The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Star By Nicola Yoon Published by Random House Children’s Books A 2016 National Book Award Finalist Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat Description Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student,...
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French Toast By Kari-Lynn Winters Illustrated by Francois Thisdale Published by Pajama Press Age Range: 5 – 8 Years Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N | Worldcat Description Phoebe—half Jamaican, half French-Canadian—hates her school nickname of “French Toast.” So she is mortified when, out on a walk with her Jamaican grandmother, she hears a classmate shout it out at her. To make things worse, Nan-Ma, who is blind, wants an explanation of the name. How can Phoebe describe the color of her skin to someone who has never seen it? “Like tea, after you’ve added the milk,” she...
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America, My New Home By Monica Gunning Illustrated by Ken Condon Published by Boyds Mills Press “Complemented by colorful chalk-and-oil pastels, the poems speak to anyone new to this country, or, as in “Alone at Night,” in which the girl must stay home alone while her mother goes to school at night, to children who have ever felt afraid or helpless.” —Kirkus Reviews Find a copy at Amazon | IndieBound | B&N Description From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring....
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