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10 best books like Colibri (Ann Cameron): Samir and Yonatan, Between Before and After, The Composition, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual, The Locked Garden, Under the Quilt of Night, Eyes of the Emperor, Elizabeti's Doll, Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States, Rescuing Seneca Crane

Samir and Yonatan
AuthorDaniella Carmi
ISBN0439135230
Winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award, this very human novel of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is both touching and timely

Nothing could be more frightening to Samir, a Palestinian boy, than to be where he is now: an Israeli hospital ward, trapped among the very people he blames for his...
Between Before and After
AuthorMaureen Doyle McQuerry
ISBN0310767385
“The carnage began with the roses. She hacked at their ruffled blooms until they dropped into monstrous drifts of red on the parched yellow lawn … Only two things kept my mother grounded to us: my uncle Stephen and stories.”

Fourteen-year-old Molly worries about school, friends, and...
The Composition
AuthorAntonio Skármeta
ISBN0888995504
Winner of the UNESCO Tolerance Awarda and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and an Americas Award Commended Title

Life is simple for Pedro -- he goes to school, does his homework and, most importantly, plays soccer. But when the soldiers come and take his friend Daniel's father away, things...
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow (砂漠に咲いたひまわり) Japanese/ English Bilingual
AuthorAmy Lee-Tai
ISBN0892392150
Under the harsh summer sun, Mari's art class has begun. But it's hard to think of anything to draw in a place where nothing beautiful grows—especially a place like Topaz, the internment camp where Mari's family and thousands of other Japanese Americans have been sent to live during World War II. Somehow,...
The Locked Garden
AuthorGloria Whelan
ISBN0060790946
It's the year 1900, the dawn of a new century and a chance for a new beginning for Verna and Carlie, whose mother died two years ago. They are headed to their new home—the grounds of an asylum for the mentally ill. Their father, a doctor, has been hired to treat its patients while the girls are under the strict...
Under the Quilt of Night
AuthorDeborah Hopkinson
ISBN0689877005
Award-winning duo Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome combine their talents once more for this sequel to the best-selling Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Traveling late one night, a runaway slave girl spies a quilt hanging outside a house. The quilt's center is a striking deep blue -- a sign that...
Eyes of the Emperor
AuthorGraham Salisbury
ISBN0440229561
Eddy Okana lies about his age and joins the Army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy—even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers.

Then the Army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American...
Elizabeti's Doll
AuthorStephanie Stuve-Bodeen
ISBN1584300817
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love, and names her Eva.

When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva....
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
AuthorLori Marie Carlson
ISBN0805076166

i think in spanish
i write in english

i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina

tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español

--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato...
Rescuing Seneca Crane
AuthorSusan Runholt
When Kari and Lucas first see Seneca Crane up on stage, playing the piano in front of hundreds of people, they are in awe. She is beautiful. She is amazingly talented. And she is only thirteen! But then they get to know her at the Edinburgh Arts Festival and realize that she envies them. Soon the three are...
Gringolandia
AuthorLyn Miller-Lachmann
ISBN1931896496
Daniel’s papá, Marcelo, used to play soccer, dance the cueca, and drive his kids to school in a beat-up green taxi—all while publishing an underground newspaper that exposed Chile’s military regime.After papá’s arrest in 1980, Daniel’s family fled to the United States. Now Daniel has...
Francie
AuthorKaren English
ISBN0374424594
A distinctive new voice in children's fiction

Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie's father is trying to get settled in Chicago so he can move his family up North.

Unfortunately, he's made promises he hasn't...
Pongwiffy: A Witch of Dirty Habits
AuthorKaye Umansky
ISBN0140342214
Pongwiffy has it all...a hovel of her own, a sometime-friend named Sharkadder, and an odor only a witch could love. Everything is almost perfect -- until a gaggle of Goblins move in next door. Heavens above, they're enough to wake the dead. It's time to move. But where? And where will she find a much-needed...
The Storyteller's Beads
AuthorJane Kurtz
ISBN0152010742
“The Storytellers Beads” by Jane Kurtz (who grew up in a remote village in southwest corner of Ethiopia) is about the main characters, Sahay and Rahel that are both from Ethiopia. Rahel is an Ethiopian Jew who is also blind. Sahay is an Orthodox Christian. The story follows their journey during the...
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
AuthorPearl Fuyo Gaskins
ISBN0805059687
In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another.

Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their...
Breaking Through
AuthorFrancisco Jiménez
ISBN0618342486
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months...
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection
AuthorAlma Flor Ada
ISBN0689825838
Once upon a time, in a land far away... These stories have journeyed far -- over mountains, deserts, and oceans -- carried by wind, passed on to us by our ancestors. Now they have found their way to you.
A sly fox, a bird of a thousand colors, a magical set of bagpipes, and an audacious young girl...A mixture...
Let it Shine
AuthorAshley Bryan
ISBN0689847327
With a kaleidoscope of color and cut paper, Hans Christian Anderson Award nominee and two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan celebrates three favorite spirituals: "This Little Light of Mine," "Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In," and "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." The power...
El profesor Zíper y la fabulosa guitarra eléctrica
AuthorJuan Villoro
ISBN9681902068
Mis hijos lo disfrutaron mucho, aunque a mi el humor se me hizo un poco pasado de moda o no adecuado para el tipo de historia, y el inicio fue aburrido.
Me explico: En las primeras páginas el autor nos presenta a más de cinco personajes distintos, y ninguno de ellos es el protagonista de la historia....
Natacha
AuthorLuis María Pescetti
ISBN9870400701
Aunque es un libro para niños, no me pude resistir a leer a este increíble personaje creado por uno de mis autores preferidos, Luis María Pescetti.
Natacha es una chiquita irreverente, graciosa, traviesa y fascinante. Es un concentrado de todo lo que los niños hacen a lo largo de su infancia,...
Winner Takes All
AuthorJenny Santana
Cast your vote for Coral Grove student rep! Seventh grader Celia Martinez has big plans for an election campaign . . . only she’s not planning to run. Celia has the smarts, but as a certified science nerd, thinks she’s sorely lacking the popularity points to score a big win. Enter Mariela Cruz, Celia’s...
Eva Ibbotson 3-in-1: Which Witch?, The Secret of Platform 13 & Island of the Aunts
AuthorEva Ibbotson
ISBN0525467769
Which Witch?

Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, needs a wife, and, naturally, the only woman a wizard can marry is a witch. But which witch will Arriman choose? Warty, wicked, or just plain rude-witches galore enter his spell-casting competition. Poor Belladonna doesn't have a chance....
Tea for Ruby
AuthorSarah Ferguson
ISBN1416971602
That Ruby! Wherever she goes, table cloths accidentally pull dishes to the floor, flowers get trampled and spaghetti somehow end up in her hair. You can't take Ruby anywhere! One sunny morning, the postman brings Ruby an amazing invitation to have tea with -- the Queen! Ruby had better polish her manners...
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