This collection contains materials from the DIVerse Families bibliography organized by Grades K-3.
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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Dreamers
Yuyi Morales
An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story.
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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.
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Elliot
Julie Pearson
When Elliot's parents do not know how to take care of him, a social worker takes him to live with a foster family, which begins a series of changes that leave Elliot worried and anxious, until he finds a forever home and a forever family.
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Emily's Blue Period
Cathleen Daly
After her parents get divorced, Emily finds comfort in making and learning about art.
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Emmanuel's Dream
Laurie Ann Thompson
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story—which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey—is nothing short of remarkable. Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people—but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today, Emmanuel continues to work on behalf of the disabled. Thompson's lyrical prose and Qualls's bold collage illustrations offer a powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity.
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Emma's Story
Deborah Hodge
When Emma sets out to make a cookie family with Grandma and Sam, the happy afternoon suddenly turns sad. The cookies are meant to look like her family, but Emma's is the only one with dark hair and eyes. She doesn't look like the others; does that mean she doesn't belong? In this tender story, Emma learns that there are many ways to come together and form a family.
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Emma's Yucky Brother
Jean Little
Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.
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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.
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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.
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Everett Anderson's Friend
Lucille Clifton
Having eagerly anticipated the new neighbors, a boy is disappointed to get a whole family of girls.
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Everett Anderson's Goodbye
Lucille Clifton
Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies.
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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.
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Fabulous! A Portrait of Andy Warhol
Bonnie Christensen
You might recognize him from his famous paintings of Campbell's soup cans and coke bottles. But do you know about the artist who created these images? Any Warhol was often sick as a child but found comfort in reading comic books and most especially in drawing. From his early days in Pittsburgh in the 1930s to the height of his glory in the 1960s when he blurred the line between commercial art and fine art, this book chronicles an artist's remarkable path to becoming a renowned Pop Art icon.
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Families
Ann Morris
A simple explanation of families, how they function, how they are different, and how they are alike.
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Families: A Coloring Book
Michael Willhoite
A coloring book depicting traditional and nontraditional families.
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Families are Different
Nina Pellegrini
An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families
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Families Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights
Julie Nelson
Written to help children understand why some kids get new foster parents or new adopted moms and dads, with resources for adults.
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Father's Day Blues
Irene Smalls-Hector
Cheryl Blues has to write an essay about Father's Day, but since she doesn't live with her father, she consults her grandmother, her aunt, and her mother about fathers.
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Finding Joy
Marion Coste
Shu-li, an infant girl who had to be sent away by her family in China, is adopted by an American family and renamed Joy.
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Fly Away Home
Eve Bunting
A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds its freedom.
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Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children
Sherrie Eldridge
Lucie's aunt and uncle are having a baby, which makes Lucie wonder about her birth mother and what it was like before she was born.
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Forever Rhen
Sandra Athans
Rhen's parents are getting a divorce, and Rhen worries about the change. Find out what changes and what stays the same.
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For My Family, Love, Allie
Ellen B. Senisi
Allie, whose father is black and mother is white, decides to make special food as a present for her relatives when they come for a big family party.
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Foster Baby
Rhian Brynjolson
A short, easy to read story for beginner readers and children, with a detailed text to help parents answer questions about foster families.
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Foster Families
Sarah L. Schuette and Gail Saunders-Smith PhD
Simple text and photographs present foster families, including how family members interact with one another.