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The following books I chose for this column due to the level of reading the student should be in order to be a transition reader.

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The following Biographies I chose to include in this column were people that have made a major impact in our world and many of what the students heard about these following people has either been some truth or not the whole truth.

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These books that I chose in this column are to discuss different disabilities that many people have and how to cope with those disabilities since someone in their family or even among their classmates may have a similar disability.

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The books listed in this column were chosen because I felt like they are able to help students become more aware of the LGBTQ community and how they are still human beings.

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Ever since I found out that there are awards that go to certain books for certain aspects of the book whether it’s the message, diversity, pictures, etc.,I found the following books important to promote in my classroom in over to cover many topics in class as a whole.

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These books are near and dear to my heart since I understand coming to an America classroom and having no way of your language that you recognize. I would like to have my students be able to feel some sort of relief and feel in a safe environment

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I chose the following books because they include different versions of poems that show the variety of forms and rules poems can be shaped into as well as they have a fun theme or have a funny concept in order to help those students who don’t think poetry is fun.

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Stonewall Honor Book. Then there’s twelve-year-old goblin-witch Beetle, who’s caught in between. She’d rather skip being homeschooled completely and spend time with her best friend, Blob Glost. But the mall is getting boring, and B.G. is cursed to haunt it, tethered there by some unseen force.

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Corbett’s Scott King Award. Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything.

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Winner of the 2020 Caldecott Medal

A 2020 Newbery Honor Book

Winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King .The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes.

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Winner Newbeery Medal. New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real,

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Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide.

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Caldecott Medal 2021. Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption

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A stonewall honor book, When an anonymous troll starts sending him hateful messages and exposes old photos and his deadname to his art school classmates, Felix sets out for revenge. On his quest to uncover the truth, Felix ultimately learns that love has been within his reach the whole time.

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Corvette Scott King Award. Rife with edge-of-your-seat suspense, lush world-building and intricate plot details, Legendborn also adeptly weaves in important commentary on the history of racism in the American South and the effects of that trauma and grief today.

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remarkable true account of Omar’s childhood growing up in the camp, raising his little brother and dreaming of a better life for them both. A heartbreaking, hopeful, eye-opening must-read for all ages.

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WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL. When You Trap a Tiger is a powerful story about one of our greatest powers, storytelling and the effects those stories have on who we become.

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PRINTZ HONOR BOOK. WALTER HONOR BOOK. We Are Not Free tells the fictionalized story of 14 teenagers uprooted from their lives in San Francisco and sent to live in these camps, losing their freedom in the process.

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Other Words for Home is a sweet and hopeful story about a young girl named Jude who is separated from her father and brother when she moves from Syria to the U.S. with her pregnant mother.

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John Newbeery Medal. Author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school — and the steadfast connection that defines family.

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A bilingual (English-Spanish) Christian children's book to teach children about missions from the perspective Kai the missionary sea turtle.

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Little Maya has a special blanket that Grandma stitched with her own two hands. As Maya grows, her blanket becomes worn and frayed, so with Grandma s help, Maya makes it into a dress.

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My Name Is Celia: The life of Celia Cruz

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My Name Is Celia: The life of Celia Cruz

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A bilingual story book about Cuban-born "salsa queen" Celia Cruz. This vibrantly illustrated book by Rafael Lopez paints the biography of Celia Cruz. You are able to read this book in either English or Spanish.

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Perro grande-- perro pequeño Big dog-- little dog

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Perro grande-- perro pequeño Big dog-- little dog

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Follows a day in the life of Ted and Fred, canine best friends who introduce young children to the concepts of size, color, and opposites.

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In the story, Marisol, as others see her, is a mismatch of things that don't make sense. She has red hair and brown skin, likes to wear polka dot and strip combinations, and eats peanut butter and jelly burritos. Though Marisol likes who she is, one day she decides to try to 'match' and please everyone else.

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These friends run a local babysitting service called "The Baby-Sitters Club". The novels are told in first-person narrative and deal with issues such as illness, moving, and divorce.

