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Eakin Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
960 KNI
1 available
960 KNI
1 available
Hickman Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
960 KNI
1 available
960 KNI
1 available
Inglewood Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
960 KNI
1 available
960 KNI
1 available
Description
Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.
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Cockrill Elementary - Everyone
E Eng
1 available
E Eng
1 available
Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Eng
1 available
E Eng
1 available
Explore! Community School - Everyone
E ENG
1 available
E ENG
1 available
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Park Avenue Elementary - Kids Audiobook
TALKING BOOK E Eng
1 available
TALKING BOOK E Eng
1 available
Description
A boy helps his father keep their very old car running as they make a trip to Havana for his newborn cousin's zero-year birthday. Includes author's note about cars in Cuba.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E SEL
1 available
E SEL
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E SEL
1 available
E SEL
1 available
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E SEL
1 available
E SEL
1 available
Description
"Kweku has grown up hearing stories about the mischievous spider Anansi. He is given the nickname Anansi by his father because of his similarly cheeky ways. On a holiday to visit his beloved Grandma in Ghana, Anansi the spider and Anansi the boy meet, and discover a magical pot that can be filled with whatever they want. Anansi fills it again and again with his favorite red-red stew, and eats so much that he feels sick. Will he learn to share this...
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Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home. Angelina's heart aches for Jamaica, and no matter how much Mama talks of having a better life in New York, Angelina still dreams about mangos, johnnycake, rainbow-colored birds, and the warmth of the sand under her feet. Then one day Mama sees something in the paper about Carnival in Brooklyn,...
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Car
1 available
E Car
1 available
Moss Elementary - Everyone
E Car
1 available
E Car
1 available
Mt. View Elementary - Everyone
E Car
1 available
E Car
1 available
Description
Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day, Anita must face her fears to begin a new life in a new country. Will she be brave enough to enter the belly of the beast and take flight to new adventures?
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Robert Churchwell Elementary - Everyone
E SEN
1 available
E SEN
1 available
Smith Springs Elementary - Everyone
E SEN
1 available
E SEN
1 available
Description
"Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can't carry it on her head like her older brothers and sisters. In this charming and poetic family story set in Jamaica, Prize-winning author Olive Senior shows young readers the power of determination, as Anna achieves her goal and overcomes her fear." --Publisher.
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"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...
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Explore! Community School - Everyone
E ATI
1 available
E ATI
1 available
Ruby Major Elementary - Everyone
E Ati
1 available
E Ati
1 available
Description
Join Baby and his doting mama at a bustling southwest Nigerian marketplace for a bright, bouncy read-aloud offering a gentle introduction to numbers.
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Cora Howe School - Teen Everyone
E BEL
1 available
E BEL
1 available
Granbery Elementary - Everyone
E BEL
1 available
E BEL
1 available
Napier Elementary - Everyone
E BEL
1 available
E BEL
1 available
Description
While visiting her grandmother in the Sea Islands, a young girl hears about her African heritage and learns to weave a sea grass basket.
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Davis Early Learning Center - Everyone
E Ago
1 available
E Ago
1 available
Hickman Elementary - Everyone
E Ago
1 available
E Ago
1 available
Ross Early Learning Center - Kids Fiction
MUSIC AGO
1 available
MUSIC AGO
1 available
Description
Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.
11) Bintou's braids
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Glendale Elementary - Everyone
E DIO
1 available
E DIO
1 available
Margaret Allen Middle - Teen Everyone
E DIO
1 available
E DIO
1 available
McGavock Elementary - Everyone
E DIO
1 available
E DIO
1 available
Description
When Bintou, a little girl living in West Africa, finally gets her wish for braids, she discovers that what she dreamed for has been hers all along.
12) The blue pickup
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"Ju-Girl's favorite days are the ones spent with Granddad in his garage, fixing cars and hearing stories about his old blue pickup. Granddad used to drive the blue pickup all over the island, bringing happiness to many. And now it just sits in the driveway. One day, Ju-Girl asks Granddad if he'd ever fix it, and he's unsure at first. But the pair soon finds out just what it takes to restore the memory of the blue pickup and to create new stories along...
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Red
1 available
E Red
1 available
Glenview Elementary - Everyone
E Red
1 available
E Red
1 available
Description
"A young boy loses both parents as they attempt to flee Haiti for a better life, and afterward is only able to process his grief and communicate with the outside world through playing the drums. Includes author's note"--
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 SAN
1 available
398.2 SAN
1 available
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 SAN
2 available
398.2 SAN
2 available
Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
398.2 SAN
2 available
398.2 SAN
2 available
Description
A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love.
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Cole Elementary - Everyone
E Oko
1 available
E Oko
1 available
Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Oko
1 available
E Oko
1 available
Glenview Elementary - Everyone
E Oko
1 available
E Oko
1 available
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Awakened by strange sounds, Anyaugo discovers a giant chicken in her kitchen and has to muster the courage to remove it before the chicken destroys her family's preparations for the New Yam Festival.
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Biography
B SIM GRE
1 available
B SIM GRE
1 available
Smith Springs Elementary - Kids Biography
B SIM GRE
1 available
B SIM GRE
1 available
Waverly-Belmont Elementary - Kids Biography
B SIM GRE
1 available
B SIM GRE
1 available
Description
"A story inspired by events in the boyhood of Winston "Spree" Simon, a pioneer in the development of the steel drum, in which he discovers he can create tunes by banging on discarded cans. Includes author's note, glossary, and sources"--Provided by publisher.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography
B THO YEB
1 available
B THO YEB
1 available
Amqui Elementary - Kids Biography
B YEB THO
2 available
B YEB THO
2 available
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E Tho
1 available
E Tho
1 available
Description
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today,...
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Mt. View Elementary - Everyone
E Mar
1 available
E Mar
1 available
Mt. View Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
782.42 Mar
1 available
782.42 Mar
1 available
Ruby Major Elementary - Everyone
E MAR
1 available
E MAR
1 available
Description
In this illustrated version of Bob Marley's song, a young boy, with the encouragement of three little birds, enjoys life and will not let anything get him down.
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"Joseph misses sharing meals with lots of people like he did back in the refugee camp, so when the neighbors finally come over, it's a feast! A companion book to Joseph's Big Ride, described in Kirkus as "a joyful, upbeat tale." When Joseph and Mama lived in a refugee camp in East Africa, everyone cooked and ate together. And Joseph could always hear someone playing the awal. It's much too quiet and lonely in his new home. Though Whoosh, the girl...
20) The field
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Pau
1 available
E Pau
1 available
Bellshire Elementary - Everyone
E Pau
1 available
E Pau
1 available
Cole Elementary - Everyone
E Pau
1 available
E Pau
1 available
Description
Children form teams, build a pitch, and play a joyous game of soccer, in a book with English and Creole (as spoken in Saint Lucia) vocabulary words.