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Creating Text Sets to Support Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 

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Text sets are intentionally grouped collections of texts and media resources focused on a specific topic, and are a research-based way to grow vocabulary and knowledge for all students. This collection of text sets intentionally elevates culturally relevant content and pedagogy. You might use a culturally relevant text set to fill a gap in relevance, perspectives or representation in your instructional materials, center student interests, or enhance an existing unit.

Each culturally relevant text set:

Centers on a single topic (e.g., women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the sun, moon, and stars)

Is designed to elevate connections to counternarratives, current events, student identities/languages, multiple perspectives and/or social justice

Contain a variety of open source resources (i.e., articles, videos, websites, art, music) at a variety of complexity levels

Purposely orders resources to support students in building vocabulary and knowledge through a volume of reading

In this resource, we wanted to amplify ways to focus on building knowledge and vocabulary through text sets that center culturally relevant pedagogy and students, particularly students who are often marginalized by schools. We focused on the question: How might we design text sets that elevate connections to counternarratives, current events, student identities/languages, multiple perspectives and/or social justice?

Our deepest appreciation to our educator co-designers for their collaboration, guidance, and brilliance: Ifetayo Abdus-Salam, Crystal Graham, Tanya Hill, Tawana Jordan, Tempest NeuCollins and Islah Tauheed.

We hope to expand on this set of prototypes and welcome your feedback on any of these resources by using the "Send Feedback" button at the bottom left hand side of the page.
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Text sets are intentionally grouped collections of texts and media resources focused on a specific topic, and are a research-based way to grow vocabulary and knowledge for all students. This collection of text sets intentionally elevates culturally relevant content and pedagogy.

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Rolling Knowledge & Vocabulary Tracker Template

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Rolling Knowledge & Vocabulary Tracker Template

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Rolling Knowledge and Vocabulary Journal Template.docx

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Building Background Knowledge Through Reading: Rethinking Text Sets

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Building Background Knowledge Through Reading: Rethinking Text Sets

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3.1 How to Construct Your Own Quad Text Set.pdf

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From Acheive the Core Text Set Project Training

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Friendships can change quickly in tween and teen years and are often defining relationships in adolescence. It's not surprising then that friendship has been an enduring and popular topic in Middle Grade and Young Adult literature. Let your students dive into the songs, texts, novels, and videos we have collected as they read and reflect on their evolving understanding of friendships.

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From Teaching Read Across the Day (Seravallo)- Native American activism for issues of water and pollution

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From Teaching Read Across the Day (Seravallo)- Native American activism for issues of water and pollution

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Shifting the Balance (3-5)- Endangered Animals

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Shifting the Balance (3-5)- Endangered Animals

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Text Set Project- Cultural Responsive Pedagogy (The Moon, The Sun and The Stars)

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Text Set Project- Cultural Responsive Pedagogy (The Moon, The Sun and The Stars)

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Coh-Metrix Text Ease & Readability Assessor

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The Text Ease and Readability Assessor (T.E.R.A.) is a tool that uses the Coh-Metrix program to analyze a text by providing measures of text easability and readability. Typical tools for readability largely base their measures on two textual features, word familiarity sentence difficulty.). In contrast, T.E.R.A. analyzes more complex features of text (i.e. cohesion features) in order to provide a more complete assessment of its readability. T.E.R.A. displays a profile of a text based on five textual components that provide the user with a basic but more comprehensive understanding of is the easability and readability of a text.

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Designing book baskets to boost motivation, enthusiasm and engagement

I teach first grade in Anacortes, Washington and my district recently adopted a popular balanced literacy curriculum. I have had wonderings and discussions with colleagues about students reading “at their level” and what this means for our struggling readers. I wondered how my struggling readers would ever access grade-level text if they were always reading “at their level.”  I also believe students have more than one level. If they have knowledge around a topic, they can read a higher level text and I wouldn’t want any books to be off-limits for a child to try and read.  I was recently invited to participate as a pilot classroom in a project to design “book baskets,” or collections of thematically similar books at varying complexity levels, out of the books in my classroom library. This work came along at a perfect time. I wanted to try something different to reach the needs of all of my readers, and ensure they were making progress tackling increasingly complex texts.  This project’s focus was on increasing student motivation, enthusiasm, and engagement when they were given choice in the books they read.

My classroom library is organized into topics and levels.  Each K-6 classroom in my district was given a leveled library. I created book sets with many of these new books. This campaign was about engagement so not only did I create sets based on topic for knowledge/vocabulary growth, I also chose books based on high-interest characters.

