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14) Born to fly
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Bird McGill, an eleven-year-old tomboy obsessed with flying in 1942, withholds judgement while her classmates maintain that new Japanese American student Kenji Fujita is a spy, but she realizes Kenji is just as American as she is when they find evidence of real spy activity during their research for a class project.
16) Perfectly prima
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English
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Perfectionistic Jerzey desperately wants to be a good ballet dancer like her sisters, but her efforts to learn are repeatedly thwarted, until she finds help in an unexpected place.
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English
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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
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Books for Kindergarteners
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Mighty Little Girls
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Mighty Little Girls
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.