Slate, Joseph.
Summary: Miss Bindergarten involves all of the kindergarten students in executing a spectacular circus in the classroom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SLARaby, Meg
Summary: Piper and her little brother Otto, who is on the autism spectrum, are excited to attend a birthday party for their friend Ruthie. In kid-friendly language, Piper explains the accommodations Otto and Ruthie, who is also autistic, need in order to feel safe and secure in a stimulating new environment, such as wearing headphones to keep distracting noises muffled. The book provides explanations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2022
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Summary: An inspiring story of identity and self-esteem from celebrated athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick. When Colin Kaepernick was five years old, he was given a simple school assignment: draw a picture of yourself and your family. What young Colin does next with his brown crayon changes his whole world and worldview, providing a valuable lesson on embracing and celebrating his Black identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kaepernick Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KAEMacalino Rutledge, Renee
Summary: A joyful story for multicultural and mixed families! One Hundred Percent Me takes young readers along a little girl's exploration of her mixed race identity. The story celebrates our differences as she learns how to claim her belonging and honor the heritage that makes her unique and wholly herself!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloom Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Ulysses Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACSteele, K-Fai
Summary: "Pip is a normal pig who does normal stuff: cooking, painting, and dreaming of what she'll be when she grows up. But one day a new pig comes to school and starts pointing out all the ways in which Pip is different. Suddenly she doesn't like any of the same things she used to...the things that made her Pip. A wonderful springboard for conversations with children, at home and in the classroom,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STEGreenawalt, Kelly
Summary: "Princess Truly's rhyming adventures are a celebration of individuality, girl power, diversity, and dreaming big!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, An Imprint os Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREPearsall, Shelley
Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD PEAStuart, Scott
Summary: "My Dad has a shadow that's blue as a berry, and my Mum's is as pink as a blossoming cherry. There's only those choices, a 2 or a 1. But mine is quite different, it's both and it's none. A heartwarming and inspiring book about being true to yourself, by best-selling children's book creator Scott Stuart. This story considers gender beyond binary in a vibrant spectrum of colour." -- Provided by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Larrikin House 2022
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Summary: Brian the lion loves to dance, but since lions are supposed to be fierce he hides his talent from his lion friends--until they explain that they also have talents that are not particularly fierce.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TINWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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Summary: A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and Brown children everywhere reminds them how much they matter, that they have always mattered and they always will.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Charles 2020Hong, Jess
Summary: "Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HONGigot, Jami
Summary: A lonely boy feels like a stranger on his own planet until the day his radio bursts to life with the rhythm of stardust energy. Includes notes and facts about David Bowie's life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIGClark, Neil
Summary: Rusty the Robot is a charming story about self-discovery and what happens when Belle, Hoot and Twango join forces to encourage Rusty to appreciate that his differences make him unique. They have fun along the way and Rusty learns to accept the funny noise he makes and joins in with his friends; sounds to make great dancing tunes! With wonderful, contemporary illustrations that will appeal to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Words & Pictures 2018
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Summary: "Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JOHTucker, Krista
Summary: Nancy asks her friends and family what makes them feel fancy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DISWesolowska, Monica
Summary: Shortly after his birth, Elbert floats into the air and as he grows, everyone tries to ground him, except for his mother, who encourages Elbert to be himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WESBarnaby, Hannah Rodgers
Summary: Third-grader Max did not want to invite Jeremy or the new student, Sam, to his birthday sleepover, but soon discovers that differences can make a person fun and interesting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: Brigid's fixation with coloring markers gets a bit out of hand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MUNGehl, Laura
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text challenge the idea that boys and girls should each wear only certain colors or play with certain toys, and encourages them to be true to themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little bee Books 2019
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Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PEARussell, Natalie.
Summary: Tapir has a new notebook and pencils but, unlike his friends, can think of nothing to write and is ready to give up when he finds a better way to communicate--through drawing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC RUSMuncaster, Harriet
Summary: Isadora Moon, a vampire fairy, has to decided which school she wants to go to--vampire or fairy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MUNKokias, Kerri
Summary: "In this playful and interactive "quiz," readers are asked a series of seemingly straightforward questions about themselves, only to have the questions turned around into something hilarious and absurd. All sorts of fantastical possibilities are suggested -- could you be a unicorn? A mermaid? A werewolf? -- before settling in on the most fantastic creature of all -- "YOU!""--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021