Audience: Student

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  Stronger Than

  A Black Choctaw boy who finds strength in the example and history of his ancestors. Dante finds out hard truths—but also a love that shines through generations.

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  Indiginerds

  Featuring an all-Indigenous creative team, Indiginerds is a graphic novel anthology of 11 stories about young adult indigenous people balancing traditional practice with modern pop culture. A collection of tales from modern indigenous life.

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  Blue Stars, Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem

  In this graphic novel, cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins, and introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan. Can they find a way to work together to fix a problem at their school?

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  We Are Still Here!

  Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Indigenous American people’s life. Cherokee author Traci Sorell has a Native rights advocacy background, and is active in both her tribal community as well as the broader Native American community.

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  Chuseok: A Good Harvest Festival

  Children observe a Korean family celebrate the holiday with offerings, songpyeon rice cakes, games, etc.

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  When We Gather (Ostadahlisiha): A Cherokee Tribal Feast

  A contemporary story about preparing for a Cherokee community feast.

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  Our Moon Festival

  Our Moon Festival presents three stories about diverse families celebrating moon festivals in China, Vietnam and Japan, highlighting their traditions celebrating Zhong Qiu Jie, Tết Trung Thu, and Tsukimi.

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  The Best Kind of Mooncake

  “This mostly true story about celebrating Mid-autumn Festival in China reminds us “that even the smallest acts of kindness hold the power to change lives, for the giver as much as the receiver.” AuYeung

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  I Am Not Jessica Chen

  Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her perfect cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is accepted to Harvard. And Jenna Chen will only ever be a disappointment.…

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  The Magic Paintbrush

  Seventh grader Amy, an Asian American girl is not doing well in her middle school art class, until she picks up an ancient paintbrush at her Loa Loa’s (grandmother) house and unwittingly unleashes the power to make her art real and sometimes dangerous. Can she learn to control the magic?

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  Ilustra: Daybreaker (Book 1)

  Mika Mirasol’s boarding school classmates tease her for clinging to the stories about mythological beings her guardian Lola shared with her. Suddenly, Mika is hearing Lola’s voice coming from a moth. Can all the myths be real? Mika inadvertently uses magic to tie herself to a girl and boy from her class. Now they must…

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  My Name is Ai Lin

  In this empowering story, one child shows that by making the effort to properly pronounce someone’s name, we send the welcoming message that everyone is worthy of respect and dignity. When Ai Lin starts school, none of her classmates can say her name. The children make several attempts, but they still cannot pronounce it properly.…