Grade Level: Elementary 3–5
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Human Rights
“All people deserve to be respected and valued. Regardless of where we were born, how much we have, what we believe or think, or our age or the color of our skin–all lives are important and we deserve to live them with satisfaction, justice, safety, and freedom. There are many different kinds of human rights…
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I Am My Name: A Girl’s Journey to Finding Her Cree Family
A very young girl was removed from her home during Canada’s Sixties Scoop, which tore children from their Indigenous communities. She woke in a new home, with a new family and a new name. How is she going to find her way home?
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My Language Rights: A Child’s Right to Their Language
Children explore how our words carry our memories, heritage, and cultural identity. This timely picture book presents a child-friendly manifesto for linguistic rights, celebrating the fundamental freedom to speak and learn in our mother tongues.
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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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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.…
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Sarang Saves the School
If the school needs more students to keep its doors open, why not offer local grandmothers, including her own beloved Halmeoni, the education they were denied as girls? Set in contemporary South Korea and inspired by real events.