Dream
By Glenda Armand, Floyd Cooper
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Ira's Shakespeare Dream
By Glenda Armand, Floyd Cooper
The inspiring biography of Ira Aldridge, a Black actor who overcame racism to become one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century.

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Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
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Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato Alarcão
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Bilingual English/Spanish. In this cheerful book, a determined Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and ventures into her community to find someone who can fix the instrument, leading her to discover his legacy as a mariachi player.

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Mommy's Having a Watermelon
By Kim Adlerman, Danny Adlerman, Megan Halsey
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Mommy's Having a Watermelon
By Kim Adlerman, Danny Adlerman, Megan Halsey
The story of a girl who mistakes her mother’s pregnancy for a watermelon growing in her mother’s stomach, as a result of a swallowed seed.

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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
By Amy Lee-Tai, Felicia Hoshino
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By Amy Lee-Tai, Felicia Hoshino
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Bilingual English/Japanese. A young girl finds things to be joyful about in the Topaz Internment Camp.

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Pig Park
By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez
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By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez
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Masi's barrio is wasting away. An entrepreneur comes to the rescue. But why? And his son has nice soft lips.

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Twenty-two Cents
Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
By Paula Yoo, Jamel Akib
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Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
By Paula Yoo, Jamel Akib
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A biography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who revolutionized global antipoverty efforts by developing the innovative economic concept of micro-lending.

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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
A biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women, of any race, played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.

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