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Indirect Diversity
 

This collection contains materials filtered by Indirect Diversity Impact from the DIVerse Families bibliography.

DIVerse Families is a comprehensive bibliography that demonstrates the growing diversity of families in the United States. This type of bibliography provides teachers, librarians, counselors, adoption agencies, children/young adults, and especially parents and grandparents needing to empower their children with materials that reflect their families.

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  • 123 A Family Counting Book by Bobbie Combs

    123 A Family Counting Book

    Bobbie Combs

    Introduces the numbers one through twenty against a background of impressionistic oil paintings portraying gay and lesbian parents and racial diversity.

  • 15 Things NOT to do with a Baby by Margaret McAllister

    15 Things NOT to do with a Baby

    Margaret McAllister

    A girl learns what not to do with her new brother, including sending him to play with an elephant or hanging him from the clothesline, and also what to do.

  • ABC: A Family Alphabet Book by Bobbie Combs

    ABC: A Family Alphabet Book

    Bobbie Combs

    Introduces the alphabet with whimsical illustrations portraying gay and lesbian parents and racial diversity.

  • A Boy's Best Friend by Joan Alden

    A Boy's Best Friend

    Joan Alden

    Seven-year-old Will, an asthma sufferer and a target for bullies, finally gets the birthday wish of his dreams.

  • A Brave Spaceboy: Moving is an Adventure! by Dana Kessimakis Smith

    A Brave Spaceboy: Moving is an Adventure!

    Dana Kessimakis Smith

    On moving day, a little boy bids farewell to his fears by playing pretend: he turns the scary unknown world into an out-of-this-world adventure by handcrafting his own rocket and astronaut outfit for a visit to Mars.

  • Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

    Absolutely Almost

    Lisa Graff

    Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.

  • A Child's Calendar by John Updike

    A Child's Calendar

    John Updike

    A collection of twelve poems describing the activities in a child's life and the changes in the weather as the year moves from January to December.

  • A Home for Leo by Vin Vogel

    A Home for Leo

    Vin Vogel

    Leo grew up in the sea. He has a family of sea lions he loves. He’s happy, but he has always known he was different. Then Leo’s suddenly reunited with his human parents, and he finds he loves them too. But he still feels like a fish out of water. Being from two worlds and having two families isn’t so easy. Leo has a lot to figure out…

  • A Lei for Tutu by Rebecca Nevers Fellows

    A Lei for Tutu

    Rebecca Nevers Fellows

    Nahoa loves making leis with her grandmother and looks forward to helping her create a special one for Lei Day, until her grandmother becomes very ill.

  • Alicia Keys by Russell Roberts

    Alicia Keys

    Russell Roberts

    Biography of the biracial rhythm and blues musician Alicia Keys.

  • A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo

    A Line in the Dark

    Malinda Lo

    When Chinese American teenager Jess Wong's best friend Angie falls in love with a girl from the nearby boarding school, Jess expects heartbreak. But when everybody's secrets start to be revealed, the stakes quickly elevate from love or loneliness to life or death.

  • A Little Friendly Advice by Siobhan Vivian

    A Little Friendly Advice

    Siobhan Vivian

    Ruby is on the verge of turning sixteen. Her friends have been planning her party for weeks. They all have gathered at her house for a pre-party. Her mom has made her favorite dinner - ziti. All is perfect, down to the vintage Polaroid camera her mother has given her. Then it turns horribly wrong. With the ring of the doorbell, her father, who has been gone for years, has come back into her life.

  • All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color / Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: La Historia de por que tenemos diferentes colores de piel by Katie Kissinger

    All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color / Todos Los Colores de Nuestra Piel: La Historia de por que tenemos diferentes colores de piel

    Katie Kissinger

    Explains, in simple terms, the reasons for skin color, how it is determined by heredity, and how various environmental factors affect it.

  • All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon

    All the World

    Liz Garton Scanlon

    Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.

  • Amber Brown Goes Fourth by Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown Goes Fourth

    Paula Danziger

    Entering fourth grade, Amber faces some changes in her life as her best friend moves away and her parents divorce.

  • Amber Brown Horses Around by Paula Danziger, Bruce Coville, and Elizabeth Levy

    Amber Brown Horses Around

    Paula Danziger, Bruce Coville, and Elizabeth Levy

    Amber's excited to be spending the summer after fourth grade with her friends at Camp Cushetunk, but things start getting complicated when she learns that her worst enemy, Hannah Burton, is one of her bunkmates.

  • Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart by Vera B. Williams

    Amber was Brave, Essie was Smart

    Vera B. Williams

    A series of poems tells how two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

  • Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough

    Amelia Westlake

    Erin Gough

    Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she decides to risk it all by helping bad-girl Will Everhart expose the school's many ongoing issues, Harriet tells herself it's because she too is seeking justice. And definitely not because she finds Will oddly fascinating. Will Everhart can't stand posh people like Harriet, but even she has to admit Harriet's ideas are good - and they'll keep Will from being expelled. That's why she teams up with Harriet to create Amelia Westlake, a fake student who can take the credit for a series of provocative pranks at their school. But the further Will and Harriet's hoax goes, the harder it is for the girls to remember they're sworn enemies - and to keep Amelia Westlake's true identity hidden. As tensions burn throughout the school, how far will they go to keep Amelia Westlake - and their feelings for each other - a secret?

  • An African Princess by Lyra Edwards

    An African Princess

    Lyra Edwards

    Lyra and her parents go to the Caribbean to visit Taunte May, who reminds her that her family tree is full of princesses from Africa and around the world.

  • And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin

    And Then There Were Four

    Nancy Werlin

    When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all.

  • An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

    An Enchantment of Ravens

    Margaret Rogerson

    Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel's paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron--Rook, the autumn prince--she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes--a weakness that could cost him his life. Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime.

  • Anna Day and the O-Ring by Elaine Wickens

    Anna Day and the O-Ring

    Elaine Wickens

    Evan and his two mothers try to assemble a tent and find that Anna Day, the dog, has hidden the o-ring.

  • Another Life Altogether by Elaine Beale

    Another Life Altogether

    Elaine Beale

    In 1970s Northern England, thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett struggles to come to terms with her attraction to girls while dealing with her mother's mental illness.

  • Army Brats by Daphne Benedis-Grab

    Army Brats

    Daphne Benedis-Grab

    When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.

  • As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds

    As Brave As You

    Jason Reynolds

    Scooping poop at his grandparent's house - that sure as heck wasn't the way eleven-year-old Genie expected to be spending his summer. But when his parents send him and his big brother, Ernie, to Virginia to experience the great (not!) outdoors, they're in for some big surprises. First, there are chores galore (picking peas, really?). Second, Grandpop just might be completely off his rocker. The man has a big ol' secret - and once Genie learns what it is, all of Grandpop's oddities start to make sense. Like why he locks himself up in a room that's filled with birds. And why he never - not ever, no sir, no how, no way - steps foot outside. On top of that, Grandpop has a crazy idea for how to celebrate Ernie's fourteenth birthday. Actually, to Genie it isn't so crazy, but Ernie thinks it's completely wack. Genie wonders if that's because Ernie isn't brave enough. but is being brave doing something? Or knowing when not to?

 

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