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1) Wonder
Author
Language
English
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Books for Disability Pride Month: Grades PreK-12
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Teen Feel-Good Reads
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Teen Feel-Good Reads
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.
2) My heart
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days your heart is a puddle or a fence to keep the world out. But some days it is wide open to the love that surrounds you. With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide within in this ode to love and self-acceptance.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tameika is a girl who belongs on the stage. She loves to act, sing, and dance?and she?s pretty good at it, too. So when her school announces their Snow White musical, Tameika auditions for the lead princess role. But the other kids think she?s "not quite" right to play the role. They whisper, they snicker, and they glare. Will Tameika let their harsh words be her final curtain call?
4) I am small
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In her authorial debut, award-winning illustrator Qin Leng has crafted a delightful picture book with a fresh twist on the themes of self-acceptance, growing up, and the arrival of a new sibling. Youngest siblings and small children everywhere will find a kindred spirit in Mimi and will appreciate her change in perspective when --- for the first time --- she sees herself through the eyes of someone smaller than her. Qin Leng's simple but poignant...
6) The turning
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aran has never truly fit in with his selkie clan. He was born in his human form, without a pelt to transform him into a sleek, strong seal. Each day he waits, left behind while his selkie family explores the deep ocean. What if his pelt never comes?"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
After a bewildering encounter at her small town's annual summer festival, seventeen-year-old biracial, queer Nima plunges into the world of drag, where she has the chance to explore questions of identity, acceptance, self-expression, and love.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Children will learn to love all about their differences and be comfortable with who they are in this photographic Step 1 Step into Reading leveled reader starring Barbie! Short or tall, blue or brown eyes Barbie and her friends all love themselves (and each other) for who they are! Children ages 4 to 6 will love to read how Barbie and her friends celebrate their differences in this brand-new photographic Step 1 Step into Reading leveled reader.
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
All of the savannah animals are excited to audition for the school Christmas play, except Raffi the giraffe, who feels discouraged about being extremely tall, until he realizes that that he is just the right size to play the most important part.
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