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  Grandmother's Visit

  Betty Quan

  Grandmother lives with Grace's family. She tells her stories about growing up in China and together they savor the flavors of her childhood. Grandmother says goodbye when she drops Grace off at school every morning and hello when she picks her up at the end of the day. Then, Grandmother stops walking Grace to and from school, and the door to her room stays closed. One day, Grandmother's room is empty. And one day, Grandmother is buried. After the funeral, Grace's mom turns on all the outside lights so that Grandmother's spirit can find its way home for one final goodbye.

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  Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?

  Sandy Lynne Holman

  An illustrated story of an African American boy who comes to appreciate his dark skin by learning about his African heritage from his grandfather.

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  Grandparents Song

  Sheila Hamanaka

  A rhyming celebration of ancestry and of the diversity that flourishes in this country.

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  Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood

  Melissa Hart

  Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand theres life with her mother, who leaves her father to begin a lesbian relationship, taking Hart and her two siblings along. Hart tells of her moms new life in a Hispanic neighborhood of Oxnard, California, and how these new surroundings begin to positively shape Hart herself. At the opposite extreme is her fathers white-bread well-to-do security, which is predictable and stable and boring. Hart is made all the more fraught with frustration when a judge rules that being raised by two women is 'unnatural' and grants her father primary custody.

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  Half and Half

  Lensey Namioka

  At Seattle's annual Folk Fest, twelve-year-old Fiona and her older brother are torn between trying to please their Chinese grandmother and making their Scottish grandparents happy.

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  Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

  Claudine C. O'Hearn

  Eighteen biracial and bicultural writers address the difficulties and benefits of growing up different in the United States. As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like 'What are you?' and 'Where are you from?' aren't answered -- they are discussed. These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality, address the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits of being part of two worlds. Through the lens of personal experience, they offer a broader spectrum of meaning for race and culture. And in the process, they map a new ethnic terrain that transcends racial and cultural division.

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  Happy Birthday to Me (Amy Hodgepodge, #2)

  Kim Wayans and Kevin Knotts

  Amy is very excited about the special sleepover she has planned for her tenth birthday until her friends get the chance to go to a concert the same night, and meanwhile, she worries that her family will be moving again.

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  Happy in Our Skin

  Fran Manushkin and Lauren Tobia

  Bouquets of babies sweet to hold: cocoa-brown, cinnamon, and honey gold. Ginger-coloured babies, peaches and cream, too--splendid skin for me, splendid skin for you! A delightfully rhythmical read-aloud text is paired with bright, bustling art from the award-winning Lauren Tobia, illustrator of Anna Hibiscus, in this joyful exploration of the new skin of babyhood.

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  Here to Stay

  Sara Farizan

  When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.

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  Hidden Roots

  Joseph Bruchac

  Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from his classmates in their small New York town.

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  Hiroshima Dreams

  Kelly Easton-Ruben

  Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close relationship with her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of precognition.

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  Hooper

  Geoff Herbach

  For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam’s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he’s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future. But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police threatens to break apart the bonds Adam’s finally formed after a lifetime of struggle, he must make an impossible choice between his new family and the sport that’s given him everything.

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  Hope

  Isabell Monk

  During a visit with her great-aunt, a young girl learns the story behind her name and learns to feel proud of her biracial heritage.

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  Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet

  Sheri L. Smith

  Disaster strikes when Ana Shen is about to deliver the salutatorian speech at her junior high school graduation, but an even greater crisis looms when her best friend invites a crowd to Ana's house for dinner, and Ana's multicultural grandparents must find a way to share a kitchen.

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  How are We the Same and Different?

  Bobbie Kalman

  We are the same because we are all human beings. We are also the same because we are all different. We have thoughts, ideas, beliefs, talents, and dreams, but how we think and act makes us who we are. This book encourages children to honor their own uniqueness and that of others through new ideas and positive actions.

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  How My Parents Learned to Eat

  Ina R. Friedman

  An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

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  I Am a Ballerina

  Valerie Coulman

  The endearing story of young Molly's dream to fly through the air like a real dancer, from her first shaky lessons to her dazzling Christmas recital.

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  I am Flippish!

  Leslie V. Ryan

  Sean's mom usually helps out at school, but not today. Today it's dad's turn! But when his classmates start asking some awkward questions, Sean wonders why he's so different. Together, and with the help of their teacher, the students learn a few things about diversity and Sean teaches his friends just how wonderful it is to be different.

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  I Am Nuchu

  Brenda Stanley

  Upon his parents' 1981 divorce, Cal Burton goes from being a popular, comfortable Spokane basketball all-star to a resident of a Ute Indian reservation in Utah, where apathy, poor living conditions, racism, and bitterness over a decades-old family tragedy change his life.

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  I Love Saturdays y domingos

  Alma Flor Ada

  A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

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  I'm New Here

  Anne Sibley O'Brien

  Three students are immigrants from Guatemala, Korea, and Somalia and have trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English in their new American elementary school. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn to feel confident and comfortable in their new school without losing a sense of their home country, language, and identity.

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  In English, of Course

  Josephine Nobisso

  Set in the Bronx during the 1950s, when postwar immigrant children were placed in their first American classrooms, this delightful story tells of the riotous linguistic misunderstandings of Josephine’s first day of school. The daughter of savvy Italian engineers, Josephine has lived in the city long enough to have learned a few words in English, but is overcome when her teacher makes her stand up in front of the class and tell about her life in Italy—in English, of course. The result is a charming tale of adventures and multicultural miscommunications as Josephine attempts to make herself understood. Children will come to understand that sometimes people underestimate the talents and dignity of newcomers to the United States and will embark on a poignant journey as Josephine tells her incredible story the best way she knows how and attempts to understand her English-speaking teacher and classmates. Josephine Nobisso is the author of 17 books including Grandpa Loved, Grandma’s Scrapbook, and Shh! The Whale is Smiling. She lives in Quogue, New York. Dasha Ziborova is the illustrator of Crispin the Terrible. She lives in New York City.

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  International Adoptions

  Margaret Haerens

  This volume explores the topics relating to the adoption of international children by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.

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  Islandborn

  Junot Díaz

  Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland ... and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage

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  Jalapeño Bagels

  Natasha Wing

  For International Day at school, Pablo wants to bring something that reflects the cultures of both his parents.