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The Table

Two families—both filled with love, both encountering hardship and joy, both living in the same place—and the one simple table that connects them all.

For years, a mining family’s life revolves around …

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Frizzy

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embraces her natural curls.

Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby and hanging out with her b…

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Pretty Ugly

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—stuck with a human face!

In this beautifully gross picture book, Anna Van Ogre’s lovely monster face tur…

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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)

A picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.

Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Ti…

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Out of the Shadows: How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie

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Bessie the Motorcycle Queen

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The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs

A picture book biography of the woman who created The Tower of Faces, an exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Berry Song

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a celebration of the land she knows well and the wisdom of elders.

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her g…

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Something Like Home

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way.

Titi Silvia leaves me by myself to unpack,
but it’…

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Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir

A poignant, hilarious, and unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy’s family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them.

Pedro Mart…

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I Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912: The Graphic Novel (I Survived Graphic Novels #1)

A thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912!
Ten-year-old George Calder can't wait to explore every inch of the Titanic, even if his…

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The Stuff Between the Stars: How Vera Rubin Discovered Most of the Universe

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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand ac…

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