Here’s what I recommend doing:

1. Look through your books and see what topics stand out to you. Can you group your existing library into collections on the same theme, topic, or character?

2. After you’ve identified groups, look through your books to see if the texts are linked topically and present opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary. Are there tier 3 words that are in common? Are there tier 2 words or concepts that will be reinforced through reading the linked texts? A guiding question for you can be “What content will my students learn by reading this set of books together?” or “How will students be able to access higher level texts if they read these topic-based sets?”

3. Put the books together in baskets, tubs, or Ziploc bags.  Ideally, the books in your sets will be at a variety of levels. Students can access the increasingly more difficult texts in the sets because they will have learned the vocabulary from the easier levels.

4. This can be done in stages.  You don’t need to create all of your sets before you get started.  As a first grade teacher, I started by creating sets of books from my leveled C-F books.

5. Introduce the book baskets to your class.  Tell your students they will be able to pick the sets they are interested in and become experts on a topic or character.

Book Baskets in My Classroom

This project created 3 positive changes to independent reading time in my classroom:

1. Students are accessing harder books in book baskets because of their knowledge and vocabulary learning in the text sets. By reading texts that are linked, they are building their knowledge of the topic and thus able to easily access more complex texts than they had been doing previously.

2. Students have choice. They choose the book basket they want to read and they choose the individual books they read during independent reading time.  My students have always had choice but in the past it was after they had spent time in “their level” of books.

3. Students don’t know their level.  This was a goal of mine when I began this project.  When asked why they chose a certain book or book basket, I did not want anyone to tell me it was because it was “their level.” Thanks to this project my students are now saying things like, “I chose this book basket because I love cats;” “Fly Guy makes me laugh;” or “My friend told me I would like it so I am trying it.”

Student Reaction to Book Baskets

Student motivation has never been higher. Students are eager to choose books and book baskets. One student suggested creating a sign-up list for the sets since students are anxious to get their hands on certain popular sets! They are excited when it is independent reading time and they get started right away sustaining their reading for 30 minutes. I remember one of my students being so excited about what he accomplished that he shouted to the whole room “Can you believe I read 21 pages?!” after reading about sea life – a topic of his choosing. Another of my students really loves books about Danny the Dog and asked if he could stay in at recess to search the classroom library to see if he could find any other books about Danny to add to our set.

When I look across my class during independent reading time, their eyes are on their books and they are silent or whisper reading. To really know if they are engaged, I have increased talking about books. The students get a chance to share what they read, what they learned from their book, what they enjoyed and why. I believe if they can talk about their reading, they are truly engaged with the work.  They want to share their learning and enjoyment with their friends. My students frequently want to recommend their favorites to their friends, and read aloud to me to show their skills. And they’re right to be proud – many of my students can read books above their level with ease now.

A student writing down new vocabulary she learns as she reads.

Final Thoughts

All of my students, including my reluctant readers, were motivated, enthusiastic, and became better readers because of this campaign. It is now part of the culture in my classroom for students to have choice in what they read during independent reading time. I plan to continue using book baskets. When students finish a set, they choose a new one.  I offer suggestions of topics they might be interested in reading and often they have a new set in mind based on peer recommendations. My students have read many of the sets already, so I will be putting more sets together (using the higher levels in my leveled library) as well as purchasing a few new books.  I have a student who is requesting a text set about sharks and a child who is really interested in wild cats. Their enthusiasm makes me excited to create sets on topics I know they want to read.

About the Author: MJ D’Amelio is a first grade teacher in Anacortes, Washington. MJ holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Child Development, a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, and a Teacher Leadership certificate from the University of Washington. MJ is a Student Achievement Partner Washington State Core Advocate and is continuously seeking to better her classroom instruction and support teachers.

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Illus. by Kadir Nelson
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Illus. Stacy Innerst
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
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Illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal
Roaring Brook Press

Indian No More
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Lee & Low Books/Tu Books

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Illus. by Daniel Egenėus
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Illus. by Marlena Myles
Lerner/Millbrook Press

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Illus. by Teresa Martinez
Charlesbridge

The Moon Within
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Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books

At the Mountain's Base
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Illus. Weshoyot Alvitre
Penguin Random House/Penguin/Kokila WESHOYOT ALVITRE

Room on Our Rock
By Kate and Jol Temple
Illus. by Terri Rose Baynton
Kane Miller

Soldier for Equality: Josė de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War
By Duncan Tonatiuh
Abrams/Abrams Books for Young Readers

The Bridge Home
By Padma Venkatraman
Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen Books

The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen
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Macmillan/Farrar Straus Giroux

