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Pepita on Pepper Street / Pepita en la calle Pepper

2008

by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman and Alex Pardo DeLange

Pepita, unhappy about her family's move to a street where everything is new to her, is not very friendly to her neighbors as they pass by, but later has another chance to make friends.

Moony Luna

2005

by Jorge Argueta and Elizabeth Gómez

Five-year-old Luna is afraid she will find monsters at her new school until a kind teacher and her new classmates show her that she has nothing to fear

Don’t say a word, mama / No digas nada, mamá

2013

by Joe Hayes and Esau Andrade

Sisters Rosa and Blanca are so kind, thoughtful, and generous--and such good gardeners--that their mamá who lives between the two winds up with a great deal of corn, tomatoes, and red hot chiles.

¡A bailar!

2011

by Judith Ortiz Cofer and Christina Ann Rodriguez

A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play

Hope’s gift

2012

by Kelly Starling Lyons and Don Tate

A runaway slave during the Civil War, Hope's father returns after the Emancipation Proclamation as a member of the U.S. Colored Troops

Busing Brewster

2010

by Richard Michelson and Robert Roth

Bused across town to a school in a white neighborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing

Under the freedom tree

2014

by Susan. VanHecke and London Ladd

Tells of the Civil War's first contraband camp that began when three escaped slaves were granted protection at a Union-held fort, prompting runaway slaves to seek freedom there and build the country's first African American community

Sit-in

2010

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and J. Brian Pinkney

"This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit -in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement"-- Amazon.com

Riding to Washington

2008

by Gwenyth Swain and David Geister

"A young white girl rides the bus with her father to the March on Washington in 1963--at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his "I Have a Dream" speech. She comes to see that Dr. King's dream belongs not just to Blacks but to all Americans"--Provided by publisher

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