Elisa Amado
2) Mi amiga
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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, burst...
5) 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,...
8) 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.
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"El conmovedor relato de un joven refugiado que busca asilo en Norteamérica. Manuelito, un niño de trece años, vive con su familia en un pueblito en Guatemala. Pero la vida es todo menos idílica: las PAC -- o Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil -- son una amenaza constante en las calles, y recuerdos aterradores de la guerra en el país siguen marcando la memoria colectiva de los campesinos. La situación se deteriora aún más cuando pandillas que...
11) Lion and mouse
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A modern update on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse shares the relationship between two unlikely friends.
12) 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...
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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...
16) 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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"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...
19) 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.