Lui, Mavis
Summary: "Meet Frank is a picture book about our unique and beautiful qualities. Frank is a curious little alien who comes from a planet where everyone looks the same: same box shape, same green color. Convinced there must be something more, Frank explores the universe and lands on Earth, where he befriends three little Earthlings who all look very different. By celebrating their unique qualities, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2022
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Summary: A little girl struggling to find her place within her family is shown how special she is through a set of nesting dolls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Doyon, Samara Cole
Summary: Joyful young narrators celebrate feeling at home in one's own skin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tilbury House Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DOYSze, Gillian
Summary: "When you ask me why your skin is brown, I will tell you that you are my favorite color. I will say that your skin was decided long, long ago. Time was just waiting for you. So begins a mother's celebration of her children's brown skin, told through warm and vivid poetry."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SZECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social SzeWoodard, Bellen
Summary: "The very first Crayon Activist presents this picture book in which she spreads a message of inclusivity, empowerment and the importance of inspiring the next generation of leaders through The Peach Project and crayons"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WOOFreeman-Haskin, Leah
Summary: "Sienna looks forward to drawing a picture for her school's spring art show, until she ends up with the last two crayons ... By the time Sienna arrives at the art table in her classroom, all the crayons are gone except dark brown and light brown. Now how can she make a special picture for the art show? Andy teases that all she'll be able to draw is mud and dog poop. Her teacher tries to cheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREWalter, Laura Maylene
Summary: "From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markings on women's bodies reveal the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWest, Joma
Summary: "In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face-rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society. But in SchAddie's household, cracks are beginning to appear....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESBanker, Ashok
Summary: "I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. A joyful celebration of the skin you're in--of being brown, of being amazing, of being you" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing Ltd., UK 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BANManushkin, Fran
Summary: Depicts families of different colors and orientations as they play at a park, swim, and celebrate at a block party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANHamid, Mohsin
Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAMCopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMWilliams, Alicia
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILForman, Ruth
Summary: "This simple, playful and elegant board book stars a young boy who joyfully celebrates his dark skin with a bright moon at the end of a perfect day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD FORJames, Nancy Johnson
Summary: In this loving ode to the color brown, a boy describes the many beautiful hues of his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAMAdoff, Arnold.
Summary: Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADOTyler, Michael.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate being content with the skin in which one lives, whatever that skin might be. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers. Themes associated with child development and social harmony, such as friendship, acceptance, self-esteem, and diversity are promoted in simple...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Children's Museum 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TYLAcevedo, Desirée
Summary: "Vega and her friend Alex wonder why the pencil in the box is called 'skin color' when it doesn't match either of them. This question leads them on a beautiful journey of exploring the diverse array of skin colors they see in the world. Together, they discover how to bring all of them into their art."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cuento de Luz SL 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACEhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Jump at the Sun 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOOhooks, bell
Summary: The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. Celebrating all that makes us unique and different, [this book] offers new ways to talk about race and identity. Race matters, but only so much-- what's most important is who we are on the inside. Looking beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LB Kids, imprint of Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD HOOCole, Heidi
Summary: A young boy whose father is called Black and whose mother is called White wonders if he is a color, too, even as he observes that people around him dream, feel, sing, smile, and dance in every color.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Illumination Arts 2005