children

A brave young girl has many new experiences on a family vacation.

Introduces young children to various colors through labeled photographs of foods that are red, orange, yellow, green, purple, pink, white, and brown.

The author reveals the humiliation that came with the daily outing of his family's hunger and poverty in sixth grade when he had to announce that he participated in his school's free lunch program. While constantly hungry, Ogle also recounts how much he craved the love of family in the face of his parents' abuse and brutality.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

"This book provides a deep dive into the protections and rights promised to children by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and before adulthood and how to defend them"--Provided by publisher.

"This is a truth about growing up: Once in your life, sometime after your first memory . . . something is going to happen to you that doesn't happen to anyone else. . . . For Millie, it's something really sad. Lolo, her neighbors' infant daughter, dies unexpectedly . . . on the night Millie babysits. It's not Millie's fault. There's nothing she could have done. And there's nothing she can do now,. So how does she go on?"--Provided by publisher.

"Rex [Ogle] captures and celebrates the powerful presence [of] a woman he could always count on--to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him to the library where he could take out as many books as he wanted, and to offer safety when darkness closed in. Throughout a coming of age marked by violence and dysfunction, Abuela's red-brick house in Abilene, Texas, offered Rex the possibility of home, and Abuela herself the possibility for a better life. 'Abuela, Don't Forget Me' is a . . . portrait of the transformative and towering woman who believed in Rex even when he didn't yet know how to believe in himself"--Provided by publisher.

"The Rebellious Read Aloud attempts to empower educators to courageously converse with students around important and culturally relevant current topics in a way that's developmentally appropriate and meets ELA and social justice standards. After laying the foundation for why diverse books and difficult conversations about "hushed topics" are important; how to create classroom conditions that scaffold students' deep thinking and conversations using picture books; and how to address concerns from students, colleagues, and parents, this book presents 45 read aloud lessons around current, diverse picture books that can spark deep conversation and learning about self, others, and the world. Author Vera Ahiyya is beloved by thousands of educators worldwide as The Tutu Teacher (@thetututeacher and @diversereads on Instagram) for her love of children's books, her enthusiasm for teaching young children, and her passion for facilitating conversations about race, identity, and social justice using read alouds as an entry point. This is her first professional book - sure to spark the rebellious reader inside elementary teachers everywhere"--.

Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and finally getting a cellphone of her own; but after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well--but trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing--and soon it seems like everybody is mad at her, and the cellphone of her dreams is getting further and further away.

"In this . . . picture book, a repeated call to action reminds young readers that everything in our world is connected"--Provided by publisher.