Elisa Amado
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"The powerful story of a child refugee seeking asylum in America. Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is a gentle boy who lives with his family in a tiny village in the Guatemalan countryside. But life is far from idyllic: PACs--armed civil patrol--are a constant presence in the streets, and terrifying memories of the country's war linger in the villagers' collective conscience. Things deteriorate further when government-backed drug gangs arrive and take...
4) My friend
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"Friendship -- to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinner with her family -- a family that feels free to eat weird food and, even worse,...
7) Primas
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La niña en este cuento se encuentra entre dos mundos. Por un lado vive con su padre latinoamericano y su abuela norteamericana con suficiente dinero y muchas cosas. Del otro lado está la casa de su abuela paterna donde vive su prima y varias otras personas, gente con pocas posesiones pero muchas amistades.
10) Walk with me
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A little girl imagines a lion taking the place of her father who no longer lives with her family, an animal that keeps her safe on her travels from school to home.
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Braille Books & Resources for Those with Visual Impairments
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
OBD Reading Colors Your World Nonfiction - YOUTH
Understanding Blindness & Low Vision - Picture Books
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This title invites readers to imagine living without sight through remarkable illustrations done with raised lines and descriptions of colors based on imagery. Braille letters accompany the illustrations and a full Braille alphabet offers sighted readers help reading along with their fingers.
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"A quirky and uplifting guide to making new friends for kids 4 to 7 from a beloved, internationally renowned author. What's the best way to make friends? Toad has the most magnificent ideas! Sometimes they don't go according to plan ... but that's okay. Eventually Toad tires of making new friends, but comes to a marvelous conclusion: sometimes being with yourself is a good way to pass the time too. A hilarious and heartfelt read for kids who are starting...
13) Drawing outdoors
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""Our school has almost nothing. A blackboard, some chairs, a teacher." The teacher is there at the door waiting for them every day. And this day they are taking whatever art supplies they can come up with and going outdoors to draw. And out there, amongst the trees, the mountains the huge boulders, the river are--dinosaurs--of every kind. And a squirrel. From children's book stars Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng comes this wonderful story of a...
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In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the US border.They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn't know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to...
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"When the new baby arrives, both the baby and the parents are in for a steep learning curve. In this book, born out of personal experience, internationally renowned author/illustrator Isol brings us a dual narrative and guide. For babies, there's a rich range of images of babies and all their functions to look at. From crying, to nursing, to peeing and pooing, to looking, to hearing, to deciding that this weird new world they've entered is worth staying...
16) Tricycle
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Margarita lives in a great big house surrounded by a hedge. When she climbs her favorite tree, she can see the small house next door where her friend Rosario and her family live. One day after Margarita carelessly leaves her tricycle by the hedge, she sees Rosario and her brother dragging her tricycle into their yard and hiding it.
18) Cousins
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A little girl lives in two vastly different households, the house of her maternal grandmother is expensive and quiet, but her paternal grandmother's house where her cousin lives is brimming with people. She finds it difficult to deal with her conflicting feelings about which household she likes more when her cousin prepares for her first communion.
19) No
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It's winter and little bear doesn't want to go to sleep. He'd rather play, and he's sure he won't get cold outside, no matter how long the winter is, how deep the snow might get, or how hard the storm might blow. Until, that is, little bear finds himself all alone in a snowstorm.