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"From New York Times bestselling Joanna Ho, of Eyes that Kiss in the Corners, and award-winning educator Liz Kleinrock comes a powerful companion picture book about adoption and family. A young girl who is a transracial adoptee learns to love her Asian eyes and finds familial connection and meaning through them, even though they look different from her parents'. Her family bond is deep and their connection is filled with love. She wonders about her...
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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Pets!
Picture Books for Black Lives
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Pets!
Picture Books for Black Lives
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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More than anything Lola would like a cat, but first she must learn how to care for it.
6) Bad Bella
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After a family leaves her at the pound, Bella is taken in by a new couple, but begins to worry that she will be abandoned again.
9) Gus
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Mom Peterson has trouble finding a family good enough to adopt the adorable Labradoodle, Gus.
11) Soar
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Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
12) My new mom & me
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"A puppy comes to live with his adoptive mother, who is a cat."--
13) Edward
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This puppy is quite a handful. He doesn't listen, he's obsessed with his toy sheep, and he can't ride in the car without...um...getting sick. Has Lizzie met her match, or will she be able to train this pugnacious pug?
15) Otis
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When Michael and Mia hear about an abandoned kitten at the animal shelter, they volunteer to take Otis in until they can find him a permanent home.
16) Kodiak
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While heading to a cabin in the woods for a girls' weekend, Lizzie Peterson and her friends rescue a wild, energetic Malamute stray with a mind of his own, that they try to tame and find a home.
17) Jake
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Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home.
18) I found a kitty!
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When Arfy finds a homeless kitten, he writes letters to prospective owners, hoping to find the perfect home for his new friend.
19) Hattie Peck
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All Hattie the hen wanted was an egg of her own, so one day she left her cosy coop to go on an adventure to find all the abandoned eggs in the world.
20) Sweet honesty
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Fifth-grader Carmen Browne learns a series of hard lessons about friendship, boys, family, and God, when she repeatedly disobeys her parents, trying to prove how grown-up she is.