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The fourth book in the Gizmo Girl series encourages creative thinking while tackling the ideas of diversity and inclusivity. Everyone's favorite second grader is back with an all-new invention sure to wow her classmates! Geraldine's latest mission is to unite her class in celebration of their unique differences. When she sees the kids at recess giving the new kid from Pakistan a hard time for being different, she decides it is time for a new invention...
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Stanly Snail is excited to make friends on his first day of preschool. When his classmates try to make fun of Stanly for being different, he shows them how being different can be fun as he shows off his bright yellow shell with a blue swirl in the middle. "We're all just different in our own special way," Stanly tells his classmates. Will Stanly make new friends who love his long trail of goo as much as he does? Find out how he wins over his classmates...
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Chuckle and Buckle are a compassionate duo who navigate through unpleasant situations, while sharing positive lessons with their readers. This first book of the series introduces Buckle and explains how he handles his experience of looking unique.
Chuckle y Buckle son un par de compasionados quienes navegan tras situaciones desagradables mientras comparten lecciones positivas con sus lectores. El primer libro del serie les presenta a Buckle...
44) Differences
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Differences are not accidental. It is all a part of a uniquely designed plan, therefore, you are encouraged to embrace them as such. There are no two people, who are exactly alike. Sometimes an individual is identified by his/her physical traits with regards to his/her inner qualities. This book is a must-read because it confirms that differences are a positive and not a negative!
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Henry Richards lives with his mother in Londonderry, England. It is 1940, and his father is away at war. On December 24th, the day before Christmas, he is walking to town with his mother when a scary situation brings him into contact with a primary school, its teachers, and its students. Henry will turn out to be the older boy in the class for the next eighteen hours. What can a fourteen-year-old boy do to help turn a scary Christmas Eve into a very...
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Zazi's family is going to have a big dinner, but one part is missing-plantains. Zazi and her parents set out in search of plantains in their local market. None of the stalls have what they're looking for, but the owners share traditional foods from their own culture. By the time their search is done, Zazi has plantains and lots of other new and delicious foods to try. This book celebrates diversity through food and friendly interactions in the marketplace....
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You don't have to look very hard to see how different people are, especially those with disabilities or birth defects. It's much harder however to see how we are the same. This is a book on how to look past the outside appearance to find the person's true beauty within.
Different but Not is the story of a village full of people who are beautiful on the outside, but sadly their insides were ugly. They needed to learn that true beauty comes from within....
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¿De qué hablamos cuando hablamos del amor y del sexo? ¿De ciencia? Nada en la vida es más importante, más divertido, más interesante o más problemático que el sexo. Claro que para los diferentes bichos que hay sobre la Tierra, decir sexo quiere decir aventuras muy pero muy diferentes. Además, para muchos de estos comportamientos sexys hay que hacerse notar...
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Mary now has many friends and enjoys playing and learning with them. Her class has students from all over the world. To represent and showcase this diversity, a multicultural event was hosted by the third-grade teachers and the students were asked to bring food from their home countries. All students enjoyed tasting a variety of cuisines and many children and parents also wore their traditional clothes. The event provided an opportunity for students...
51) Brown All Over
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Brown All Over is a celebration of colors, including the colors of our skin. It features a young boy's attempt to use all of the colors in his crayon box with the help of his family members and his realization that he is part of the color spectrum, too. It is a great book for children and families.
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It is time for another special day with Nonna, and Jellybean wants to give Nonna a special gift. In her excitement, Jellybean disobeys Mamas instructions and creates a huge mess. In this heartwarming story, Jellybean learns the valuable lesson of being patient and following directions
54) First Snow
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Rebecca and her brother, Marcos, have just arrived in New York City from the United States' Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico. Not only are these two now English-language learners, but they are also novices to snow. What does a child experience when they first encounter snow?
In this story, First Snow, Rebecca is in awe of what she sees out her window. When she and her brother are able to experience those first drops of snow on their faces, they...
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When sports-loving Charlie is partnered with the weird new school in an after-school writing program, he complains that he no longer wants to be in the class. He blames everything except Jack, the new kid. He claims that his mother just wants to keep him busy every afternoon until she returns from her own teaching job and that she thinks he's a baby. His older sister Annie, who thinks she knows everything now that she's in that fancy prep school across...
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Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources. Agricultural lands in rural areas are being purchased for development. Water scarcities are pitting urban and development expansion against agriculture and conservation needs. The farming population is ageing and retiring,...
57) Little Bigfoot
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Eine ungewöhnliche Familie lebt von den Menschen versteckt. Ihr Lebensraum wird ihnen geraubt durch die Abholzung ihres Waldes. Sie flüchten nach South Dakota in das Indianergebiet. Hier werden sie akzeptiert, so wie sie sind in ihrer Andersartigkeit - als Bigfootfamilie -. Der kleine Bigfoot Tommy verletzt sich und wird von Menschen gefunden. Es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise, um den kleinen Kerl wiederzufinden. Das Indianermädchen Taipa findet...
58) My Magic Jacket
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My Magic Jacket is a children's book that tells children we all have a jacket, that is magic. The color may be different, but your jacket does the same thing that my jacket does. Not only is there a message for the child that say, "I'm just right;" the book talks about colors, numbers, day, night, and many other words that can help add to their vocabulary. This book will be a great addition to your child's library.
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Crazy Little Shadow has an important subliminal message that encourages cross-racial friendships among children.
During Colette's four-year-old birthday party, her two-year-old baby sister notices a shadow for the first time and tries to catch it. This funny happening, leads to a series of shadowy activities that Colette and her friends, who are of a different race, experience together.
God's children are all colors, how wonderful; how fun! But,...
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Everyone gets a bit curious from time to time, and we all have questions. Sometimes the youngest minds come up with the most difficult questions that there are seemingly no worldly answers for.
The God Story came to light from one of these difficult questions: "Mommy, why is my friend a different color than me?"
How do you answer that?
Well, genetics, DNA, birds/bees? No! We turn to the Bible and ask another question: "Lord, help me, please?"
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