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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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  • Derek Jeter: All-Star Major League Baseball Player by Chuck Bednar

    Derek Jeter: All-Star Major League Baseball Player

    Chuck Bednar

    A look at the life and career of the famous baseball player.

  • Die for Me by Amy Plum

    Die for Me

    Amy Plum

    After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.

  • Digging Up Trouble (Amy Hodgepodge, #6) by Kim Wayans and Kevin Knotts

    Digging Up Trouble (Amy Hodgepodge, #6)

    Kim Wayans and Kevin Knotts

    When Amy's fourth-grade class must come up with a "green" project, they learn about community activism and fund-raising from Amy's visiting Grandmother Hodges as they raise money to help revitalize a community garden.

  • Donovan's Big Day by Lesléa Newman

    Donovan's Big Day

    Lesléa Newman

    From the moment Donovan wakes in the morning, he painstakingly prepares for his special role in the wedding ceremony of his two mothers.

  • Do-Over by Rachel Vail

    Do-Over

    Rachel Vail

    Thirteen-year-old Whitman has to deal with the anger he feels towards his father when his parents separate, his own interest in several girls, and the heady feeling of acting in his first play.

  • Double Dog Dare by Lisa Graff

    Double Dog Dare

    Lisa Graff

    When Kansas Bloom moves to California and joins the Media Club at school, he soon finds himself trying to outdo one of the other fourth-grade students in a "dare war" while vying for the job of on-air video homeroom announcer.

  • Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke .

    Double Trouble for Anna Hibiscus

    Atinuke .

    From the stellar team of Atinuke and Lauren Tobia comes the third Anna Hibiscus picture book title brimming with all the best-loved Hibiscus family members - and Anna's two brand new baby brothers! Everything is changing for Anna Hibiscus, she's a sister! But - oh dear - everyone is now so busy! Uncle Bizi-Sunday is shopping for the babies, Aunty Joli and Aunty Grace are rocking the babies and Mama and Grandma are fast asleep...but just who has time for Anna Hibiscus? I hate Double Trouble! shouts Anna. But Anna Hibiscus is amazing so it won't be long before everyone finds time for her again! A story which perfectly captures the anxiety and thrill of having a new sibling, this is a great title for any family with a new baby, or a baby on the way!

  • Dozens of Cousins by Shutta Crum

    Dozens of Cousins

    Shutta Crum

    At a family reunion, dozens of 'beastie' cousins spend the day running wild, playing in the creek, filling up on food, and making mischief.

  • Drama by Raina Telgemeier

    Drama

    Raina Telgemeier

    Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together?

  • Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

    Dread Nation

    Justina Ireland

    When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.

  • Drowned by Cyn Balog and Nichola Reilly

    Drowned

    Cyn Balog and Nichola Reilly

    Coe is one of the few remaining teenagers on the island of Tides. Deformed and weak, she is constantly reminded that in a world where dry land dwindles at every high tide, she is not welcome. The only bright spot in her harsh and difficult life is the strong, capable Tiam-- but love has long ago been forgotten by her society. The only priority is survival. Until the day their King falls ill, leaving no male heir to take his place. Unrest grows, and for reasons Coe cannot comprehend, she is invited into the privileged circle of royal aides. She soon learns that the dying royal is keeping a secret that will change their world forever. Is there an escape from the horrific nightmare that their island home has become? Coe must race to find the answers and save the people she cares about, before their world and everything they know is lost to the waters.

  • Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan

    Dumpling Soup

    Jama Kim Rattigan

    A young Asian American girl living in Hawaii tries to make dumplings for her family's New Year's celebration.

  • Eleanor & Park by Rainbown Rowell

    Eleanor & Park

    Rainbown Rowell

    Two misfits. One extraordinary love. Eleanor -- Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough -- Eleanor. Park -- He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises -- Park. Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds -- smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

  • Ellabug by Gregory Turner-Rahman

    Ellabug

    Gregory Turner-Rahman

    Ellabug is a simple story about non-traditional families that follows Ella, a small but strong-willed ladybug, as she begins to question her identity.

  • Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story by Kaitlyn Considine

    Emma and Meesha My Boy: A Two Mom Story

    Kaitlyn Considine

    Emma lives with her two moms and a chubby housecat. Follow along as Emma gets in trouble while trying to play with Meesha Kitty; and cheer as she learns to treat him with care.

  • Epossumondas Plays Possum by Coleen Salley

    Epossumondas Plays Possum

    Coleen Salley

    Forgetting his mother's warnings, Epossumondas goes into the swamp alone then must pretend to be dead time and again as he hears frightening sounds and fears they are being made by the dreaded loup garou.

  • Escaping Perfect (Escaping Perfect, #1) by Emma Harrison

    Escaping Perfect (Escaping Perfect, #1)

    Emma Harrison

    To escape her extremely sheltered life, eighteen-year-old Cecilia grabs a chance to strike out on her own in Sweetbriar, Tennessee, where she is transformed by her first job, apartment, and love but always waits for her mother, a U.S. Senator, to find her.

  • Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming by Lucille Clifton

    Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming

    Lucille Clifton

    Relates, in verse, the excitement and joy of a young boy anticipating as well as celebrating Christmas in the city.

  • Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

    Everything Under

    Daisy Johnson

    The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found community and shelter with them, and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal: the bonak. Everything and nothing at once, the bonak was Gretel’s name for the thing she feared most. And now that she’s searching for her mother, she’ll have to face it.

  • Every Turtle Counts by Sara Hoagland Hunter

    Every Turtle Counts

    Sara Hoagland Hunter

    When seven-year-old Mimi finds a frozen sea turtle on the beach, she refuses to believe that it will die.

  • Family by Isabell Monk

    Family

    Isabell Monk

    Hope's new and unusual dessert blends well with the traditional dishes prepared by her cousins and Aunt Poogee at their annual summer get-together.

  • Far from You by Tess Sharpe

    Far from You

    Tess Sharpe

    Sophie Winters nearly died. Twice. The first time, she's fourteen, and escapes a near-fatal car accident with scars, a bum leg, and an addiction to Oxy that'll take years to kick. The second time, she's seventeen, and it's no accident. Sophie and her best friend Mina are confronted by a masked man in the woods. Sophie survives, but Mina is not so lucky. When the cops deem Mina's murder a drug deal gone wrong, casting partial blame on Sophie, no one will believe the truth: Sophie has been clean for months, and it was Mina who led her into the woods that night for a meeting shrouded in mystery. After a forced stint in rehab, Sophie returns home to a chilly new reality. Mina's brother won't speak to her, her parents fear she'll relapse, old friends have become enemies, and Sophie has to learn how to live without her other half. To make matters worse, no one is looking in the right places and Sophie must search for Mina's murderer on her own. But with every step, Sophie comes closer to revealing all: about herself, about Mina, and about the secret they shared.

  • Find Me by Romily Bernard

    Find Me

    Romily Bernard

    When teen hacker and foster child Wick Tate finds a dead classmate's diary on her front step, with a note reading "Find me," she sets off on a perverse game of hide-and-seek to catch the killer.

  • First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins

    First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

    Mitali Perkins

    During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.

  • Five, Six, Seven, Nate! by Tim Federle

    Five, Six, Seven, Nate!

    Tim Federle

    Now on Broadway as second understudy for E.T., Nate Foster keeps in close contact with his best friend, Libby, as he faces his nemesis, and his own insecurities as the cast member with the least training and experience.

 

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