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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Picture Books for Black History Month
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Picture Books for Black History Month
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
9) Owen
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Owen loves his yellow blanket, Fuzzy, and he takes it everywhere. When he is about to start school, a neighbor offers advice to Owen's parents about how to get rid of Fuzzy. But Owen foils each attempt. Young children will certainly identify with Owen's fervent attachment to Fuzzy.
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When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that's to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant...
13) Polar bear
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As spring approaches in the Arctic, a mother polar bear and her two cubs tentatively emerge from hibernation to explore the changing landscape. When it is time, she takes her cubs on a forty-mile journey, back to their home on the ice. Along the way, she fends off wolves, hunts for food, and swims miles and miles.
14) Ereth's birthday
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Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
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1st Grade Reading
Laura Numeroff
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Laura Numeroff
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
16) Pete's a pizza
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When Pete feels miserable because rain makes it impossible to play ball outdoors, his father finds a fun indoor game to play with his son.
18) What Janie found
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While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
19) Two homes
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A young boy named Alex enjoys the homes of both of his parents who live apart but love Alex very much.