1_•J SELF DIFFERENCES

Samuel is having a really bad day. His brother Benji, who has autism, helps him feel better.

1_•W VELASQUEZ

Eric and his grandma go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he sees a portrait of Juan de Pareja, a former enslaved person who turned painter. This portrait had a lasting effect on young Eric. This story takes place around Christmas.


1_•K COMMUNITY

Activist Malala Yousafzai talks about her childhood in Pakistan. Growing up, she watched a show where a boy was able to change anything around him using a magic pencil. Malala talks about the things in the world she wishes that she could change if she had a magic pencil.


1_•X VELASQUEZ

Ramsey’s abuela is cooking an octopus stew. And now Ramsey must save Abuela from the octopus. Or is he telling a story? Includes a recipe for Octopus Stew. A picture book that depicts an Afro-Latinx family of Puerto Rican Descent


1_•GH PAINTING [BASQUIAT]

An award-winning biography of Haitian-Puerto Rican street artist Jean Michel Basquiat


1_•N SPANISH [HERRERA]

The author tells of the year when his migrant farm-worker parents settled in a city so that he could go to school, when everything felt strange and upside down to him. Bilingual in Spanish and English.

1_•K COMMUNITY

Children around the world describe their lives, what they eat, where they live, and where they go to school.

1_•K SERVICE

A group of young children in Costa Rica protect baby turtles from predators and poachers as the baby turtles hatch and make their way out to sea.


1_•K IMMIGRANTS

A simple and clear book that explains to children what refugees are.