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Author: Claudia Harrington
Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015). My Grandparents (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Illustrator: Zoe Persico
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APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2017). My Blended Family. Looking Glass Library.

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Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015). My Mom and Dad. Looking Glass Library.

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Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015c). My Two Moms (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015b). My Two Homes (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Illustrator: Zoe Persico
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APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015b). My Military Mom (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Author: Claudia Harrington
Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2015). My Two Dads (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Author: Claudia Harrington
Illustrator: Zoe Persico
Publisher: Looking Glass Library

APA: Harrington, C., & Persico, Z. (2017). My Special Needs Family (My Family). Looking Glass Library.

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Author: Donna Marie Merritt
Illustrator: Liza Woodruff
Publisher: Kane Press Inc

APA: Pitino, D. M., & Woodruff, L. (2005). Too-tall tina. Kane Press.

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Illustrator: Claire Alexander
Publisher: Happy Yak

APA: Alexander, C. (2021). A Little bit of courage. Happy Yak.

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Author: Kyle Lukoff
Illustrator: Kaylani Juanita
Publisher: Lee and Low Books Inc

APA: Lukoff, K., & Juanita, K. (2019). When Aidan became a brother. Lee & Low Books Inc.

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Illustrator: Claire Alexander
Publisher: Words and Pictures

APA: Alexander, C. (2021). A little bit different. Words and Pictures.

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APA: Webb, M. L., & Henning, D. (2021). The gaybcs. Findaway World, LLC.

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Illustrator: Holly Hatam
Publisher: Little Bee Books

APA: Silverman, E., & Hatam, H. (2019). Jack (not Jackie). Little Bee Books.

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Illustrator: Bill Slavin and Esperanca Melo
Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers

APA: Levy, J., Slavin, B., & Melo Esperança. (2014). Thomas the Toadilly Terrible Bully. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.

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Illustrator: Francisco Olea
Publisher: Kids Can Press

APA: Maturana, A., & Olea, F. J. (2016). Life without Nico. Kids Can Press.

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Illustrator: Ashley Spires
Publisher: Kids Can Press

APA: Spires, A. (2014). Small Saul. Kids Can Press.

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Lenny visits classmate Layla's home and discovers that she lives with her grandparents. Layla's grandfather turns out to be Principal Baccus. Layla's grandfather cooks dinner for the family. Layla's family eats kabobs and hummus sitting down on the floor. Layla also has two sisters, Abby and Dana. The book shows Layla's family and the unique and special features they have.

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Lenny visits classmate Olivia's home and discovers that she has a blended family. Her dad re-married her stepmom Nora and has two sisters, Eve and Tiffany, and two brothers, Toby and Sam. Olivia's brothers and sisters all get snacks for her. Olivia's dad and stepmom take turns reading stories to her. Lenny discovers that despite the unique circumstances all of Olivia's siblings and her parents love her very much.

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Lenny visits classmate Kan's house and learns that Kan comes a multi-cultural family, his dad being American and his mother being Japanese. Kan's family puts on slippers in the house after taking off shoes from outside. Kan and Lenny practice using chopsticks together. Kan's mom play the Koto, a traditional Japanese instrument. Kan's dad cooks them barbecue. Lenny and Kan have a great time in Kan's house and with Kan's family. Lenny learns that Kan's family loves him very much.

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Lenny visits Elsie's home and realizes that Elsie has two moms. She calls one of them "mom" and the other "mommy". Mommy checks her homework, while mom gets wiggles, her cat, down when she gets up on the tree. Mommy gets splinters out when Elsie gets hurt. Mom builds "french fry skyscrapers" for Lenny and Elsie. Mommy and Mom both read to Elsie, and Elsie exclaims that she is an "Elsie Sandwich"! Lenny realizes that Elsie's moms love her very much, just like how his mom loves him very much.

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Lenny visits Skye's two homes and discovers that her parents are divorced. Skye has two homes, two rooms, and two fathers, because her mother was re-married to another man, Nick, after divorcing Skye's dad. Skye's mother, father, and stepfather all taught Skye how to play baseball. She has two homes and two rooms, and both of her rooms are decorated to her liking, showing that all of her parents love her deeply and care about her. The book shows that despite the unique circumstances, Skye's family loves her and cares about her deeply.

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Lenny visits new classmate Connor's home and discovers that his mom is in the military. Connor's dad does the household chores such as cooking dinner and doing the laundry. Connor's mom reads him his bedtime story through online video calling when he goes to sleep. Lenny learns that despite Connor's mother being far away, she still loves Connor deeply.

