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Edie for Equality
Edie Windsor Stands Up for Love
By Michael Genhart, Cheryl Thuesday
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Edie for Equality
Edie Windsor Stands Up for Love
By Michael Genhart, Cheryl Thuesday
This is a story about a great injustice and how Edie Windsor boldly stood up for what was right and went up against the highest court in the United States.

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The Doomsday Detectives
How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction
By Cindy Jenson-Elliott, Theo Nicole Lorenz
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The Doomsday Detectives
How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction
By Cindy Jenson-Elliott, Theo Nicole Lorenz
Father-son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez piece together one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What really happened to the dinosaurs? Dive into this fun and informative middle grade nonfiction book, which outlines the many important scientific discoveries that aided the Alvarezes in their search for answers.

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La historia del héroe de los derechos civiles John Lewis
(The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis)
By Kathleen Benson, Jim Haskins, Aaron Boyd, Enrique del Risco
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La historia del héroe de los derechos civiles John Lewis
(The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis)
By Kathleen Benson, Jim Haskins, Aaron Boyd, Enrique del Risco
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Esta nueva entrada en la innovadora series de "Historia" de libros por capítulos biográficos se enfoca en John Lewis, un líder del movimiento de los derechos civiles en los años 1960 y un congresista venerado hasta hoy en día.

This new entry in the innovative "Story" line of chapter-book biographies focuses on John Lewis, a leader in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and a revered Congressman today.

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La historia de la estrella de cine Anna May Wong
(The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong)
By Paula Yoo, Lin Wang, Eida del Risco
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La historia de la estrella de cine Anna May Wong
(The Story of Movie Star Anna May Wong)
By Paula Yoo, Lin Wang, Eida del Risco
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Esta entrada en la innovadora series de "Historia" de libros por capítulos biográficos se enfoca en Anna May Wong, cuya carrera pionera en Hollywood creó un nuevo camino para generaciones de actores asíatico-americanos.

This entry in the innovative "Story" line of chapter-book biographies focuses on Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Hollywood broke new ground for future generations of Asian American actors.

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Wat Takes His Shot
The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
By Cheryl Kim, Nat Iwata
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The Life & Legacy of Basketball Hero Wataru Misaka
By Cheryl Kim, Nat Iwata
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The stirring biography of Japanese American basketball star Wataru Misaka--the first person of color to play in the NBA!

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La pequeña Melba y su gran trombón
(Little Melba and Her Big Trombone)
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
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La pequeña Melba y su gran trombón
(Little Melba and Her Big Trombone)
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Frank Morrison
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Galardonada con el premio Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award, una biografía de la virtuosa del jazz afroamericana Melba Doretta Liston, una trombonista, compositora y arreglista musical pionera del siglo XX en una época en la que pocas mujeres tocaban instrumentos y formaban parte de la escena del jazz.

Recipient of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor award, a biography of African American jazz virtuoso Melba Doretta Liston, a pioneering twentieth-century trombone player, composer, and music arranger at a time when few women played brass instruments and were part of the jazz scene.

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Pedro's Yo-Yos
How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys
By Rob Peñas, Carl Angel
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How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys
By Rob Peñas, Carl Angel
Discover the backstory of one of America's favorite toys, the yo-yo, in this colorful biography of businessman Pedro Flores.

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Miles of Style
Eunice W. Johnson and the EBONY Fashion Fair
By Lisa D. Brathwaite, Lynn Gaines
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Eunice W. Johnson and the EBONY Fashion Fair
By Lisa D. Brathwaite, Lynn Gaines
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A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant and contemporary fashion to Black America through the annual EBONY Fashion Fair!

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Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
By Tracy Occomy Crowder
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Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
By Tracy Occomy Crowder
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It's 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carver is out to find the origin of a golden key found in his Southside Chicago community--which may or may not host the next Olympic games, or supply the next President of the United States, or... have a potential ghost hanging around.

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Indio no más
By Charlene Willing McManis, Traci Sorell, Luisana Duarte Armendáriz
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Indio no más
By Charlene Willing McManis, Traci Sorell, Luisana Duarte Armendáriz
Cuando la tribu Umpqua de Regina es terminada legalmente y su familia debe mudarse de Oregón a Los Ángeles, ella se embarca en una búsqueda para comprender su identidad como india a pesar de estar tan lejos de casa.

When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.

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The Moonlit Vine
By Elizabeth Santiago, McKenzie Mayle
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The Moonlit Vine
By Elizabeth Santiago, McKenzie Mayle
Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community?

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Claro de luna
By Elizabeth Santiago, McKenzie Mayle, Cecilia Molinari
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Claro de luna
By Elizabeth Santiago, McKenzie Mayle, Cecilia Molinari
Taína, una joven de catorce años, acaba de enterarse que es descendiente de una larga línea de fuertes mujeres taínas. ¿Pero, le ayudará esto a traer paz y justicia a su familia y comunidad?

Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community?

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Speculation
By Nisi Shawl
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Speculation
By Nisi Shawl
A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses ... and a really marvelous pair of spectacles.

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Still Dreaming / Seguimos soñando
By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, Magdalena Mora, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
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Still Dreaming / Seguimos soñando
By Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, Magdalena Mora, Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
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A 2023 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor

In the first children's book to describe the long-forgotten chapter of US history known as Mexican Repatriation, a boy and his family leave their beloved home to avoid being separated by the government.

En el primer libro infantil que describe el capítulo olvidado de la historia de los Estados Unidos conocido como la Repatriación Mexicana, un niño y su familia dejan su amado hogar para evitar ser separados por el gobierno.

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The Sky We Shared
By Shirley Reva Vernick
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The Sky We Shared
By Shirley Reva Vernick
In this thoughtful and deftly woven WWII novel, an American and Japanese teen with lives on opposite ends of the world discover that hate for an "enemy" leaves a heavy heart.

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Black Was the Ink
By Michelle Coles, Justin Johnson
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Black Was the Ink
By Michelle Coles, Justin Johnson
Through the help of a ghostly ancestor, sixteen-year-old Malcolm is sent on a journey through Reconstruction-era America to find his place in modern-day Black progress.

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El Parlamento de Lechuzas
By David Bowles, Raúl the Third, Stacey Robinson, Damian Duffy
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El Parlamento de Lechuzas
By David Bowles, Raúl the Third, Stacey Robinson, Damian Duffy
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Descubre una novela gráfica sin par: una brillante reinvención steampunk de Frankenstein ambientada en el México colonial.

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She Was the First!
The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
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The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
By Katheryn Russell-Brown, Eric Velasquez
A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politician Shirley Chisholm.

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The Story of Olympic Diver Sammy Lee
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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The Story of Olympic Diver Sammy Lee
By Paula Yoo, Dom Lee
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This compelling entry in the "Story of" line of chapter-book biographies features Sammy Lee, a Korean American diver who became the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal.

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The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
By Janet Halfmann, Duane Smith
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This exciting entry in the "Story of" line of chapter-book biographies introduces readers to Robert Smalls, an enslaved steamboat wheelman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and escaped with his family and crew to freedom.

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