Summer of Discovery -- Our Connected World


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Book cover for The stars in my Geddoh's sky.
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Alex's Arabic-speaking grandfather comes to visit the United States, and Alex learns about his grandfather's Middle Eastern homeland.
Book cover for This love.
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Celebrate love from all around the world! A series of gentle rhymes sensitively explores what love feels like to children. This timeless book shows that love is a common language with the power to unite, wherever you come from. Age 3+
Book cover for Three squeezes.
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Follow a father and his son from babyhood to basketball games to graduation and beyond in this loving saga about the unbreakable bond between generations.
Book cover for Watercress.
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"Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents." --
Book cover for We are a garden.
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This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centuries.
Book cover for We are water protectors.
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Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all . . . When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
Book cover for We came to America.
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Celebrates United States immigration and the country's diverse immigrant heritage.
Book cover for We're different, we're the same.
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"We all may look very different from each other -- on the outside. But we're all more alike -- both inside and out -- than we know. And that is truly something to celebrate!" (Back cover).
Book cover for What matters.
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In this picture book, the ripple effect of one child's small action shows how we can all make a big environmental difference.
Book cover for What the eagle sees.
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"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
Book cover for When I found grandma.
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"Maya longs to see her grandmother, but when Grandma arrives from far away for a visit, she is not quite what Maya expected."--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for Where are you from?.
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"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
Book cover for Whoever you are.
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Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join humanity together, such as pain, joy, and love. On board pages.
Book cover for Yo soy Muslim.
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A lyrical celebration of multiculturalism as a parent shares with a child the value of their heritage and why it should be a source of pride, even when others disagree.
Book cover for You are never alone.
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"[This] picture book ... explores how humans are inextricably connected to nature"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for You hold me up.
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This vibrant picture book, beautifully illustrated by celebrated artist Danielle Daniel, encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other’s well-being in their everyday actions. Author Monique Gray Smith wrote this book to prompt a dialogue among young people, their care providers and educators about reconciliation and the importance of the connections children make with their friends, classmates and families....
Book cover for Your name is a song.
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"Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with...