Summer of Discovery -- Our Connected World


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Book cover for Priya dreams of marigolds & masala.
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Priya lives in the United States and her family is from India. She feels the magic of the place her family comes from through her Babi Ba's colorful descriptions of India--from the warm smell of spices to the swish-swish sound of a rustling sari. Together, Priya and Babi Ba make their heritage live on through the traditions that they infuse into their everyday lives.
Book cover for Project Mulberry.
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"Julia Song and her friend Patrick would love to win a blue ribbon, maybe even two, at the state fair. This time, though, they're having trouble coming up with just the right plan. Then Julia's mother offers a suggestion: They can raise silkworms, as she did when she was a girl in Korea. Patrick thinks it's a great idea. But for Julia, a simple summer project turns out to be much more complicated than she thought." -- Ingram.
Book cover for P.S. I miss you.
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Eleven-year-old Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant sister away to stay with a distant great-aunt. All Evie wants is for her older sister to come back. But when her parents forbid her to even speak to Cilla, she starts sending letters. Evie writes letters about her family, torn apart and hurting. She writes about her life, empty without Cilla. And she writes about the new girl in school, June, who becomes her friend,...

84. Refugee

Book cover for Refugee.
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Book cover for Same, same but different.
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Pen pals Elliott and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries--America and India--they both love to climb trees, own pets, and ride school buses.
Book cover for Same sun here.
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A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
Book cover for Seven brave women.
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A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat.
Book cover for Some places more than others.
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"Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected." --from Cataloger.
Book cover for Someone builds the dream.
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Celebrates the skilled women and men who work to see the plans of architects, engineers, and designers brought to life.
Book cover for Somewhere a bell is ringing.
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"With its attention-grabbing, hand-painted paper collages and rhyming couplets, Barbara Nye's bedtime story asks readers to see themselves as part of the global ecosystem and urges us to remember that we're all connected on our one-and-only planet."--Amazon.
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 Tea cakes for Tosh.
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Tosh has spent many days in the kitchen with his grandmother, Honey, watching her bake cookies and listening to tales of their slave ancestors, so when Honey's memory starts to fail, Tosh is able to help with the cookies and more. Includes a recipe for tea cakes.
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 To Baby, from Daddy: A Love Letter from a Father to a Daughter.
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'Wanting to tell his young daughter everything, though knowing she’s not at an age to fully grasp the full love a father has, To Baby, From Daddy is a loving composition of paternal love and advice"-- Simon & Schuster.
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).