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• Our Story Starts in Africa

  Lawrence, Patrice,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in Africa. When Paloma goes to visit her family in Trinidad, she doesn't feel that she fits in. But Tante Janet has a story to tell her: An ancient story of warrior queens and talking drums, of treasures…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Moon From Dehradun

  a Story of Partition

  Shamsi, Shirin,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in British India. A young girl leaves her beloved doll behind when she must make the journey from India to Pakistan in the aftermath of their partition by the British government.

• Festival of Colors

  Sehgal, Kabir,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in India. Siblings Chintoo and Mintoo collect flowers and press the petals into a fine powder as they prepare for Holi, the Indian springtime Festival of Colors.

• Baby Goes to Market

  Atinuke,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in Nigeria. When baby goes to market with Mama, Mama doesn't realize that he is collecting treats as they go along until it is time to go home.

• Lost and Found Cat

  the True Story of Kunkush's Incredible Journey

  Kuntz, Doug,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in Iraq, Greece, and Norway. Describes how an Iraqi refugee family was separated from their beloved feline companion while on a crowded boat crossing to Greece before a worldwide community helped the cat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rainbow Weaver

  Marshall, Linda Elovitz,

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  For Pre-Readers and Readers. Set in Guatemala. Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings.

• Sugar in Milk

  Umrigar, Thrity N.,

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  For Readers. A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juana & Lucas

  Medina, Juana, 1980-

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  For Readers. Set in Colombia. A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finally Heard

  Yang, Kelly,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Ten-year-old Lina wants to create a viral video to help her mom's business, but as she navigates the world of likes and views with her two best friends, Lina must find the courage to stay true to her authentic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anna Hibiscus

  Atinuke,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in Africa. Anna, who lives with her parents, twin brothers, and large extended family in Africa, is overjoyed when she learns she gets to go on a beach vacation with her parents, but once away from her aunts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tamarind and the Star of Ishta

  Bilan, Jasbinder,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in India. Tamarind has never met her Indian mother, Chinty, who died shortly after she was born. But when her father remarries, Tamarind is sent to India to stay with the family she has never met, in their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Junie Kim

  Oh, Ellen,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in Korea. A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes

  DiCicco, Sue,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in Japan. A brief biography of atomic bomb survivor Sadako Sasaki, who attempted to fold 1000 paper cranes in the hope that her wish to be made well again would be granted.

• Pax

  Pennypacker, Sara, 1951-

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. When he's forced to give up his pet fox Pax and live with his grandfather, Peter decides to run away and find his friend.

• The Bridge Home

  Venkatraman, Padma,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in India. Life is harsh in Chennai's teeming streets, so when runaway sisters Viji and Rukku arrive, their prospects look grim. Very quickly, eleven-year-old Viji discovers how vulnerable they are in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starry River of the Sky

  Lin, Grace,

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  For Readers and Pre-Teens. Set in China. Discovering that the moon has disappeared from the sky above a Chinese village where he works, runaway Rendi wonders about strange local behaviors until a mysterious storyteller arrives at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lunar New Year Love Story

  Yang, Gene Luen,

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  For Teens. Set in China. Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love.

• Magic Has No Borders

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  For Teens. Set in Asia. From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Time It's Real

  Liang, Ann (Young adult author),

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  For Teens. Set in China. When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her international school in Beijing, she has to make a deal with the handsome and charming Caz Song to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foul Lady Fortune

  Gong, Chloe,

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  For Teens. Set in Asia. In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.