Whitehill, Miry
Summary: Demonstrates the importance of welcoming people from all over the world into the community with love, compassion, and acceptance.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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Summary: "After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city. One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that her treasured ivory...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TANSummary: It is 1935. Three years have passed, and as the seasons turn, so too do the machinations of a rising revolution. As a new summer falls upon the foothills of India's Little England, Simla, political tensions reach fever point. With help from the scheming Cynthia, Ralph faces the most pivotal year of his career. Alice's husband has followed her to India, and Aafrin's ascending career may be in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INDHeuer, Lourdes
Summary: "On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HEUBerenstain, Mike
Summary: A faith-based story about the joy of loving family, friends, and neighbors gently introduces young readers to the topic of diversity and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Face masks on or off? This book flips to be read either way. It's a topsy-turvy world children live in, but adventures must safely return. This book has the ups and downs of a balance bike, a stuffed bunny is temporarily lost, and a community found.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: House of Tomorrow 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHESummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARHong, 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 HONSheth, Sheetal
Summary: "Anjali and her friends are excited to get matching personalized license plates for their bikes. But Anjali can't find her name. To make matters worse, she gets bullied for her "different" name, and is so upset she demands to change it"--Back cover
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bharat Babies 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SHEPenfold, Alexandra
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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Summary: In simple, rhyming text, an adult expresses their love, hopes, and dreams for a child.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: "Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding, the young girl is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Innovation Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Thompkins-Bigelow 2020Beaty, Andrea
Summary: "Love comes in many forms. It can feel tart as lemonade, or sweet as sugar cookies. Slow as a lazy morning, or fast as a relay race. Love is there through it all: the large and small moments, the good times and bad. And at the end of the day, love settles us down to bed with a hug and kiss goodnight. With charming, rhyming text...heartwarming illustrations...I Love You Like Yellow celebrates...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: With an important and timely message about the power of community and getting along, this sparkly board book truly shows the importance of being #strongertogether. A stunning celebration of the power and strength in working and being together!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Ltd. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shot over a ten-year period, this documentary follows the changing times in New York's East Village as seen through the eyes of Josh Pais who grew up on 7th Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paradise Acres Productions 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVFox, Mem
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal how all of our lives are enriched by the vibrant cultural diversity immigrants bring to their new communities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Fox 2018Penfold, Alexandra
Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PENCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo Penfold 2018Brooke, Susan Rich
Summary: When Little Dumpling accidentally rolls away from her family's tent at a Dumpling Fest, she is surprised to discover that there are lots of different ways to be a dumpling! As she tries to find her way back to her home, she meets and makes friends with dumplings from all over the world, taking delight in their similarities and differences, and developing a new taste...for adventure! Young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sunbird Books 0000
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Summary: "Oh-oh! A skunk! What's a pair of campers to do?...Tension builds as the campers creep closer and tempt fate, dismissing the skunk's warnings. But skunks can be fakers. Does this one have the stink to stank the campers? Title includes back matter about skunk biology and behavior." --book jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Summary: Have you ever wondered what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? After Steve and Zombie accidentally launch a prototype display rocket and get sucked through a wormhole (it's a long story), they are relieved to land safely back in the Overworld. However, nothing is as it seems. Zombie's dad is organised, his mum is scatty, he is allowed to stay up all day and the Humans are scaring the mobs!...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Koala Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ZOMSummary: Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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Summary: With Finch's help, Alice escaped the Hinterland and her reclusive grandmother's dark legacy. Now she and the rest of the dregs of the fairy tale world have washed up in New York City, where Alice is trying to make a new, unmagical life. But something is stalking the Hinterland's survivors--and she suspects their deaths may have a darker purpose. Meanwhile, in the winking out world of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2020