Other Words for Home
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Harper Collins/Balzer + Bray

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Illus. by Ekua Holmes
Beach Lane Books

Counting on Katherine
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Illus. by Dow Phumiruk
Henry Holt/Christy Ottaviano

Finding Langston
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Holiday House

The Day War Came
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Illus. by Rebecca Cobb
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Love
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Illus. by Loren Long
Penguin Random House/
G.P. Putnam's Sons

The Crossroads
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Simon Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

The War Outside
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Penguin Group/Dial

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Illus. by David C. Gardner
Sleeping Bear Press

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Illus. by Dan Santat
Disney/Hyperion

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Candlewick Press

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Illus. by Claudia Navarro
Barefoot Books

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Neal Porter Books

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Illus. by Suzanne Kaufman
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Charlesbridge

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Illus. by Ebony Glenn
Simon & Schuster/Salaam Reads

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Roaring Brook Press/First Second

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Illus. by Rafael López
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Illus. by Ekua Holmes
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Illus. by Charles Santoso
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STOLEN WORDS
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Illus. by Gabrielle Grimard
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Illus. by Sonja Wimmer
Annick Press

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Annick Press

ONE LAST WORD
By Nikki Grimes
Bloomsbury

TRELL
By Dick Lehr
Candlewick Press

DREAMLAND BURNING
By Jennifer Latham
Little Brown

WHERE WILL I LIVE?
By Rosemary McCarney
Second Story Press

FLYING LESSONS
Edited by Ellen Oh
Crown

SILENT DAYS, SILENT DREAMS
By Allen Say

LONG WAY DOWN
By Jason Reynolds
Simon & Schuster

THE 57 BUS
By Dashka Slater
Farrar, Strauss, Giroux

MAYA LIN: THINKING WITH HER HANDS
By Susan Goldman Rubin
Chronicle Books

PIECING ME TOGETHER
by Renee Watson
Bloomsbury​

Balcony on the Moon
By Ibtisam Barakat
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan
Talking Leaves
By Joseph Bruchac
Dial Books
Freedom Over Me
by Don Brown
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Watched: Someone Is Always Watching
By Marina Budhos
Wendy Lamb Books
Missing Nimama
By Melanie Florence
Illus. by Francois Thisdale
Clockwise Press
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By Zana Fraillon
Disney Hyperion
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By Jeff Gottesfeld
Illus. by Peter McCarty
Knopf Books for Young Readers
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By Russell Freedman
Holiday House
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By Nikki Grimes
WordSong
Girl in the Blue Coat
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Little, Brown
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By Susan Hood
Illus. by Sally Wern
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Holiday House
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By Sungju Lee
Harry N. Abrams
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By Debbie Levy
Illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley
Simon & Schuster
A Long Pitch Home
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Charlesbridge
Juana & Lucas
By Juana Medina
Candlewick Press
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By Linda Barrett Osborne
Abrams
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By Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Viking Books for Young Readers
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By Jewell Parker Rhodes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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By Margriet Ruurs
Illus. by Nizar Badr
Orca Press
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Philomel Books
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By Caren Stelson
Lerner/Carolrhoda
The Sound of All Things
By Myron Uhlberg
Illus. by Ted Papoulas
Peachtree Publishers
Freedom in Congo Square
By Carole Boston Weatherford
Illus. by R. Gregory Christie
Little bee books
Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist
by Susan Wood
Illus. by Duncan Tonatiuh
Charlesbrid