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Lenny visits Jazz's home and discovers that she has two dads. She calls one of her dads "dad" and the other "Papi". Dad takes care of the horses while Papi usually makes dinner when he is home. Dad and Papi both taught Jazz how to dance. Dad and Papi take turns reading Jazz bedtime stories. Lenny and Jazz spend a great time in Jazz's house and barn. Lenny gets some insight into Jazz's family and learns that she has two dads, as well as has fun with Jazz and her family!

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Classmate Lenny visits Roxy's home and gets some insight regarding Roxy's autism and the different big and small accommodations and assistance she gets to help her communicate with others and get one with her activities of daily living (ADLs). For example, Roxy is told specific times when her mom will pick her up or she will eat dinner. Her family has a chart of specific snacks for specific weekdays. Roxy's mom sometimes needs to redirect her so that Roxy can communicate and play with Lenny. This book shows specific situations in which children with autism behave somewhat differently and help readers understand autism better.

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Over the summer, Tina has grown taller. She struggles with her different height. She has to stand in the back when taking the class picture, which she is upset about. She is supposed to stand next to her best friends Nancy and Luke. They are supposed to be like the three Musketeers. Her jump rope is also too short now. She is asked "how the weather is up there", which she does not think is funny at all. In the end, she is able to find a longer jump rope and saves the ball from the tree. Other children as well as Tina herself learns to accept her different height and learns that being different is nothing weird or wrong, but something to be accepted and appreciated.

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The ploofers have been practicing how to shoof and now are flying. One of the ploofers is scared to go up and says that it is going to stay down. The shoofer and the ploofers try to encourage the little ploofer to try to fly. The ploofer takes one step at a time and learns to fly, as well as learns that with a little bit of courage we can do anything.

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When Aidan was born in the family, everybody thought he was a girl. Aidan wore "girly" clothes and wore what many other girls liked to wear. As Aidan grew up, he jumped on mud and did activities to make his clothes dirty. He did not like his clothes. He also did not like his room. He did not feel like he belonged despite the room being his own. Despite the various struggles and ups and downs, Aidan and his family learned that regardless of whether Aidan was a girl or a boy, the most important thing was Aidan loving the newborn baby with all of his heart.

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The ploofers have been practicing to ploof together. One of the ploofers ploofs differently, in various colors of the rainbow instead of black, like the others. The ploofers say that they do not like it and that it is weird because it is different. That one ploofer gets sad, but meets a friend that shoofs in colors. The ploofers all come and watch and realize that ploofing or shoofing in colors is not weird or wrong, but rather special. Everyone shoofs in colors and they are all happy in the end.

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This book is about two sisters' journey struggling with little sister Jackie being transgender, wanting to be Jack instead of Jackie. From a young age, the big sister sees both more subtle and clearer signs of Jackie identifying as a boy instead of a girl. Jackie does not desire to put ribbons in her hair or play games and engage in activities that big sister wants to. She likes dinosaur bandaids and jumping in mud and does not mind playing in the dirt and getting dirty. Jackie likes playing superhero putting on a cape. The big sister, realizing that her sister is actually a brother, struggles a bit and gets sad to an extent, but later realizes that her sibling is still the same sibling that she loves and learns to accept both Jackie and Jack.

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In this book, the protagonist toad Thomas tries to be a bully, thinking that he won't be able to make a friend. He thinks that he should be a bully since he cannot make a friend. He tries to be a bully picking on others and becoming muscular, but he realizes he is a terrible bully. He then decides to pick on a friend who is smaller than his size, Gomer. Gomer cries, but soon Thomas realizes that he is crying because of a true bully, the baddest-to-the-bone bully he's ever seen. Thomas saves his friend Gomer and when Thomas tells Gomer that he is a terrible bully, Gomer replies that Thomas is a "toadilly terrific friend".

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Maia and Nico are best friends who do everything together. Nico has to move because his father wants to continue his studies elsewhere. Without Nico, Maia feels empty until she finds a new friend and passion. Spring comes and Nico comes back. With a new friend and changes, Maia is worried that she doesn’t have enough space left for Nico in her life. Maia sees Nico and realizes that some things never change.

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Saul has always wanted to fit in. Saul applies and attends pirate school searching for a place where he belongs. Unfortunately, Sam is not “pirate” enough for the pirates and refuses to accept him for who he is. Thankfully, he finds his identity and specializes in the things he is good at including cooking and cleaning. The pirates also realize that without Saul the pirate house becomes really pirate-like, dirty and smelly. They realize that Saul is a good pirate in his own way. They end up living together again as one pirate community and family.

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