LLC Findaway World
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Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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Banned and Challenged Children's Books of the 2020's
Caldecott Award Winners
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
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Caldecott Award Winners
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
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Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
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"When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives. The tiger offers Lily a deal--if Lily will open her grandmother's star jars and return what she stole, the tiger will heal her grandmother. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice . . . and the courage to face a tiger"--Provided by...
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What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...
10) Super Fly Guy
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Fly Guy visits the school cafeteria and gets the lunch lady fired.
12) Swarm of bees
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A horde of bees and a young boy race around town wreaking havoc on the townspeople.
13) Islandborn
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Diverse Books - African/Black Experience in the World
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Books Featuring Dominican Children
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Books Featuring Dominican Children
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"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
15) The bridge home
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Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
16) Nana in the city
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Emotions: Books for Kids
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
17) Bronx masquerade
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While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
18) The bluest eye
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Adult Literacy Favorites: Banned Books Week Picks
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 | Right to Read Day | National Library Week 2024
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 | Right to Read Day | National Library Week 2024
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare...
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How to Bring a Book to Life - 2023
How to Bring A Book to Life- Summer Edition
How to Bring A Book to Life- Teacher Training Booklist
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
How to Bring A Book to Life- Summer Edition
How to Bring A Book to Life- Teacher Training Booklist
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--
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La La La 2024
Picture Books for Halloween 2024
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books for Halloween 2024
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes they just can't see him. Now that the Day of the Dead is...