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• Ain't Burned All the Bright

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  This piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-whatiswrongwithhumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Aniana Del Mar Jumps in

  Méndez, Jasminne,

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  A novel-in-verse about a 12-year-old Dominican American girl who must keep her love of swimming a secret from her mother, is diagnosed with Juvenile Arthritis, and is forced to reimagine the person she is to become. Ages: 8-12

• Are You An Echo?

  the Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko

  Kaneko, Misuzu

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  Combines a biography and an anthology of poems by a Japanese 20th-century poet for children. Ages: 7-10

• Black Girl You Are Atlas

  Watson, Renée,

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  Poet Renée Watson looks back at her childhood and urges readers to look forward at their futures with love, understanding, and celebration in this fully illustrated poetry collection. Ages: 10-17

• Book of Questions

  Selections = Libro De Las Preguntas : Selecciones

  Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973,

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  Este libro está escrito en español y ingles. English description: This Spanish-English bilingual edition is the first fully illustrated selection of Book of Questions: comprising 70 questions of the original 320, these poems, carefully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Box

  Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

  Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-

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  Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown Is Beautiful

  Kelkar, Supriya, 1980-

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  On a hike with her grandparents, a young Indian-American girl makes note of all the beautiful things in the wilderness that are brown, too. An ode to brown. Includes instructions on how to make a scrapbook. Ages: 4-8

• Caravan to the North

  Misael's Long Walk

  Argueta, Jorge,

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  This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael Martínez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave--the hope…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Mothman

  Gow, Robin,

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  After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eb & Flow

  Baptist, Kelly J.,

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  Ebony and De'Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eleven Words for Love

  a Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love

  Abdel-Fattah, Randa,

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  A family has fled their homeland in search of safety in another country, carrying a single suitcase. As their journey unfolds, the oldest child reflects on the special contents of that suitcase: photo albums that evoke eleven of many names…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flipping Forward Twisting Backward

  Fullerton, Alma,

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  Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principal suggests she get evaluated for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harlem at Four

  Datcher, Michael, 1967-

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  Two poetic stories about Harlem; the first chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, and the second describes the history of the New York neighborhood of Harlem and the start of America's Great Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• HaiCuba

  Haikus Sobre Cuba = HaiKuba : Haikus About Cuba

  Pintado, Carlos, 1974-

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  Este libro está escrito en español y ingles. HaiCuba/HaiKuba es una celebración de Cuba en haikus bilingües en español e inglés. Descubre el tocororo con sus plumas rojas, blancas, y azules (igual que la bandera de Cuba), la guagua…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home

  Simler, Isabelle,

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  Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs. Ages: 5-9

• In and Out the Window

  Yolen, Jane,

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  At home or at school, playing sports or practicing music, enjoying the holidays or delighting in each season, Jane Yolen's poetry collection shows just how lively it is to be a kid. Ages: 8-12

• The In-between

  Van Heidrich, Katie,

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  In this memoir in verse, Katie Van Heidrich channels her thirteen year old self from the early 2000, during a turbulent six weeks in middle school. When Katie and her family come back from an out-of-town funeral, they discover their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juega conmigo

  Hillert, Margaret,

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  Este libro está escrito en español. English description: A collection of short poems for beginning readers on play-time topics such as pets, friends, family and fantasy. Años/Ages: 4-8

• Just Like Me

  Brantley-Newton, Vanessa,

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  There are all kinds of girls! Girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mom and girls who wish they had a daddy. With bright portraits in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mighty Pollinators

  Frost, Helen, 1949-

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  When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs--a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the…Read moreRead more of this annotation