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Author: Derrick Barnes
Grade Level: K - 3
Call Number: E B261C
Description: Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.
Call Number: E B8143M
Description: Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
Marisol McDonald no combina. Es pelirroja y morena; su ropa es de varios colores; juega a los piratas futbolistas; y le gusta ser única.
Call Number: E C158M
Description: "Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: E C42445H
Description: A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
Call Number: E H6503E
Description: A young girl notices that her eyes are different from those of her friends. Her eyes, as she says, "kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea." The girl goes on to describe how they take after the eyes of her mother and grandmother, explaining all the wonderful attributes she sees in their depths. And when she again reflects on her own eyes, she sees they are both beautiful and powerful.
Call Number: E M282F
Description: As children help a Native American grandmother make fry bread, delves into the history, social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized Indian tribes.
Call Number: E M8925P
Description: Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
Call Number: E SCO848I
Description: When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.
Call Number: E W1841W
Description: Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Call Number: F AL279A
Description: Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Call Number: F P171W
Description: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.