AUDACITY
by Melanie Crowder
Penguin Random House
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by Jim Murphy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
DROWNED CITY: HURRICANE KATRINA & NEW ORLEANS
by Don Brown
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ORBITING JUPITER
by Gary B. Schmidt
Clarion Books
RED
by Jan De Kinder; Translated by Laura Watkinson
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
DRUM DREAM GIRL: HOW ONE GIRL'S COURAGE CHANGED MUSIC
by Margarita Engle; illus. by Rafael López
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
MY STORY, MY DANCE: ROBERT BATTLE'S JOURNEY TO ALVIN AILEY
by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. Ransome
Simon & Schuster
ECHO
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Scholastic Press
FUNNY BONES: POSADA AND HIS DAY OF THE DEAD CALAVERAS
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Harry N. Abrams
GAME CHANGER: JOHN McCLENDON AND THE SECRET GAME
by John Coy; illus. by Randy DuBurke
Carolrhoda Books
GEORGE
by Alex Gino
Scholastic
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CRAZY HORSE
By Joseph Marshall III, illustrated by Jim Yellowhawk
Abrams: Amulet
JUNA'S JAR
by Jane Bahk; Illlus. By Felicia Hoshino.
Lee & Low
LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET
by Matt De La Peña
Penguin/G.P. Putnam
MAYA'S BLANKET/LE MANTA DE MAYA
by Monica Brown; Illus. by David Diaz
Lee & Low
RUBY ON THE OUTSIDE
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Simon & Schuster
SITTING BULL: LAKOTA WARRIOR AND DEFENDER OF HIS PEOPLE
by S. D. Nelson
Abrams
STELLA BY STARLIGHT
by Sharon Draper
Simon & Schuster
STONE ANGEL
by Jane Yolen; illus. by Katie May Green
Philomel
THE POETRY FRIDAY ANTHOLOGY FOR CELEBRATIONS
Sylvia Vardell & Janet Wong, Eds.
Pomelo Books
TIGER BOY
by Mitali Perkins
Charlesbridge
TWO WHITE RABBITS
by Jairo Buitrago, illus. by Rafael Yockteng; trans. by Elisa Amado
Groundwood
TUCKY JO AND LITTLE HEART
by Patricia Polacco
Simon & Schuster
WANGARI MAATHAI: THE WOMAN WHO PLANTED MILLIONS OF TREES
by Franck Prévot; illus. by Aurélia Fronty
Charlesbridge
VOICE OF FREEDOM: FANNIE LOU HAMER: THE SPIRIT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
by Carol Boston Weatherford; Illus. by Ekua Holmes
Candlewick

I Lived on Butterfly Hill
by Marjorie Agosín
Trans. by E.M. O'Connor; illus. by Lee White
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
El Deafo
by Cece Bell
Harry N. Abrams
Strike!: The Farm Workers Fight for Their Rights
by Larry Dane Brimner
Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek
Caminar
by Skila Brown
Candlewick
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
by Margarita Engle
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain
by Russell Freedman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion
Grandfather Gandhi
by Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
Illus. by Evan Turk
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
by Susan Kuklin
Candlewick
Harlem Hellfighters
by J. Patrick Lewis
Illus. by Gary Kelley
Creative Editions
Voices from the March on Washington
by J. Patrick Lewis & George Ella Lyon
Boyds Mills/WordSong
How It Went Down
by Kekla Magoon
Henry Holt
Migrant
by José Manuel Mateo
Illus. by Javier Martínez Pedro
Harry N. Abrams
The Turtle of Oman
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Harper Collins/Greenwillow
The Red Pencil
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Illus. by Shane W. Evans
Little, Brown
This Day in June
by Gayle E. Pittman
Illus. by Kristyna Litten
APA/Magination
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone
by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Illus. by Frank Morrison
Lee & Low
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
by Duncan Tonatiuh
Harry N. Abrams
House of Purple Cedar
by Tim Tingle
Cinco Puntos
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
by Chieri Uegaki
Illus. by Qin Leng
Kids Can Press
A Time to Dance
by Padma Venkatraman
Penguin/Nancy Paulsen
Like Water ON Stone
by Dana Walrath
Random House/Delacorte
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
Penguin/Nancy Paulsen
Arcady's Goal
by Eugene Yelchin
Henry Holt
Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank
by Paula Yoo
Illus. by Jamel Akib
Lee & Low

Fiction: Realistic & Fantasy
If I Ever Get Out of Here
by Gansworth Eric
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books

The Vine Basket
by La Valley Josanne
Houghton Mif[lin Harcourt/Clarion Books

The Language Inside
by Thompson Holly
Random House/Delacorte

The Servant
by Sharafeddine Fatima
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books

The Milk of Birds
by Whitman Sylvia
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum

Historical Fiction
The Lightning Dreamer
by Engle Margarita
Houghton Mif[lin Harcourt/Harcourt

Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
by Frost Helen
Farrar Straus Giroux/Frances Foster Books

Nonfiction
Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous Kids
by Ellis Deborah
House of Anansi Press/Groundwood

Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music that Changed the World
by Robertson Robbie, Guerinot Jim, Robertson Sebastian, and Levine Jared
Tundra Books

Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People
by Rubin Susan Goldman
Abrams

Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
by Stone Tanya Lee
Candlewick Press

Why Do We Fight? ConWlict, War, and Peace
by Walker Niki
Owlkids

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop
by Hill Laban Carrick
Illus. Theodore Taylor III.
Roaring Brook

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale
by Tonatiuh Duncan
Abrams

When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
by Lewis J. Patrick
Illus. Jim Burke, R. Gregory Christie, Tonya Engel, John Parra, and Meilo So.
Chronicle Books

