This collection contains materials from the DIVerse Families bibliography organized by Grades PK-1.
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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Murphy's Three Homes: A Story for Children in Foster Care
Jan Levinson Gilman
A dog describes the emotional ups and downs of being in multiple foster homes and living in unfamiliar surroundings. Includes note to parents.
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Mustafa
Marie-Loise Gay
After leaving his war-torn country with his family, Mustafa visits a park near his new home and finds beautiful flowers, lady bugs, fall leaves, and finally, a friend.
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My Best Buddy
YeShil Kim
Two students attend the same school and become friends. One is eighty-five years old, but he is committed to going to school and learning how to read, write, and study so that he can fulfill his dream of being a veterinarian. Kamau is a second grader, and learns from his older friend that if you put your mind to it, you can make your dreams come true.
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My Buddy
Audrey Osofsky
This easy-to-read, first-person narrative of an unusual friendship demonstrates the desires of the handicapped to be independent and to be treated like everyone else. Graceful watercolor illustrations that emphasize the closeness between boy and dog are a perfect accompaniment to this entertaining and informative book.
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My Chinatown: One Year in Poems
Kam Mak
My Chinatown explores a boy's first year in the United States—after emigrating from China—as he grows to love his new home in Chinatown through food, games, and the people surrounding him.
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My Dad and My Papa
David Escobedo
An adopted daughter muses on her origins and her relationship with her gay dads.
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My Dad Used to Be so Cool
Keith Negly
A young boy tries to imagine his dad as the cool guy who once played in a band, rode a motorcycle, and got tattoos before he became a father.
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My Family is Forever
Nancy Carlson
A young girl recounts how she came to be part of an adoptive family.
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My Friend Isabelle
Eliza Woloson
Isabelle and Charlie are friends. They both like to draw, dance, read, and play at the park. They both like to eat Cheerios. They both cry if their feelings are hurt. And like most friends, they are also different from each other. Isabelle has Down syndrome. Charlie doesn't.
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My Grandmother's Journey
John Cech
A grandmother tells the story of her eventful life in early twentieth-century Europe and her arrival in the United States after World War II.
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My House
Brenna Harding and Vicki Harding
My House is about a 5 year old girl, her pets and her home. She has two dogs, a cat and two mums. It has a happy, hopeful ending and colorful original illustrations by Chris Bray-Cotton. This book is the first in the Learn to Include easy-to-read series. Suitable for 5-7 year olds learning to read, or for reading to under 8's.
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My Mei Mei
Ed Young
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
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My Mother's House, My Father's House
C.B. Christiansen
A child describes having two different houses in which to live, "my mother's house" and "my father's house," and what it is like to travel back and forth between them.
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My Pal, Victor / Mi amigo, Víctor
Diane Gonzales Bertrand
Two boys enjoy the summer doing all of the things that boys do despite one boy's disability. Full story in English and again in Spanish.
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My Shape is Sam
Amanda Jackson
In a place where jobs are based on shape, Sam, who looks like a square but longs to roll like a circle, discovers his true, unique shape.
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My Sister Gracie
Gillian Johnson
Fabio is an only dog who longs for a brother to play with him. His owners agree, but the dog they bring home is not the frisky brother he envisioned. It is fat old Gracie, fresh from the pound. She's tired, she's shy, and worst of all, she's a girl. After boasting about a brother, how will Fabio face his friends?
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My Two Grandads
Floella Benjamin
Aston's granddad Harry plays the trumpet in a brass band, while Grandad Roy plays the steel drum in a steel band. But only one band can play at Aston's summer fair at school...Which band should Aston choose? Or can he find a way to bring everyone together?
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My Two Grannies
Floella Benjamin
When her two grannies want to eat different meals and tell their own stories, how can Alvina make everyone happy?
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My Whirling Twirling Motor
Merriam Sarcia Saunders
Charlie feels like he has a whirling, twirling motor running inside him all the time and sometimes he just can’t settle. When his mom wants to talk to him, he figures he’s in trouble…but she has a surprise for him instead! Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers with more information on ADHD, behavior management, and helping children focus on the positives.
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Newspaper Hats
Phil Cummings
A little girl, Georgie, visits her grandfather in the nursing home where he is suffering from memory loss, and manages to reconnect with him when they make newspaper hats for everyone.
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Nice Wheels
Gwendolyn Hooks
The classmates of a new boy at school find that, although he is in a wheelchair, he can do what they do.
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Nini
Francois Thisdale
Long before Nini was born, she was in a safe place where a familiar voice promised her a loving home. But once she was born, that soft voice was replaced by the words of care givers in an orphanage. Though they were kind, Nini missed the soft voice and the promises it made. Then, one day, a man and a woman on the other side of the world learned that their dreams were about to come true. They would finally have a baby to love. When they all met, Nini once again heard a soft voice, as reassuring and as loving as the first, and trusted that the promises had come true. But her first memory was never lost--it remained an echo for her to share with her parents in her new home.
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Noah Chases the Wind
Michelle Worthington
Noah is different. He sees, hears, feels, and thinks in ways that other people don't always understand, and he asks a lot of questions along the way. Noah loves science, especially the weather. His books usually provide him with the answers he needs, until one day, there's one question they don't answer—and that is where Noah's windy adventure begins.
