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Any Child 1095
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Folklore 269
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Anishinaabe 11
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Alabama 42
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Around the World 188
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China 118
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Eastern Asia 186
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England 10
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Europe 34
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Georgia 23
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Germany 10
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Guatemala 11
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Guinea 1
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Haiti 13
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Idaho 2
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Imaginary 112
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India 87
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Japan 69
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Jordan 2
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Laos 4
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Mali 5
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New Jersey 14
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New Mexico 11
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New York 157
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Nigeria 12
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Northern America 1038
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Norway 3
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Nunavut 25
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Oceania 25
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Ohio 12
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Oregon 3
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Outerspace 19
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Paraguay 1
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Pennsylvania 23
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Peru 9
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Poland 4
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Portugal 3
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Russia 3
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South Africa 26
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Southern Asia 112
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Syria 6
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Taiwan 2
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Tennessee 21
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Texas 24
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Tunisia 1
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Turkey 9
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Uganda 7
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Unspecified 1464
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Utah 1
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Vietnam 10
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Virginia 26
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Western Asia 52
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Yemen 1
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Zambia 1
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Zimbabwe 3
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Activism 320
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Adoption 35
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Bi/multilingual 794
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Disability 204
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Diverse Family 363
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LGBQ 72
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STEM 243
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Fiction 2709
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Non-Fiction 853
Something beautiful
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
Summer sun risin’
An African American boy enjoys a summer day on his family's farm, milking the cows, fishing, and having fun
The big box
Because they do not abide by the rules written by the adults around them, three children are judged unable to handle their freedom and forced to live in a box with three locks on the door
The blue roses
A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses.
The colors of us
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature
The jade necklace
When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her
The pot that Juan built
A cumulative rhyme summarizes the life's work of renowned Mexican potter, Juan Quezada. Additional information describes the process he uses to create his pots after the style of the Casas Grandes people
The secret footprints
A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
The secret to freedom
Great Aunt Lucy tells a story of her days as a slave, when she and her brother, Albert, learned the quilt code to help direct other slaves and, eventually, Albert himself, to freedom in the North