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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Books of 2022
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Summer Reading 2023: 2nd To 3rd Grade
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Summer Reading 2023: 2nd To 3rd Grade
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Description
With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.
Author
Language
English
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Author Visits in 2023
Best Children's Books 2023
Children's Sports Fiction
New Children's Books August 2023
Best Children's Books 2023
Children's Sports Fiction
New Children's Books August 2023
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Description
Told in rhyming text, a young boy learns to swim in a pool with the example and encouragement of his family.
5) Extra normal
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"Un-super" in a household of supernatural siblings, Charlie Greer is convinced that her "too nice and too normal" new neighbors are up to something and must uncover the truth, proving you don't need special powers to stop evil.
11) Boomi's boombox
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Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
12) We still belong
Author
Language
English
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Best Children's Books 2023
Native American Heritage Month
New Children's Books September 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
Native American Heritage Month
New Children's Books September 2023
Youth Media Award-Winning Books 2024
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Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
13) Matteo
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Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
14) Parachute kids
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
19) Juneteenth
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English
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An African American family attends a modern-day Juneteenth parade in Galveston, Texas (the birthplace of the holiday). Text includes lines from "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
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