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Include books by the same author14 Cows for America
Carmen Agra Deedy · 36 pages
The Sandwich Swap
Rania Al Abdullah, Kelly DiPucchio
A beautiful book written by an actual queen. This book teaches about tolerance and accepting others. It is about two girls in school who learn how to accept each other's lunches, even though they are unfamiliar with what the food is. It teaches kids that it is important to not assume they will not like something that is new, and also to be kind to friends who might be different. It celebrates c
Happy to Be Nappy
bell hooks
Happy to be nappy! Happy with hair all short and strong. Happy with locks that twist and curl. Just all girl happy! Happy to be nappy hair!
Smoky Night
Eve Bunting · 36 pages
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
Pam Munoz Ryan · 40 pages
An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.
Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like the Firebird
Misty Copeland
American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.
Tomas and the Library Lady
Pat Mora · 40 pages
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
The Gardener
Sarah Stewart · 40 pages
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
DuBose Heyward · 48 pages
To the surprise of many, the little country cottontail becomes one of the special Easter bunnies even though she has twenty-one children of her very own.
Blueberry Girl
Neil Gaiman · 31 pages
Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.
Rosa
Nikki Giovanni · 34 pages
The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Patty Lovell
Even when the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her and she feels good about herself.
Rosie Revere, Engineer
Andrea Beaty · 32 pages
Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. But when her contraption doesn't fl y but rather hovers for a momen
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats · 32 pages
Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, Keats' story of a young boy experiencing the year's first snowfall has delighted millions of readers. Peter, The Snowy Day's protagonist, wakes up to the season’s first snowfall. In his bright red snowsuit, he goes outside and makes footprints and trails through the snow. Peter is too young to join a snowball fight with older kids, so he makes a snowman and sno
Katy and the Big Snow
Virginia Lee Burton · 36 pages
Katy, a red crawler tractor, belonged to the Highway Department of the City of Geoppolis. She was not used in winter, however, until a huge snow storm snowed in the whole city. Then Katy plowed out everyone.
Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney · 32 pages
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Beatrice's Goat
Page McBrier · 37 pages
A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Robert Coles · 32 pages
For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo · 240 pages
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacuum cleaner, that is. As for self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, she has read every issue of the comic book 'Terrible Things Can Happen to You!' so she is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the sq
Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood
F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell
"Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors"--
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Doreen Rappaport · 40 pages
A brief biographical sketch of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest figures in the American civil rights movement.
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
Dr. Seuss · 48 pages
Compared to the problems of some of the creatures the old man describes, the boy is really quite lucky.
I Love My Hair!
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.