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Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with...
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Chuckle and Buckle are a compassionate duo who navigate through unpleasant situations, while sharing positive lessons with their readers. This first book of the series introduces Buckle and explains how he handles his experience of looking unique.
Chuckle y Buckle son un par de compasionados quienes navegan tras situaciones desagradables mientras comparten lecciones positivas con sus lectores. El primer libro del serie les presenta a Buckle...
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Henry Richards lives with his mother in Londonderry, England. It is 1940, and his father is away at war. On December 24th, the day before Christmas, he is walking to town with his mother when a scary situation brings him into contact with a primary school, its teachers, and its students. Henry will turn out to be the older boy in the class for the next eighteen hours. What can a fourteen-year-old boy do to help turn a scary Christmas Eve into a very...
4) Differences
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Differences are not accidental. It is all a part of a uniquely designed plan, therefore, you are encouraged to embrace them as such. There are no two people, who are exactly alike. Sometimes an individual is identified by his/her physical traits with regards to his/her inner qualities. This book is a must-read because it confirms that differences are a positive and not a negative!
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HOW WONDERFUL is spending summertime by the Spanish seaside from the childhood to adult ages, enjoying a good talk to some good friends in a relaxed tone and tasting some Spanish tapas from the chiringutos!
HOW EXCITING is making some sandcastles by the sea while our grandparents have a good time teaching us their youth experiences and their family ties!
HOW AMAZING is meeting the same summer friends every summer and sharing the best personnel life...
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Meet Habiba, Aleksander, Malee, Elisa and Dinesh. They have left everything they have ever known and arrived in a classroom in a new country. Meet Grace, Jaylyn, Cameron, Miguel and Yu. They have never lived anywhere else. Hello! A Welcoming Story is the journey through the challenges that young refugees must navigate to find a sense of belonging in a new place. Flip it over and this two-books-in one also tells this story through the eyes of the students...
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This book focuses on characters who live in and come together in a diverse neighborhood.
When Raphie, a little boy in a wheelchair who lives on Cherry Street with his dog and family, finds a shiny nickel, he feels like it is his lucky day. The friendly neighbors include Mr Nakamoto who plays piano, Mrs Applegate who bakes pies, and Mrs Jordan and her daughter who tend a garden. Raphie and everyone on Cherry Street all come together for an adventure...
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It is time for another special day with Nonna, and Jellybean wants to give Nonna a special gift. In her excitement, Jellybean disobeys Mamas instructions and creates a huge mess. In this heartwarming story, Jellybean learns the valuable lesson of being patient and following directions
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When sports-loving Charlie is partnered with the weird new school in an after-school writing program, he complains that he no longer wants to be in the class. He blames everything except Jack, the new kid. He claims that his mother just wants to keep him busy every afternoon until she returns from her own teaching job and that she thinks he's a baby. His older sister Annie, who thinks she knows everything now that she's in that fancy prep school across...
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Nuestro libro busca visibilizar las diversas culturas que conforman Chile hoy en día a través de una cuestión tan fundamental como lo es la alimentación. Nuestra protagonista junto a su mascota realiza un viaje a través de diversos ingredientes y preparaciones, donde conocerá no solo sus raíces originarias, sino que también las migrantes. Descubrirá que no somos tan distintos como creíamos, aprendiendo el valor de respetar nuestras similitudes...
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Tommy is a nice boy, but he doesn't have any friends. He wonders if it is because he is different; Tommy wears hearing aids. But instead of getting angry or upset, Tommy decides to find out more about the people around him.
He genuinely wants to get to know what makes everyone he meets unique. In doing so, Tommy learns that everyone is different in one way or another, that being different is okay, and that he's just fine with his differences.
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Caterpillar Finds Her Wings is about not yet knowing what God has planned for your amazing future. Little Caterpillar is continually taunted as a little worm. But with the help of her guardian angel, little field mouse, she soon finds that her future is brilliant, and God has a miracle planned for little Caraline the Caterpillar.
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Read the world to change the world! This artful picture book about friendship and sign language, originally published in the Philippines in concert with nonprofit Room to Read, is beautifully revised for this global edition.
Our new neighbors' hands are dancing. Their hands move as if to music. What are they saying to each other?
Sam's new neighbors'; hands make graceful movements she doesn't recognize, and she wonders what they are saying....
17) Brown All Over
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Brown All Over is a celebration of colors, including the colors of our skin. It features a young boy's attempt to use all of the colors in his crayon box with the help of his family members and his realization that he is part of the color spectrum, too. It is a great book for children and families.
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Mary now has many friends and enjoys playing and learning with them. Her class has students from all over the world. To represent and showcase this diversity, a multicultural event was hosted by the third-grade teachers and the students were asked to bring food from their home countries. All students enjoyed tasting a variety of cuisines and many children and parents also wore their traditional clothes. The event provided an opportunity for students...
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You don't have to look very hard to see how different people are, especially those with disabilities or birth defects. It's much harder however to see how we are the same. This is a book on how to look past the outside appearance to find the person's true beauty within.
Different but Not is the story of a village full of people who are beautiful on the outside, but sadly their insides were ugly. They needed to learn that true beauty comes from within....
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