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This series features three smart kids who solve crimes and mysteries. They live in a small town in Connecticut, called Green Lawn. The kids are Dink Duncan, Josh Pinto, and Ruth Rose Hathaway. They are third graders and live near each other. They have hobbies and pets and parents, but what they love most is a good mystery.

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The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of fiction books written by American author and cartoonist, Jeff Kinney. The books follow pre-teen Greg Heffley, who illustrates his daily life in a secret diary.

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While volunteering with her mother at a community center, a seven-year-old girl befriends Suhana, also seven, whose cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to communicate or control her movements. Includes facts about cerebral palsy.

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Ally hides her inability to read anyway she can until a new teacher discovers her incredible creativity.

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Told in rhyme, this story follows Susan through a series of familiar activities that many other kids do. She swims with her father, works hard in school, plays with her friends and even rides a horse. Lively, thoughtfully drawn illustrations reveal a portrait of a busy, happy little girl with whom younger readers will identify. Not until the end of the story is it revealed that Susan uses a wheelchair.

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Though we seem different, inside we’re the same. Our hearts are for caring, no matter our name

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The following books I chose because many students have the impression that nonfiction books are only filled with facts and no pictures or fun. So I tried to mostly find interesting and inviting nonfiction books that students would never think would be considered Nonfiction.

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This one shows what happens on a Tuesday night when frogs take flight. The very realistic illustrations are a fabulous juxtaposition to the goofy idea of frogs flying about on lily pads.

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It's a simple book about a day at the beach, but the vibrant, inviting illustrations are so magical you'll want to jump right into this story.

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When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.

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Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.

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Horrible Harry and friends start off third grade with a new room and a field trip to an old copper mine to study rocks

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A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.

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Young Amelia Bedelia will do almost anything for a shiny new bicycle. Her parents say they'll split the cost with her, and that means Amelia Bedelia needs to put the pedal to the metal and earn some dough!

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The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.

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Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to give a cat a real bath with soap and water.

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With these endearing brothers, something as simple as making pancakes becomes a moment of comedy. This time around, the boys are preparing for Mom’s birthday.

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The effervescent themes of friendship, community, and empathy contained in these three tales will leave young readers amused and satisfied.

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Brain is overconfident. Chick is unfailingly courteous. Brain wants Chick to smell his foot, which Chick staunchly refuses to do until Brain says the magic word. But when Chick is in danger of being eaten, will Brain come to the rescue?

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As a boy, Carl Sagan loved learning about the stars. His trip to the 1939 World’s Fair opened up the universe to Carl. A boy who was captured by the wonder of the cosmos became a man who would launch satellites and teach the world about the stars.

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Mary Walker was born into slavery. She had her first child at the age of 20, lived through a Civil War and two World Wars, and worked many many jobs. Finally, at the young age of 116, Mary Walker learned how to read, proving that it is never too late to follow your dreams and also recognize how incredible life can be.

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“Disagreeing does not make you disagreeable” was something that young Ruth Bader Ginsberg had to learn. This book is the first picture book of Ginsberg’s life.

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Florence was a little girl who loved to sing. She also loved her parents, who were formerly enslaved. So when her beautiful singing and dancing inspired patrons and playwrights alike, she knew that she wouldn’t be happy without standing up to the injustice that she saw daily.

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He wanted to help those in the long daily lines for soup after WWII. This is the story of one man, his commitment to his cause, and the world’s most popular “easy soup.”

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When Vincent Van Gogh couldn’t sleep, he’d walk during the night, giving him the inspiration for his famous painting Starry Night. With lovely poetic writing, it tells kids to follow their passion, even if they don’t see the return in their lifetime.

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When NASA used mathematicians called “human computers,” one woman stood out among them all. Katherine Johnson was integral in getting John Glen around the world, helping men walk on the moon, and getting Apollo 13 home safely.

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How did a quiet and shy girl from Detroit become the Queen of Soul and the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? She stayed true to herself and her ideals by refusing to play for segregated audiences and never forgetting her roots.

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This picture book biography tells the story of how Louis Braille lost his sight and invented an alphabet. Young Braille wanted nothing more than to be able to read after an accident causes him to lose his eyesight. His invention gave blind kids all over the world a new way to navigate a world that wasn’t made for them.

