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21) Perfectly Parvin
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7th-8th Grade Reading List
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month YA Books 2022
PG Reads for Teens and Tweens
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month YA Books 2022
PG Reads for Teens and Tweens
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"After being dumped at the beginning of freshman year, Iranian-American Parvin Mohammadi sets out to win the ultimate date to Homecoming"--
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"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths,...
25) Moo dog
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Moo Dog and Moo Bird are different form the other animals. The other animals laugh at Dog when he moos instead of barks, but Dog and Bird show the others that being different can be fun.
26) Cannonball
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Diverse Books- Pasifika Peoples, Pacific Islanders, Polynesia, and Indigenous Peoples of Oceania
Pacific Islander: Children's Books
Pacific Islander: Children's Books
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Determined to execute the perfect cannonball dive, a boy tries to follow everyone's advice but finally hears Nan, an expert and former champion, who advises doing it his own way
27) Playing possum
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Possums play dead when threatened so Alfred, an unusually nervous possum, avoids attention and even friendship until he meets Sofia, an armadillo who curls into a ball when nervous. Includes facts about the unusual defense mechanisms of animals pictured in the book.
28) A girl like you
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Encourages every girl to embrace all of the things that make her unique, to be strong and kind, to stand up for herself, and more.
29) What I am
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A young narrator describes herself as many things at the same time - a girl, a granddaughter, Indian, American, both selfish and generous, mean and kind - and these seeming contradictions are precisely what makes her a unique individual.
33) The peculiar pig
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Penny the puppy, puzzled by why she is different from the piglets she is raised with, uses her ear-splitting growls to chase away a snake that threatens her family.
34) Purplicious
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When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
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Books with a Sprinkle of Spanish
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
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While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern...
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"Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side"--
38) A normal pig
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"Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she'll be when she grows up. But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn't like any of the same things she used to...the things that made her Pip. A wonderful springboard for conversations with children, at home and in the classroom, about diversity and difference."--Amazon.com.
39) Brave new girl
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Dahlia 16 is one of five thousand girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Trigger 17 thinks she's interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can't stop thinking about him, even though that means breaking the rules, she realizes she's flawed, too. But if she's flawed, then so are all her identicals. They'll all be recalled... and destroyed. Suddenly the girl who always follows the...