Graphic Novels
A game for swallows: To die, to leave, to return
by Zeina Abirached
Trans. Edward Gauvin
Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group

Darkroom: A memoir in black and white
by Lila Quintero Weaver
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press

Fiction: Realistic & Fantasy
My book of life by Angel
by Martine Leavitt
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/MacMillan

Starry river of the sky
by Grace Lin
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company

Red thread sisters
by Carol Antoinette Peacock
New York, NY: Viking/Penguin Young Readers

Historical Fiction
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
by Sonia Manzano
New York, NY: Scholastic

No crystal stair: A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller
by Vaunda Michaux Nelson
Illus. by Christie R. Gregory
Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner

Shadow on the mountain: A novel inspired by the true adventures of a wartime spy
by Margi Preus
New York, NY: Amulet

The lynching of Louie Sam
by Elizabeth Stewart
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Annick Press

Hope and tears: Ellis Island voices
by Gwenyth Swain
Honesdale, PA: Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Press

Nonfiction
Kids of Kabul: Living bravely through a never-ending war
by Deborah Ellis
Toronto: Groundwood

We've got a job: The 1963 Birmingham children's march
by Cynthia Levinson
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers

Hand in hand: Ten black men who changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
New York, NY: Jump at the Sun Books/Disney

That mad game. Growing up in a war zone: An anthology of essays from around the globe
by J.L.Powers (Ed.)
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press

Picturebooks
Ganesha's sweet tooth
by Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes
Illus. by Sanjay Patel
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle

The stamp collector
by Jennifer Lanthier
Illus. by François Thisdale
Toronto, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Hands around the library: Protecting Egypt's treasured books
by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya
Illus. by Susan L. Roth
New York, NY: Dial/The Penguin Group

Monsieur Marceau
by Linda Schubert
Illus. by Gerard Dubois
New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press/MacMillan

I lay my stitches down: Poems of American slavery
by Cynthia Grady
Illus. by Michele Wood
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
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While You Are Sleeping
Author & Illustrator: Durga Burnhard
Charlesbridge

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
Author: Carmine T. Bernier-Grand
Illustrator: Raul Colon
Marshall Cavendish

Five Thousand Years of Slavery
Author: Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen
Tundra

Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan
Author: Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter
Annick Press

Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts about Peace
Author: Anna Grossnickle Hines
Henry Holt

Which Side Are You On?
Author: George Ella Lyon
Illustrator: Christopher Cardinale
Cinco Puntos Press

The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
Author: Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore
Illustrator: Susan L. Roth
Lee and Low

PICTURE BOOKS
Saltypie; A Choctaw journey from darkness into light
by Tim Tingle.
Illus. by Karen Clarkson.
Cinco Puntos Press

Seeds of Change: planting a path to peace
by Jen Cullerton Johnson
Lee and Low Books

Black Jack; the ballad of Jack Johnson
by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Illus. by Shane W. Evans,
Roaring Brook Press

Fiction
8th Grade Super Zero
by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich.
Arthur A. Levine Books

Heart of a Samurai; based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro.
by Margi Preus.
Amulet Books

Lost Boy, Lost Girl; escaping civil war in Sudan
by John Bul Dau.
National Geographic

They Called Themselves the KKK
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Houghton Mifflin

Sugar Changed the World
by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos.
Clarion Books

PICTURE BOOKS
14 Cows for America.
Carmen Agra Deedy in collaboration with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah.
Illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez.
Atlanta: Peachtree

NON-FICTION
After Gandhi; one hundred years of nonviolent resistance.
Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmond O'Brien
Charlesbridge

Cycle of Rice, Cycle of Life; a story of sustainable farming.
Jan Reynolds
NY: Lee & Low

Denied, Detained Deported; the dark side of American immigration.
Ann Bausum.
National Geographic

Every Human Has Rights. A Photographic Declaration for Kids.
National Geographic

Truce; the day the soldiers stopped fighting.
Jim Murphy
NY: Scholastic

Bad News for Outlaws; the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.
Illus. by R. Gregory Christie
Minneapolis: Carolghoda

Claudette Colvin; twice toward justice.
Phillip Hoose
NY: Melanie Kroupa ​

Poetry
Alarcon, Francisco X. (2008).
Animal poems of the Iguazu/Animalario del Iguazu.
Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press.

Greenberg, Jan. (2008).
Side by side: New poems inspired by art from around the world.
New York: Abrams.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. (2008).
The boy who dared.
New York: Scholastic.

Realistic Fiction
Carter, Anne Laurel. (2008).
The shepherd's granddaughter.
Toronto: Groundwood Books.

