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Chasing Space

Written by Leland Melvin
Former football player, astronaut, and engineer, Leland Melvin recounts his career and achieving his...
5th - 8th
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Finding the Music

Written by Jennifer Torres and Illustrated by Renato Alarcao
A young Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and searches for someone in the...
1st - 3rd
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Malala's Magic Pencil

Written by Malala Yousafzai and Illustrated by Kerascoet
Malala wishes for a magic pencil—to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city...
K - 3rd
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Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!

Written by Marley Dias

Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make...

5th - 10th
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Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann Granderson and Her Secret School

Written by Janet Halfmann and Illustrated by London Ladd
Lilly Ann Granderson, who was enslaved, secretly learned to read and write as a child and passed on...
K - 3rd
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The Beauty That Remains

Written by Ashley Woodfolk
Music brought Autumn, Shay, and Logan together and death might pull them apart. When tragedy strikes...
9th - 12th
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The Night Diary

Written by Veera Hiranandani

Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition...

3rd - 7th
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Us, In Progress: Short Stories About Young Latinos

Written by Lulu Delacre
A dynamic short story collection that focuses on and delves into the nuances of the lives of young...
3rd - 7th
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist...
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The Ugly One

Written by Leanne Statland Ellis
I had always been ugly, as far back as I could remember. Micay has a deep scar that runs like a...
5th - 7th
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Eagle Doesn't Give Up

Written by Aldo Paltlan and Illustrated by Mike Martell
Getting a kite airborne is harder than it looks! Eagle practices perseverance with high-flying...
K - 3rd
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Ron's Big Mission

Written by Rose Blue & Corinne J. Naden and Illustrated by Done Tate
Ron loves going to the library and looking at the books, but living in South Carolina in the 1950s...
1st - 3rd
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Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

Written by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi and Illustrated by Yutaka Houlette
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his...
4th - 6th
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican...
4th - 7th
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The Youngest Marcher

Written by Cynthia Levinson and Illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963...
K - 5th
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Today I Will Fly

Written by Mo Willems
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that...
Pre-K - K
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The Cat In The Hat Comes Back

Written by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. It...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Bathtime for Biscuit

Written by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Illustrated by Pat Schories
Woof, woof! Biscuit needs a bath! Everything is ready for Biscuit's bath; everything except Biscuit...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Biscuit Wants to Play

Written by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Illustrated by Pat Schories
When Biscuit meets two little kittens, he wants to be friends. He wants to play ball and run around...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Biscuit's New Trick

Written by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Illustrated by Pat Schories
Biscuit doesn't want to play fetch the ball-until the ball lands in a mud puddle. Then Biscuit can't...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Hooray for Fly Guy

Written by Tedd Arnold
"Flies can't play football," says the coach. But Fly Guy and Buzz are determined to prove him wrong...
Pre-K - 3rd
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The Little Engine That Could

Written by Watty Piper and Illustrated by Doris Hauman
After a train carrying toys breaks down, it enlists the aid of a little blue train that agreed to...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Little Melba and Her Big Trombone

Written by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Illustrated by Frank Morrison
Ever since she was a little girl, Melba Doretta Liston loved music. One day, her momma bought her a...
1st - 3rd
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Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer

Written by Bill Wise and Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth

On a Maine summer day in 1884, twelve-year-old Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis first fell in love...

1st - 5th

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