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1) You matter
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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English
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"Auggie knows he's not an ordinary kid. He does plenty of ordinary things. He feels ordinary. He just doesn't look ordinary. Growing up as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face isn't easy, but Auggie is a wonder. He and his trusty sidekick, Daisy, play ball, eat ice cream, and use their imaginations to soar through their days together. They know it's not just Auggie who's different. Everyone is different, and everyone is a wonder - if only they...
3) I am enough
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English
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Black History Month Books
Children's Staff Picks Anti-Racism Essentials for Kids
Kindness Week 2022
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Children's Staff Picks Anti-Racism Essentials for Kids
Kindness Week 2022
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Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.
4) Sulwe
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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2024 Monarch Award
2024 Monarch Nominees
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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2024 Monarch Nominees
Black Authors: Board and Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
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When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
5) Loser
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English
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From the Publisher: Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips over his own feet, and falls down with laughter over a word like "Jabip." Other kids have their own word to describe him, but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. He doesn't know he's not like everyone else. And one winter night, Zinkoff's differences...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
7) Just because
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
8) Big
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Capybara will do anything for his friends. But it's exhausting--and when Capybara meets a potential new friend who doesn't seem to be responding to his advances, Capybara learns a valuable lesson. His friends like him just for who he is"--
10) Perfectly Norman
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English
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Norman is very surprised to have wings suddenly, and he has the most fun ever trying them out high in the sky. But then he has to go in for dinner. What will his parents think? What will everyone else think? Norman feels the safest plan is to cover his wings with a big coat. But hiding the thing that makes you different proves tricky and upsetting. Can Norman ever truly be himself?
11) Buffalo Fluffalo
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Series
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A sweet and silly buffalo who tries to bluff and fluff his way into being bigger than he really is"--
12) Dear Girl
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English
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
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English
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"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie s new friend at school"--
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English
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"Frog wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog. A cat, perhaps, or a rabbit. Maybe an owl? But when a hungry wolf arrives -- a wolf who HATES eating frogs -- our hero decides that being himself isn't so bad after all. In this very silly story with a sly message, told in hilarious dialogue between a feisty young frog and his heard-it-all-before father, young readers will identify with little Frog's desire to be something different, while laughing...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old artist Zailey lives in a utopian community where residents are forbidden from anything that might reveal their image, but when her grandmother discovers her secret collection of portraits, it triggers a chain of events that enables Zailey to view everything in a new way.
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat is learning a new dance--the Cool Cat Boogie! When he hears a groovy beat, he's full of happy feet. But when Grumpy toad tells him, "Pete, you dance all wrong!" Pete is determined to become a better dancer. With the help of his friends and some wise words from Owl, Pete learns that he's the grooviest when he's being himself.
17) Flat cat
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Flat Cat likes being flat--roaming anywhere and happy to be unseen--until one day when he becomes fluffy, he learns to enjoy the attention it brings, and grows to love being seen.
18) Kick push
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"When Epic's family moves to a new neighborhood, he has a hard time making friends and fitting in with his skateboard; but the trick to making new friends is to be yourself!"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
Coming Out Day Stories: Kids
LGBTQIA Pride for Kids
LSS - Pride Youth Fiction
Coming Out Day Stories: Kids
LGBTQIA Pride for Kids
LSS - Pride Youth Fiction
Description
Struggling with her feelings for a female classmate, an eleven-year-old Irish girl tries to confide in her mother, the person she trusts most in the world.--
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