Zenatti, Valerie. (2008).
A bottle in the Gaza Sea.
New York: Bloomsbury Children's Books.

Picturebooks

Fox, Mem. (2008).
Ten little fingers and ten little toes.
Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury.
New York: Harcourt.

Nonfiction (Includes Biography)
Bellward, Stacy. (2008).
Ethiopian voices: Tsion's life.
Photographs by Erlend Berge.
Brooklyn Park, MN: Amharic Kids.

Bolden, Tonya. (2008).
George Washington Carver.
Published in association with the Field Museum, Chicago. New York: Abrams.

D'Aluisio, Faith. (2008).
What the World Eats.
Photographs by Peter Menzel.
Berkeley, CA: Tricycle Press.

Kuklin, Susan. (2008).
No choirboy: Murder, violence, and teenagers on death row.
New York: Henry Holt.
Milway, Katie Smith (2008).

One hen: How one small loan made a big difference.
Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes.
Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press.

Nelson, Kadir. (2008).
We are the ship: The story of Negro League baseball.
New York: Jump- at-the-Sun/Hyperion Books for Children.

Nivola, Claire A. (2008).
Planting the trees of Kenya: The story of Wangari Maathai.
New York: Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ​

​Alexie, Sherman.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Art by Ellen Forney.
Boston: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2007.

Beah, Ishmael.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Compestine, Ying Chang.
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Fleischman, Paul.
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella.
Illustrated by Julie Paschkis.
New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Sis, Peter.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Stanton, Karen.
Papi's Gift.
Illustrated by Rene King Moreno.
Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2007.

Strauss, Rochelle.
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth.
Illustrated by Rosemary Woods.
Toronto, ON: Kids Can Press, 2007.

Thompson, Lauren.
Ballerina Dreams: A True Story.
Photographs by James Estrin.
New York: Holtzbrink, 2007.

Williams, Karen Lynn & Mohammed, Khadra.
Four Feet, Two Sandals.
Illustrated by Doug Chayka.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2007.

Wise, Bill.
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer.
Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth.
New York: Lee & Low, 2007.

Boyne, John.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
New York: David Fickling, 2006.

Campoy, F. Isabel. & Ada, Alma F.
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection.
Illustrated by Felipe Davalos, Viva Escriva, Susan Guevara, Leyla Torres.
New York: Atheneum, 2006.

Diakite, Penda.
I Lost My Tooth in Africa.
Illustrated by Bab Wague Diakite.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Draper, Sharon. Copper Sun. New York: Atheneum, 2006.

Freedman, Russell.
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Greenfield, Eloise.
When the Horses Ride By.
Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
New York: Lee & Low, 2006.

Hopkinson, Deborah.
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Kessler, Cristina.
Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa.
Illustrated by Leonard Jenkins.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Lee-Tai, Amy.
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow.
Illustrated by Felicia Hoshino.
San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press, 2006.

McCutcheon, John.
Christmas in the Trenches.
Illustrated by Henri Sorensen.
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree, 2006.

McKissack, Patricia.
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters.
Illustrated by Andre Carrilho.
New York: Schwartz & Wade, 2006.

Rubin, Susan Goldman. with Ela Weissberger.
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin.
New York: Holiday House, 2006.

Shoveller, Herb.
Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together.
Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2006.

Tingle, Tom.
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom.
Illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2006.

Weatherford, Carol Boston.
Dear Mr. Rosenwald.
Illustrated by Gregory R. Christie.
New York: Scholastic, 2006.

Weatherford, Carol Boston.
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom.
Illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
New York: Jump at the Sun, 2006.

Ahmadi, Farah.
The story of my life: An Afghan girl on the other side of the sky.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Hitler youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow.
New York: Scholastic, 2005.

Carling, Amelia Lau.
Sawdust carpets.
Toronto: Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, 2005.

Chamberlin, Mary and Chamberlin, Rich.
Mama Panya's pancakes: A village tale from Kenya.
Illustrated by Julia Cairns.
Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books, 2005.

Hillman, Laura.
I will plant you a lilac tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's list survivor.
New York: Atheneum, 2005.

Johnson-Davis, Denys.
Goha the wise fool.
Illustrated by Hag Handy and Hany.
New York: Philomel, 2005.

Jurmain, Suzanne.
The forbidden schoolhouse: The true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal and Steinhardt, Bernice.
Memories of survival.
New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Nelson, Marilyn.
A wreath for Emmett Till.
Illustrated by Philippe Lardy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Rappaport, Doreen.
The school is not white! A true story of the Civil Rights Movement.
Illustrated by Curtis James.
New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Reich, Susanna.
José!: Born to dance: The story of José Limon.
Illustrated by Raul Colón.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Ruurs, Martriet.
My librarian is a camel: How books are brought to children around the world.
Honsdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher.
Under the persimmon tree.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2005.

