Jacqueline Alcántara
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's a little girl's first trip to her papa's homeland and she's wowed by the experience, including her enormous family, but she only knows a little Spanish and luckily relatives help her see there are other ways to connect.
3) Freedom Soup
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the new year comes, Ti Gran teaches Belle how to make Freedom Soup, while sharing the history of the soup, her family, and Haiti.
4) Jam, too?
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A jam session forms, instrument by instrument, and welcomes a child who loves dancing along"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Your mama
Author
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text twist classic "your mama" jokes into a celebration of the beauty, power, and love of motherhood.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again offers a picture book rendering of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood to illuminate the rich natural-world and cultural experiences that shaped her education and career as a storyteller.