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CHINESE CULTURE Mommy Far, Mommy Near (Primary)

Peacock

Elizabeth, who was born in China, describes the family who has adopted her and tries to sort out her feelings for her unknown mother.

CHINESE CULTURE Jin Woo (Intermediate)

Bunting

Davey is dubious about having a new adopted brother from Korea, but when he finds out that his parents still love him, he decides that having a baby brother will be fine.

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MEXICAN I Love Saturdays y domingos (Intermediate)

Flor Ada

A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

KOREA Name Jar (Intermediate)

Choi

After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea (Intermediate)

Thomas

A collection of poems exploring the theme of African-American identity.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN Shake it to the One You Love the Best (Primary)

Mattox

Songs and Lullabies from black musical traditions.

CHINESE Henry's First Moon Birthday (Primary)

Look

A young girl helps her grandmother with preparations for the traditional Chinese celebration to welcome her new baby brother.

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AUTISM Ian's Walk: A Story about Autism (Intermediate)

Lears

A young girl realizes how much she cares for her autistic brother Ian when he gets lost at the park.

CEREBRAL PALSY Stretching Ourselves/Kids With Cerebral Palsy(Intermediate)

Carter

Describes cerebral palsy and focuses on the daily lives of three children with varying degrees of this condition.

DOWN SYNDROME Russ and the Almost Perfect Day (Primary)

Rickert

Russ, a student with Down syndrome, is having a perfect day until he realizes that the five-dollar bill he has found probably belongs to a classmate.

LEARNING Think About Having a Learning Disability (Intermediate)

Flynn

Describes what is like to have a learning disability and how different people handle the challenges these difficulties present.

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Quilted Landscape (Intermediate)

Strom

How My Family Lives in America (Primary

Kuklin

African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American children describe their families' cultural traditions. 

Different Just Like Me (Primary)

Mitchell

While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.

Colors of the World: Music From the Four Corners Allegro Music (Intermediate)

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories (Intermediate)

Mazer

Fourteen stories by American authors from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, including Duane Big Eagle, Nicholasa Mohr, Lensey Namioka, and Robert Cormier.

All the Colors We Are (Primary)

Kissinger

The story of how we get out skin color.

If the World Were a Village (Intermediate)

Smith

Teaching children about the global village: nationalities, languages, ages, religions, food, air and water, schooling and literacy, money and possessions, electricity, village in the past ,village in the future.

(audio) Bein' With You This Way (Primary)

Nikola-Lisa

A poem about human differences and similarities, accompanied by paintings of an interracial group of children sharing a sunny day and the universal childhood joy of just being together.

(audio) World Playground (Intermediate)

(audio) Where I Come From: Songs and Poems from Many Cultures (Intermediate)

Cockburn

Poems and songs from many cultures.

Best Best Colors (Primary)

Hoffman

Who's in a Family? (Primary)

Skurtch

My Two Uncles (Primary)

Vigna

Elly's grandfather has trouble accepting the fact that his son is gay.

Black is Brown is Tan (Intermediate)

Adoff

Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.

Colors of Us (Primary)

Katz

Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.

All the Colors of the Earth (Primary)

Hamanaka

Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.

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Richard Wright and the Library Card (Intermediate)

Miller

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black Boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Other Side (Primary)

Woodson

Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.