Weatherford, Carole Boston.
A Negro league scrapbook.
Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2005.

Williams, Mary.
Brothers in hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan.
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005.

Yoo, Paula.
Sixteen years in sixteen seconds.
Illustrated by Don Lee.
New York: Lee & Low Books, 2005. ​

MacDonald, Margaret Read.
Three minute tales: Stories from around the world to tell or read when time is short.
August House, 2004.

Myers, Walter Dean.
Here in Harlem: Poems in many voices.
Holiday House, 2004.

Picture Books (Realistic Fiction)
Kyuchukov, Hristo.
My name was Hussein.
Illustrated by Allan Eitzen.
Boyds Mills, 2004.

Raven, Margot Theis.
Circle unbroken.
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Melanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004.

Picture Books (Historical Fiction)
Hall, Bruce Edward.
Henry and the kite dragon.
Illustrated by William Low.
Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Woodson, Jacqueline.
Coming on home soon.
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
Putnam/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Realistic Fiction

Kessler, Cristina.
Our secret, Siri Aang.
Philomel/Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Singer, Marilyn (Ed.).
Face relations: 11 stories about seeing beyond color.
Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Historical Fiction
Chotjewitz, David.
Daniel half human and the good Nazi.
Trans. by Doris Orgel.
Richard Jackson/Atheneum/ Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Nonfiction: Informational Books & Biographies
Freedman, Russell.
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights.
Clarion, 2004.

Hill, Laban Carrick.
Harlem stomp!: A cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance.
Megan Tingley/Little, Brown, 2004.

Turner, Pamela S.
Hachiko: The true story of a loyal dog.
Illus. by Yan Nascimbene.
Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Warren, Andrea.
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy.
Melanie Koupa/Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2004.

Weber, Ednah New Rider.
Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American childhood.
Photos. by Richela Renkun.
Lee & Low Books, 2004

Cave, K. (2003).
One child, one seed: A South African counting book.
Illustrated by Gisèle Wulfsohn.
New York: Henry Holt.

Dennis, Y. W., & Hirschfelder, A. (2003).
Children of Native America today.
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishers.

Edwardson, D. D. (2003).
Whale snow.
Illustrated by Annie Patterson.
Watertown, MA: Talewinds/Charlesbridge.

Fleming, C. (2003).
Boxes for Katje.
Illustrated by Stacey Dressen-McQueen.
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Krull, K. (2003).
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
Illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
New York: Harcourt.

Jung, R, (1996 published in German /2003 published in English).
Dreaming in black & white.
Translated by Anthea Bell.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman Books.

Mankell, H. (2003).
Secrets in the fire.
Translated by Anne Connie Struksrud.
Buffalo, NY: Annick Press.

Morales, Y. (2003).
Just a minute: A trickster tale and counting book.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Morpurgo, M. (1999 published in Great Britain; 2003 published in U.S.)
Kensuke's kingdom.
New York: Scholastic Press.

Naidoo, B.
Out of bounds: Seven stories of conflict and hope.
New York: HarperCollins.

Philip, N. (2003).
Horses hooves and chicken feet: Mexican folktales.
Illustrated by Jacqueline Mair.
New York: Clarion Books.

Sacre, A. (2003).
The barking mouse.
Illustrated by Alfredo Aguirre. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Co.

Shea, P. D., & Weill, C. (2003).
Ten mice for Tet.
Illustrated by To Ngox Trang.
Embroidery by Pham Viet Dinh.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Smothers, E. F. (2003).
The hard-times jar.
Illustrated by John Holyfield.
New York: Frances Foster Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Tingle, T. (2003).
Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Tryszynska, L. as told to Michelle R. McCann. (2003).
Luba: Angel of Bergen-Belsen.
Illustrated by Ann Marshall.
Berkeley CA: Tricycle Press.
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Bial, R. (2002).
Tenement: Immigrant life on the lower east side.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Crowe, C. (2002).
Mississippi trial, 1955.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman/Penguin Putnam.

Freedman, R. (2002).
Confucius: The golden rule.
Illustrated by Frederic Clement.
New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.

Hoffman, M. (2002).
The color of home.
Illustrated by Karin Littlewood.
New York: Phyllis Fogelman Putnam.

Nye, N. S. (2002).
19 varieties of gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.
New York: Greenwillow.