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Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives

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Timeless Thomas: How Thomas Edison Changed Our Lives

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Thomas Edison best known for inventing the light bulb. He began inventing things when he was just a young boy and dedicated his life to improving the world.

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After spending his days piling wood and fetching supplies, Horace would draw pictures of his family or friends or even objects with a piece of charcoal.

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On A Beam Of Light:A Story of Albert Einstein 

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On A Beam Of Light:A Story of Albert Einstein 

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In this charming book about Albert Einstein, readers are introduced to a quiet young boy who spends most of his time wondering about life’s larger mysteries. His inquisitive mind questions the way the universe works and our place in it just through his observations of daily life.

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It chronicles Yuyi Morales' journey from Mexico to the United States with her young son, Kelly.

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As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were more important things to wish for. She saw a world that needed fixing.

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Figure skating icon and U.S. National Champion Karen Chen tells the amazing story of her rise to the top

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young readers will get to learn about Leland Melvin’s remarkable life story, from being drafted by the Detroit Lions to bravely orbiting our planet in the International Space Station to writing songs with will.i.am, working with Serena Williams, and starring in top-rated television shows like The Dog Whisperer, Top Chef, and Child Genius.

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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

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My Family Divided: One Girl's Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope

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One day, while Guerrero was at school, her undocumented immigrant parents were taken from their home, detained, and deported. Guerrero's life, which had been full of the support of a loving family, was turned upside down.

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Now more than ever it is important to incorporate strong women from history. So the books that I chose for this category are to help promote not only women who have done great things but promoting girls to be interested in STEM.

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As someone who loved reading in school I know how it feels to fall in love with a series of books so I want to provide series of books that contain, humor, mystery, and even comics.

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The following books in this category is one of my favorites and it contains all traditional literature books like: Fractured Fairytales, folktales, tall tales, myths, legends and fables.

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As a very young reader I liked wordless books but as I got older I didn’t appreciate them as much. However, after learning all that wordless books can teach us, I would love for my students to fall in love with the details, color, and stories these wordless books can offer.

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A charming snapshot of the a young Jane Goodall-- famed conservationist and humanitarian --and her early passion for animals which ultimately led to her remarkable career.

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Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again, but Wilma refused to believe it. She became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad.

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Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants

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Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants

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What’s a California miner to do when gold dust sifts right out of his holey pockets? With such a raggedy wardrobe, he may as well be mining in the vanilla (that is, his birthday suit)! Good thing Levi Strauss is out west, ready with his needle and a head full of bright ideas. With some quick thinking, quicker stitching, and handy arithmetic, Levi keeps all the gold rushers clothed—and becomes a modern American hero

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His name was Duke. Duke Ellington. As a child, he said piano made an umpy-dump sound that was headed nowhere worth following. But, years later, he heard the piano played a whole new way. People called the music "ragtime", and soon the sound had Duke's fingers riding the piano keys.

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Eleanor is a children's picture book biography of Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood, written by Barbara Cooney, describing her as a shy girl who goes on to do great things.

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the spunky young Colombian girl who stars in this playful, abundantly illustrated series. Juana loves many things: drawing, living in Bogotá, Colombia, and especially her dog, Lucas, the best amigo ever.

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Mia’s abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. While they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English, and Mia learns some Spanish, too, but it’s still hard for Abuela to learn enough words to tell Mia her stories.

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Waiting for the Biblioburro/Esperando el Biblioburro

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Waiting for the Biblioburro/Esperando el Biblioburro

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On most days, teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez packs his two burros, Alfa and Beto, with books and makes his way over mountains and through valleys to visit children in far-flung villages in rural Colombia—all for the sake of literacy and culture.

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A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood

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The Princess and the Pea gets a fresh twist in this charming bilingual retelling

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An inspiring tribute to the beauty and meaning of the American flag, a symbol of America’s history and people, illustrated by New York Times bestselling and Caldecott-honor winning artist Kadir Nelson–now available with text in Spanish and English.

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What Can You Do with a Rebozo? / ¿Qué puedes hacer con un rebozo?

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What Can You Do with a Rebozo? / ¿Qué puedes hacer con un rebozo?

