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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors for Kids
Historical Fiction for Kids
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors for Kids
Historical Fiction for Kids
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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
5) Tumble
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ALA Youth Media Award Winners 2023
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
Children's and Middle Grade Novels in Spanish and English/Novelas juveniles en español e inglés
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
6) Owl moon
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On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
10) Together we ride
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Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
11) Visiting day
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
12) Finding Papa
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"Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
13) Love you too
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Follows a father and child through a busy day as they play a rhythmic game of call-and-response, starting and ending with "When I say love, you say you."
15) Hammer and nails
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"After her play date is cancelled, a young girl and her dad have a fun day tackling their to-do lists together"--
16) Eye of the storm
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Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community Placid Meadows is anything but placid.
20) Dream on, Amber
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An eleven-year-old half-Japanese and half-Italian girl named Amber worries about making friends at her new school, and misses her dad who left when she was little. So Amber creates an imaginary father who's a secret agent and writes letters from him to her younger sister, Bella. Things quickly spiral, and Amber's good intentions get her in trouble.