24 Books in this collection
Community Collection
This collecitons contains books that focus on community themes, including building and maintaining relationships, working together, and exploring different cultures and traditions.

Books in This Collection
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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris SoentpietPaperback: $12.95
Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, Chris SoentpietView DetailsAn anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and understandings--as expressed by poets of diverse heritage and reflected in illustrations featuring people of all ages and backgrounds.
Armando and the Blue Tarp School
By Edith Hope Fine, Judith Josephson, Hernán SosaPaperback: $11.95
Armando and the Blue Tarp School
By Edith Hope Fine, Judith Josephson, Hernán SosaView DetailsThe story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.
Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
By Ginnie Lo, Beth LoPaperback: $11.95
Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
By Ginnie Lo, Beth LoView DetailsWhen Jinyi and her family discover a soybean field, they begin a tradition that becomes a staple of the Chinese American community in the Midwest.
Birthday in the Barrio / Cumpleaños en el Barrio
By Mayra Lazara Dole, TonelPaperback: $12.95
Birthday in the Barrio / Cumpleaños en el Barrio
By Mayra Lazara Dole, TonelView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. In this second book by author Mayra Lazara Dole, lively determined Chavi sets off on yet another Miami adventure.
Celebrate! Connections Among Cultures
By Jan ReynoldsPaperback: $11.95This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Celebrate! Connections Among Cultures
By Jan ReynoldsView DetailsA photographic exploration comparing celebrations in seven indigenous world cultures and the United States, highlighting common rituals such as body decoration, music, and dance.
DeShawn Days
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory ChristiePaperback: $11.95
DeShawn Days
By Tony Medina, R. Gregory ChristieView DetailsIn this uplifting story told in verse, a young boy living in the inner city projects tells about his hopes, fears, and dreams.
Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia
By Carmen Lomas Garza, Sandra Cisneros, Pat MoraPaperback: $11.95
Family Pictures / Cuadros de familia
By Carmen Lomas Garza, Sandra Cisneros, Pat MoraView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. In this Pura Belpré Honor-winning book, Carmen Lomas Garza tells the story of her childhood growing up in Kingsville, TX.
Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato AlarcãoPaperback: $12.95
Finding the Music / En pos de la música
By Jennifer Torres, Renato AlarcãoView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. In this cheerful book, a determined Latina girl accidentally breaks her grandfather's vihuela and ventures into her community to find someone who can fix the instrument, leading her to discover his legacy as a mariachi player.
Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña
By Marsha Diane Arnold, Angela DomínguezPaperback: $12.95
Galápagos Girl / Galapagueña
By Marsha Diane Arnold, Angela DomínguezView DetailsThis charming bilingual English & Spanish picture book from the illustrator of Mango, Abuela, and Me introduces the fascinating creatures of the Galápagos Islands through the life of one very lucky girl.
Growing Peace
A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious HarmonyBy Richard SobolPaperback: $12.95
Growing Peace
A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious HarmonyBy Richard SobolView DetailsThis stunning photo-essay for children is a story of coexistence, focusing on Jewish, Muslim, and Christian families in a Ugandan village who created a Fair Trade Coffee Cooperative and learned to live and work together peacefully.
In My Family / En mi familia
By Carmen Lomas GarzaPaperback: $11.95
In My Family / En mi familia
By Carmen Lomas GarzaView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. In My Family/En mi familia is Carmen Lomas Garza's second book of family pictures, a continuing tribute to the loving family and community that shaped her childhood-and her life.
Lend a Hand
Poems About GivingBy John Frank, London LaddPaperback: $11.95
Lend a Hand
Poems About GivingBy John Frank, London LaddView DetailsA collection of original poems centered on giving and spontaneous acts of kindness, which also incorporate larger themes of community, intergenerational relationships, young mentors, and care for the environment.
On My Block
Stories and Paintings by Fifteen ArtistsBy Dana Goldberg, Cecilia Álvarez, Carl Angel, Cbabi BayocPaperback: $11.95This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
On My Block
Stories and Paintings by Fifteen ArtistsBy Dana Goldberg, Cecilia Álvarez, Carl Angel, Cbabi BayocView DetailsFifteen fine artists portray, in words and pictures, the places and spaces most special to them.
Quinito, Day and Night / Quinito, día y noche
By Ina Cumpiano, José RamírezPaperback: $11.95
Quinito, Day and Night / Quinito, día y noche
By Ina Cumpiano, José RamírezView DetailsFrom the author and illustrator of Quinito's Neighborhood comes this delightful story full of opposites.
Quinito's Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
By Ina Cumpiano, José RamírezPaperback: $11.95
Quinito's Neighborhood / El Vecindario de Quinito
By Ina Cumpiano, José RamírezView DetailsJoin Quinito as he introduces the people and places of his neighborhood.
Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-WebbPaperback: $11.95
Rent Party Jazz
By William Miller, Charlotte Riley-WebbView DetailsAn African American boy living in New Orleans in the 1930s raises money to pay the rent with the help of a popular jazz musician.
Sweet Music in Harlem
By Debbie Taylor, Frank MorrisonPaperback: $11.95
Sweet Music in Harlem
By Debbie Taylor, Frank MorrisonView DetailsSearching his Harlem neighborhood for his uncle's missing hat, an energetic African American boy unintentionally creates an exuberant gathering of the neighborhood's jazz musicians for a magazine photograph; a fictional story inspired by Art Kane's historic photograph of jazz greats, Harlem 1958.
Sweet Potato Pie
By Kathleen D. Lindsey, Charlotte Riley-WebbPaperback: $11.95
Sweet Potato Pie
By Kathleen D. Lindsey, Charlotte Riley-WebbView DetailsIn this fictional story set in the South in the 1920s, an African American girl and her family sell Mama's sweet potato pies at the Harvest Celebration to raise money and save their farm.
Tan to Tamarind
Poems About the Color BrownBy Malathi Michelle Iyengar, Jamel AkibPaperback: $11.95
Tan to Tamarind
Poems About the Color BrownBy Malathi Michelle Iyengar, Jamel AkibView DetailsA poetry collection that explores the spectrum of beautiful shades of brown.
The Birthday Swap
By Loretta LopezPaperback: $11.95
The Birthday Swap
By Loretta LopezView DetailsA Mexican American girl looks for the perfect birthday gift for her sister and ends up with a big surprise of her own.
Under My Hijab
By Hena Khan, Aaliya JaleelHardcover: $19.95
Under My Hijab
By Hena Khan, Aaliya JaleelView DetailsThis lovely book from the author of Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns invites readers to understand and appreciate the hijab and the Muslim women who decide to wear it.
Under the Lemon Moon
By Edith Hope Fine, René King MorenoPaperback: $11.95
Under the Lemon Moon
By Edith Hope Fine, René King MorenoXochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, la Niña de las Flores
By Jorge Argueta, Carl AngelPaperback: $11.95
Xochitl and the Flowers / Xóchitl, la Niña de las Flores
By Jorge Argueta, Carl AngelView DetailsBilingual English/Spanish. Miles away from their home in El Salvador, Xochitl (SOH-cheel) and her family make a new home in the United States, but nothing is the same.
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon
By Ruth Forman, Cbabi BayocPaperback: $11.95
Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon
By Ruth Forman, Cbabi BayocView Detailswe don have no backyard
frontyard neither...Who needs a backyard when you've got brownstone steps, double dutch, and freeze tag beneath the sizzling summer sun?
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