Orozco, J. L. (2002).
Fiestas: A year of Latin American songs and celebration.
Illustrated by Elisa Kleven.
New York: Dutton.

Park, F., & Park, G. (2002).
Good-bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong.
Illustrated by Yangsook Choi.
Washington, DC: National Geographic.

UNICEF. (2002).
A life like mine: How children live around the world.
New York: DK Publishing.

Wong, J. S. (2002).
Apple pie 4th of July.
Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine.
San Diego, CA: Harcourt.

Chen, D. (2001).
China's son: Growing up in the Cultural Revolution.
New York: Delacorte Press.

Cooper, M. L. (2001).
Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers.
New York: Clarion Books.

Garland, S. (2001).
Children of the dragon: Selected tales from Vietnam.
Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
San Diego, CA: Harcourt.

Hoyt-Goldsmith, D. (2001).
Celebrating Ramadan.
Photographs by Lawrence Migdale.
New York: Holiday House.

Johnston, T. (2001).
Any small goodness: A novel of the barrio.
Illustrated by Raúl Colón.
New York: Blue Sky/Scholastic.

Johnston, T. (2001).
Uncle rain cloud.
Illustrated by.Fabricio VandenBroeck.
Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.

Lipp, F. (2001).
The caged birds of Phnom Penh.
Illustrated by Ronald Himler.
New York: Holiday House.

Mckissack, P. C. (2001).
Goin' someplace special.
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
New York City: Atheneum.

Tunnell, M. O. (2001).
Brothers in valor: A story of resistance.
New York: Holiday House.

Deedy, C. A. (2000).
The yellow star: The legend of King Christian X of Denmark.
Illustrated by Henri Sørensen.
Atlanta: Peachtree Publications.

Gold, A. L. (2000).
A special fate : Chiume Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust.
New York: Scholastic Books.

Govenar, A, (Ed.). (2000).
Osceola: Memories of a sharecropper's daughter.
Illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
New York: Hyperion.

Herrera, J. F. (2000).
The upside down boy, El niño de cabeza.
llustrated by Elizabeth Gomez.
San Francisco: Children's Book Press.

Herschler, M. B. (2000).
The darkest corner.
Asheville, North Carolina: Front Street.

Rubin, S. G. (2000).
Fireflies in the dark: The story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin.
New York: Holiday House.

Hamanaka, S., & Ayano O. (1999).
In search of the spirit: The living national treasures of Japan.
Illustrated by Sheila Hamanaka.
Calligraphy by Ayano Ohmi.
New York: Morrow Junior Books.

Harrell, B. O. (1999).
Longwalker's journey: A novel of the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
New York: Dial.

Hopkinson, D. (1999).
A band of angels: A story inspired by the Jubilee Singers.
Illustrated by Raúl Colón.
New York: Atheneum.

Left Hand Bull, J., & Haldane, S. (1999).
Lakota hoop dancer.
Photographs by Suzanne Haldane.
New York: Dutton.

Myers, W. D. (1999).
At her majesty's request: An African princess in Victorian England.
New York: Scholastic.

Silverman, E. (1999).
Raisel's riddle.
Illustrated by Susan Gaber.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Wells, R. (1999).
Streets of gold.
Illustrated by Dan Andreasen.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.

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Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild; illustrated by Charlene Chua (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Finding the courage to speak the truth in one's heart.

The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton (Henry Holt and Company)

An immersive and inclusive world where everyone's magic shines

Forever Cousins by Laurel Goodluck; illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Charlesbridge)

Native American best friends and cousins reconnect and reaffirm their bond after one moves from the city back to the Rez.

The Patron Thief of Bread by Lindsay Eager (Candlewick)

Family is the combination of trust, allegiance, and bread, but at what cost?

The Turtle of Michigan by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow)

Moving to a new place is wonderful but is tempered by missing a beloved grandfather.

My Hands Tell a Story by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrations by Tonya Engel (Reycraft Books)

A girl's grandmother shows how our hands hold memories, power, and possibility.

Gibberish by Young Vo (Levine Querido)

Making new friends and learning to decode gibberish

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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

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Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children in grades K-12. The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text. Each book is read by several reviewers, and books are included on the list by committee assent; annotations do not necessarily reflect the judgment of the entire committee.

Online access to the most recent list is restricted to current NCSS members.

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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

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Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children in grades K-12. The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text.

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12

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NSTA, in conjunction with the Children’s Book Council, is pleased to announce the list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students. Representing the best science trade books published in 2025 for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, the books featured on the list include captivating stories, compelling characters, and beautiful illustrations.

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