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Emma every dayTyler, 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 TYLStone, Tamara Ireland
Summary: Hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Samantha has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. When Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret. Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, and she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2015
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOWalker, Alice
Summary: There is a road At the bottom Of my Foot Walking me. In a beautifully poetic and gently provocative text, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker invites readers young and old to see the world -- and our place in it -- through new eyes. Glowing colors and radiant images accompany this joyous celebration of the connections and interconnections between self, Nature, and creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION WalkerSze, 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 SzeReid, C. L.
Summary: Best friends Emma and Izzie take a pottery class together and make a new friend. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE REIAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACEAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019