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¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!
Janitor Strike in L.A.
By Diana Cohn, Francisco Delgado, Luis J. Rodriguez
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¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!
Janitor Strike in L.A.
By Diana Cohn, Francisco Delgado, Luis J. Rodriguez
When the janitors' union strikes for better wages, Carlitos discovers a way to help his mother in this powerful bilingual picture book.

Cuando el sindicato de conserjes organiza una huelga para exigir mejores salarios, Carlitos descubre una manera en que le puede ayudar a su madre en este poderoso libro ilustrado bilingüe.

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Honda
The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars
By Mark Weston, Katie Yamasaki
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The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars
By Mark Weston, Katie Yamasaki
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The life story of Soichiro Honda, pioneering Japanese businessman and innovative motorcycle and car manufacturer.

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No Mush Today
By Sally Derby Miller, Nicole Tadgell
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No Mush Today
By Sally Derby Miller, Nicole Tadgell
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The sweet story a young girl who rebels against eating mushy cereal for breakfast every day by leaving her parents and baby brother to spend the day with her grandmother, then realizes home isn't so bad after all.

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Seven Miles to Freedom
The Robert Smalls Story
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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The Robert Smalls Story
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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The true story of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

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El árbol más feliz
Un cuento sobre yoga
By Uma Krishnaswami, Ruth Jeyaveeran
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Un cuento sobre yoga
By Uma Krishnaswami, Ruth Jeyaveeran
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In Spanish. Meena is excited about the class play, a new and improved version of Red Riding Hood.

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A Song for Cambodia
By Michelle Lord, Shino Arihara
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A Song for Cambodia
By Michelle Lord, Shino Arihara
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The true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, Cambodian American musician and human rights activist, who as a young boy survived Khmer Rouge work camps by learning to play a musical instrument.

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The Wakame Gatherers
By Holly Thompson, Kazumi Wilds
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The Wakame Gatherers
By Holly Thompson, Kazumi Wilds
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A touching and timely story about a biracial girl who is excited to spend time with her American grandmother and her Japanese grandmother.

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Chess Rumble
By G. Neri, Jesse Joshua Watson
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By G. Neri, Jesse Joshua Watson
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A story in free verse about a troubled boy who learns to use his mind instead of his fists through the guidance of an unconventional mentor and the game of chess.

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Surfer of the Century
The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
By Ellen Crowe, Richard Waldrep
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The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
By Ellen Crowe, Richard Waldrep
The true story of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, six-time Olympic swimming champion and legendary surfer who popularized surfing around the world.

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Steel Drumming at the Apollo
The Road to Super Top Dog
By Trish Marx, Ellen B. Senisi
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The Road to Super Top Dog
By Trish Marx, Ellen B. Senisi
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A photo-essay following the members of a high school band through several rounds of Amateur Night competitions at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Includes a CD of the band playing their competition song, plus original compositions.

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Hiromi's Hands
By Lynne Barasch
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Hiromi's Hands
By Lynne Barasch
The true story of Hiromi Suzuki, a Japanese American girl who defied tradition to train at her family's restaurant, and who became one of the first female sushi chefs in New York.

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John Lewis in the Lead
A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
By Jim Haskins, Kathleen Benson, Benny Andrews
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A biography of John Lewis, one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his involvement in Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, and the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

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Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma
By Joe Hayes, Mona Pennypacker
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Ghost Fever / Mal de Fantasma
By Joe Hayes, Mona Pennypacker
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A bilingual ghost story just spooky enough to thrill middle grade readers!

Un cuento de fantasmas bilingüe, ¡para todos lectores jóvenes buscando un poco de espanto!

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Be Water, My Friend
The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The Early Years of Bruce Lee
By Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
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The true story of the formative years of Bruce Lee's early life growing up in Hong Kong in the 1940s and 1950s, before he became an international film star.

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Life of a Genius
Su Dongpo
By Demi
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Life of a Genius
Su Dongpo
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A tribute to the spirited life of one of China's greatest literary and historical heroes--poet, scholar, and statesman Su Dongpo.

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Quiet Hero
The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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The Ira Hayes Story
By S. D. Nelson
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A biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers to raise the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, an event immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.

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When the Horses Ride By
Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Children in the Times of War
By Eloise Greenfield, Jan Spivey Gilchrist
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Through these graceful and eloquent poems, written from the child's perspective, readers will experience this resilience, this optimism, and understand that it is possible to get through difficult and unsettling times while holding onto one's hopes and dreams for a better, more peaceful future.

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The Wishing Tree
By Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Connie McLennan
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The Wishing Tree
By Roseanne Greenfield Thong, Connie McLennan
When Ming and his grandmother visit the wishing tree on the Lunar New Year, his wishes always seem to come true. But one year the tree does not help, and Ming alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.

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Catching the Moon
The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The Story of a Young Girl's Baseball Dream
By Crystal Hubbard, Randy Duburke
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The spirited story of Marcenia Lyle, the African American girl who grew up to become "Toni Stone," the first woman to play for an all-male professional baseball team.

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Elizabeti's Doll - Bebop
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
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Elizabeti's Doll - Bebop
By Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Christy Hale
A young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she loves the doll when she almost loses her.

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