Pages tagged with « multicultural »
Marisol McDonald doesn't match
by Monica Brown
Ages 4 - 8
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A unique, bilingual, Peruvian-Scottish-American-soccer-playing artist celebrates her individuality.
Dancing home
by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M Zubizarreta
Ages 9 - 12
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When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
Dumpling days
by Grace Lin
Ages 9 - 12
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When Pacy, her two sisters, and their parents go to Taiwan to celebrate Grandma's sixtieth birthday, the girls learn a great deal about their heritage.
Yoko Learns to Read
by Rosemary Wells
Ages 4 - 8
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Yoko learns to read then helps her Japanese speaking mother learn to read English.
Many Days, One Shabbat
by Fran Manushkin
Ages 4 - 8
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One light. Many candles. One challah. Many slices. A family gets ready to celebrate the Sabbath. It welcomes guests, enjoys a nice meal, and savors a few quiet moments together. Shabbat Shalom!
Words in the dust
by Trent Reedy
Ages 10 and up
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Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
The wise fool
retold by Shahrukh Husain
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A retelling of twenty-two Middle Eastern folktales about Mulla Nasreddin Hoca, a wise man remembered for his insightful and humorous stories.
Lola's fandango
by Anna Witte
Ages 4 - 8
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After learning how to dance a style of flamenco known as the fandango, Lola plans a surprise for her mother's birthday.
The unforgotten coat
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Ages 9 - 12
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When two Mongolian brothers inexplicably appear one morning in her sixth grade class, Julie, who lives in a town near Liverpool named Bootle, becomes their new friend and "Good Guide," navigating them through soccer, school uniforms, and British slang.
The grand plan to fix everything
by Uma Krishnaswami
Ages 9 - 12
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Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
