Puffin. Now that she’s eleven, she feels it’s time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her paternal grandmother. From a coretta scott king honor-winning author, this is a powerful story about a young girl finding her place in the world. When violet is invited to spend two weeks with her new Bibi Swahili for "grandmother" and learns about her lost heritage, her confidence in herself grows and she discovers she’s not a shrinking Violet after all.
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The Birchbark House
The birchbark house establishes its own ground, in the vicinity of Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books. The new york times book review For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.
The First Rule of Punk
100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. A 2018 pura belpré author honor bookthe first rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one’s watching. There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors.
On day one, twelve-year-old malú maría luisa, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, if you want to annoy her inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. She'll do anything to preserve this, which includes standing up to an anti-punk school administration to fight for her right to express herself! Black and white illustrations and collage art throughout make The First Rule of Punk a perfect pick for fans of books like Roller Girl and online magazines like Rookie.
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The First Rule of Punk
Armed with a microphone and a pair of scissors, this book is all about creating something new and awesome in the world. Malú rocks!" --victoria jamieson, author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Roller Girl For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.
A 2018 pura belpré author honor bookthe first rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one’s watching. There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school—you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors.
. The real malú loves rock music, and Soyrizo hold the cilantro, skateboarding, zines, please. And when she assembles a group of like-minded misfits at school and starts a band, Malú finally begins to feel at home. On day one, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, twelve-year-old Malú María Luisa, if you want to annoy her inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process.
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Gaby, Lost and Found: A Wish Novel
When gaby ramirez howard starts volunteering at the local animal shelter, she takes special pride in writing adoption advertisements. Her mother has recently been deported to Honduras and Gaby doesn't know where to turn. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Meanwhile, feather, Gaby's favorite shelter cat, needs a new place to live.
Gaby would love to adopt her-- but if gaby doesn't have a place that feels like home to her, how can she help Feather? For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time.
Stella by Starlight
Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. But one late night, something that is the first flicker of change to come, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination.
As stella’s community—her world—is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. Scholastic Paperbacks. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. To stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years.
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Sugar
Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever. Scholastic Paperbacks. Ten-year-old sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi.
From jewell parker rhodes, the author of towers falling and ninth ward a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free.
As she befriends young beau and elder Master Liu, in turn, they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Little brown Books for Young Readers.
Amina's Voice
J. Little brown Books for Young Readers. Except now that she’s in middle school everything feels different. Salaam reads. Amina’s voice brings to life the joys and challenges of a young Pakistani American and highlights the many ways in which one girl’s voice can help bring a diverse community together to love and support each other.
100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Soojin is suddenly hanging out with emily, one of the “cool” girls in the class, and even talking about changing her name to something more “American. Does amina need to start changing too? Or hiding who she is to fit in? While Amina grapples with these questions, she is devastated when her local mosque is vandalized.
Palacio, author of #1 new york times bestseller Wonder “Amina’s anxieties are entirely relatable, but it’s her sweet-hearted nature that makes her such a winning protagonist. Entertainment weekly a pakistani-american muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family’s vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community in this sweet and moving middle grade novel from the award-winning author of It’s Ramadan, Curious George and Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns.
Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight.
Amina's Voice
100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. J. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Amina’s voice brings to life the joys and challenges of a young Pakistani-American and highlights the many ways in which one girl’s voice can help bring a diverse community together to love and support each other.
Little brown Books for Young Readers. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. A washington post best children’s book of 2017 “For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can’t get better than this book. R. Palacio, author of #1 new york timesbestseller Wonder “Amina’s anxieties are entirely relatable, but it’s her sweet-hearted nature that makes her such a winning protagonist.
The Jumbies
Atheneum Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! They're just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. Scholastic Paperbacks. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and learn to use ancient magic she didn't know she possessed to stop Severine and to save her island home.
They couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? when corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next day, she knows something extraordinary is about to happen. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed!
Half a Chance
She wants to find out if her eye for photography is really special -- or only good enough. As she seeks out subjects for her photos, Lucy gets to know Nate, the boy next door. Scholastic Press. 100% satisfaction is Guaranteed! Salaam reads. For all our books; cargo will be delivered in the required time. And lucy will learn how beauty can change lives.
. Including her own. A moving middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of Rules. When lucy's family moves to an old house on a lake, as her father has taught her -- he's a famous photographer, Lucy tries to see her new home through her camera's lens, away on a shoot. But slowly the camera reveals what nate doesn't want to see: his grandmother's memory is slipping away, and with it much of what he cherishes about his summers on the lake.