Summer of Discovery -- Our Connected World


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Book cover for Good night stories for rebel girls.
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories about the lives of incredible female figures from the past and the present, this volume recognizes women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: some for new opportunities, some out of necessity.
Book cover for Inside out & back again.
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Book cover for The magical reality of Nadia.
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Nadia loves fun facts. Here are a few about her: She collects bobbleheads -- she has 77 so far; She moved from Egypt to America when she was six years old; The hippo amulet she wears is ancient... as in it's literally from ancient Egypt; She's going to win the contest to design a new exhibit at the local museum. Because how cool would that be?! (Okay, so that last one isn't a fact just yet, but Nadia has plans to make it one.) But then a new kid shows...
Book cover for A place at the table.
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"Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens."--
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.