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1) Refugee
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Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
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AANHPI 2022 - Kids
AANHPI Grade School
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
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AANHPI Grade School
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
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"Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee--fleeing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama--this coming-of-age debut told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration. Hà has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced...
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2023 Caudill Award Nominees
8th Grade Recommended Reads
Cookies & Comics | New Beginnings
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8th Grade Recommended Reads
Cookies & Comics | New Beginnings
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"This book is a work of fiction based on true events. It reflects the author's present recollections of experiences over time. Some names and characteristics have been changed or invented, some events have been compressed, and dialogue has been re-created." -- title page verso.
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"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
5) The poet X
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Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
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Caudill Nominees 2021
Hispanic Heritage Books at Tioga
Hispanic Heritage Titles for Johnson
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2021
Hispanic Heritage Books at Tioga
Hispanic Heritage Titles for Johnson
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2021
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"Twelve-year-old Jaime makes the treacherous journey from his home in Guatemala to his older brother in New Mexico after his cousin is murdered by a drug cartel"--
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"A gorgeously written, hopeful middle grade novel in verse about a young girl who must leave Syria to move to the United States, perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Aisha Saeed. Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. At first, everything in America...
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9th Grade Recommended Reads
Arab American Heritage
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2022
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Arab American Heritage
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2022
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Twelve-year-old Iranian refugee Khosrou moves to Oklahoma where he goes by Daniel and models himself after the legendary storyteller Scheherazade as he weaves tales that reflect his perseverance and reinvention.
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a...
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Nevermoor volume 1
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"A cursed child destined to die on her eleventh birthday is rescued and whisked away to a secret realm called Nevermoor and given the chance to compete for a place in a prestigious organization called the Wundrous Society"--
10) Shooting Kabul
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month- Youth
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
We Remember: 9/11 for Kids
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month- Youth
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
We Remember: 9/11 for Kids
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Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
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AMPL National Hispanic Heritage Month
2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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2022 Abraham Lincoln Teen Book Awards
2022 Lincoln Award Nominees
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Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
12) Islandborn
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Hispanic Heritage Month (Youth)
OBD Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
OBD Hispanic Heritage Month - Youth
September - Celebrate National Hispanic-Heritage Month - YOUTH
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
14) Nowhere boy
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Caudill Nominees 2021
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2021
Rotolo 6th & 7th Grade Red Carpet Reads
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2021
Rotolo 6th & 7th Grade Red Carpet Reads
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"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
16) A different pond
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2nd Grade Recommended Reads
AANHPI Picture Books
Asian & Pacific Islander Creators and Stories
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AANHPI Picture Books
Asian & Pacific Islander Creators and Stories
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Turtle of Oman volume 1
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When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
19) Love in English
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Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
20) Unsettled
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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