VSBA 2021 -- Primary List

It's a brand-new day, and a young girl decides to take on the world like a brave explorer heading off on an epic fairytale quest.

A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.

This inspiring biography tells the story of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, a woman who championed bilingual literature.When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a lush landscape...

Out of this tank, I must be free. I must explore the open sea! Follow Inky the octopus as he escapes from the National Aquarium of New Zealand to the ocean! Based on a true story, Inky the Octopus chronicles the adventure that the real-life Inky might have taken on his escape to freedom in the open ocean!

Shark interrupts the filming of Underwater World With Bob, scattering the other creatures (and the audience), but he claims it is all a terrible misunderstanding--that he would never think of eating the fish, the squid, the audience...or Bob.

When he is paired with a girl who has lost her legs, Rescue worries that he isn't up to the task of being her service dog.

A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.

Future scientist Kimmy eagerly shares information about dinosaurs during a school field trip until classmate Jake tells her "girls aren't scientists," but Mr. Tiffin sets her straight.

When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together.

Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.