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"When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking...
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6th Grade Reading
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.
6) Hair love
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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.
7) Smart cookie
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Frankie creates an online dating profile for her widower father, but discovers that finding the perfect candidate is tougher than she ever expected.
8) 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.
9) 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) Elena's serenade
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In Mexico, a little girl goes on a journey to learn to be a glassblower and gains confidence along the way.
11) Dad bakes
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Picture Books to Celebrate Fathers
Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
Picture Books About Incarceration
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Books for Preschoolers (3-4 years old)
Picture Books About Incarceration
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Dad rises before the sun, goes to work at the bakery where he kneads, rolls, and bakes bread, and as the world starts its day, Dad heads home to his young daughter where they play, read, and bake together.
12) Ella unleashed
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"Twelve-year-old Ella juggles her desire to become a dog show champion and her secret mission to find a girlfriend for her single father, only to learn neither dog nor dad readily bends to her will"--
13) Stroller coaster
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A quick-thinking father thwarts his daughter's impending temper tantrum when he transforms an everyday walk outside into an exciting strollercoaster ride through the neighborhood.
14) Bubble trouble
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Chloe loves musicals and is desperate to go on the class trip to Broadway, but since her mother died money has been tight, and her father's zany inventions are not selling--so with the help of her best friend Sabrina Chloe comes up with a way to make some money by making and selling boba tea.
17) Angela's glacier
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"A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
18) 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.
19) 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"--