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A cradle for baby, a superhero’s cape, a warm blanket on a cool night–there are so many things you can do with a rebozo. Through the eyes of a young girl, readers are introduced to the traditional shawl found in many Mexican and Mexican-American households

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A young girl and her grandmother celebrate their home and relationship in this magical story.

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Doña Flor is a giant lady who lives in a tiny village in the American Southwest. Popular with her neighbors, she lets the children use her flowers as trumpets and her leftover tortillas as rafts.

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A captivating and child-friendly look at the extraordinary journey that monarch butterflies take each year from Canada to Mexico; with a text in both English and Spanish.

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Now even the youngest children can enjoy the ghosts, skeletons and treats of this spirited holiday – in a bilingual board book!

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All you wanted to know about soccer and were afraid to ask!

Sixty-four pages full of fascinating facts about soccer and its history.

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El gallo que no se callaba! / The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!

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El gallo que no se callaba! / The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!

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So the villagers elect the bossy Don Pepe as their mayor. Before long, singing of any kind is outlawed. Even the teakettle is afraid to whistle!

But there is one noisy rooster who doesn't give two mangoes about this mayor's silly rules.

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It is time for bed and Mr. Panda reminds his friends Hippopotamus, Skunk, Sheep, and Sloth that they each have forgotten to do something in this lovely book in Spanish.

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The Wheels on the Bus / Las ruedas del autobús 

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The Wheels on the Bus / Las ruedas del autobús 

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The popular song "The Wheels on the Bus" has been handsomely adapted and illustrated in this bilingual book in English and Spanish. Children will be able to practice basic concepts with this book while being exposed to two languages.

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My big sister Clemmie is my best friend. She can't walk, talk, move around much, cook macaroni, pilot a plane, juggle or do algebra. I don't know why she doesn't do these things. Just because.' Just Because tells of a brother's love for his sister. He is so enthusiastic about just how loving and special she is, and delights in telling us about all the fun things they do together.

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story of a child who suffers from asthma, a chronic condition that sometimes produces frightening attacks. But kids learn that with proper medical supervision and treatment, asthma can be kept under control, and kids who are affected by it can live happy, active, and normal lives.

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Zulay and her three best friends are all in the same first grade class and study the same things, even though Zulay is blind. When their teacher asks her students what activity they want to do on Field Day, Zulay surprises everyone when she says she wants to run a race.

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What's Inside You Is Inside Me, Too: My Chromosomes Make Me Unique

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What's Inside You Is Inside Me, Too: My Chromosomes Make Me Unique

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Every child, every person, every living thing is unique, in big part, due to chromosomes. Children with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome. this book informs people about Down syndrome in a fun illustrative way.

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Moses and his school friends are deaf, but like most children, they have a lot to say. They communicate in American Sigh Language, using visual signs and facial expressions

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Neurological issues make Lemon unable to walk, but with the support of a compassionate teacher and her students, Lemon is still able to become one happy duck!

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Don't Call Me Special: A First Look at Disability 

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Don't Call Me Special: A First Look at Disability 

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This delightful picture book explores questions and concerns about disability in a simple and reassuring way. Younger children can find out what a disability is, and learn how people deal with their disabilities to live happy and full lives.

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This heartwarming story tells of the challenges of living with Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism. This firsthand view of the life of an undiagnosed child presents behaviors and characteristics that are common among children with this disorder

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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

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Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

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Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people—but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams.

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A Friend Like Simon: A Friend Like Simon 

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A Friend Like Simon: A Friend Like Simon 

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When an autistic child joins a mainstream school, many children can find it difficult to understand and cope with a student that is somewhat ‘different’ to them. This story encourages other children to be mindful and patient of the differences that exist and to also appreciate the positive contribution that an autistic child can make to the group

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Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship

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Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship

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This book helps readers to understanding gender identity and transition in an accessible and heart-warming story about being true to yourself and being a good friend.

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the story of a mislabeled crayon, a little guy whose waxy blue self is covered in a red paper wrapper and no one can see past his label.

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This fun, inclusive board book for very young children celebrates the one thing that makes every family a family: LOVE.