Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 1595723102
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Layla is a shy new girl in first grade and her classmates wonder why she wears a head scarf. As the school day progresses, the first graders learn about Layla's culture and help make her feel more at ease in her new school. Part of the We Love First Grade!™ series.
Layla's Head Scarf
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 1595723102
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Layla is a shy new girl in first grade and her classmates wonder why she wears a head scarf. As the school day progresses, the first graders learn about Layla's culture and help make her feel more at ease in her new school. Part of the We Love First Grade!™ series.
Publisher: Star Bright Books
ISBN: 1595723102
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Layla is a shy new girl in first grade and her classmates wonder why she wears a head scarf. As the school day progresses, the first graders learn about Layla's culture and help make her feel more at ease in her new school. Part of the We Love First Grade!™ series.
Layla's Head Scarf
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595721785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After wondering about the new girl's hijab, the class learns just how much they all have in common.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595721785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
After wondering about the new girl's hijab, the class learns just how much they all have in common.
Will the Word Eater
Author: Roger Rosen
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
ISBN: 1725394316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Will has a lot to say, but he knows from experience that it’s not always safe to say what’s on his mind. At home and at school, with his father and his friends, Will has been gulping down his words for a long time. He doesn’t know how many more words he’ll be able to swallow. Then he meets a writer who won’t take back his words, and Will understands what being brave can mean. As Will’s words begin to flow, he tastes for the first time what self-expression without fear can be.
Publisher: 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'
ISBN: 1725394316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Will has a lot to say, but he knows from experience that it’s not always safe to say what’s on his mind. At home and at school, with his father and his friends, Will has been gulping down his words for a long time. He doesn’t know how many more words he’ll be able to swallow. Then he meets a writer who won’t take back his words, and Will understands what being brave can mean. As Will’s words begin to flow, he tastes for the first time what self-expression without fear can be.
Me and White Supremacy
Author: Layla F. Saad
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728209811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. "Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."—Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728209811
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. "Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice."—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining: Examining your own white privilege What allyship really means Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation Changing the way that you view and respond to race How to continue the work to create social change Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change. "Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action."—Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility
Facing a Frenemy
Author: Jan Fields
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1629682349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Meri knows best friends forever don't always last, but why did her ex-best turn into the meanest girl in school? With help from one of the spunkiest girls in children's literature, Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables, Meri works to unravel the mystery of best friend turned worst bully. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1629682349
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Meri knows best friends forever don't always last, but why did her ex-best turn into the meanest girl in school? With help from one of the spunkiest girls in children's literature, Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables, Meri works to unravel the mystery of best friend turned worst bully. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Matzah Craze
Author: Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ®
ISBN: 1728424976
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When Noa refuses to swap food from her lunch one day, her friends wonder why. She explains it's because it's Passover. For the rest of the week, she brings Passover foods to school to share with her friends to let them enjoy the holiday fun.
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing ®
ISBN: 1728424976
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
When Noa refuses to swap food from her lunch one day, her friends wonder why. She explains it's because it's Passover. For the rest of the week, she brings Passover foods to school to share with her friends to let them enjoy the holiday fun.
Freedom Soup
Author: Tami Charles
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
“A Haitian grandmother and granddaughter share a holiday, a family recipe, and a story of freedom. . . . A stunning and necessary historical picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The shake-shake of maracas vibrates down to my toes. Ti Gran’s feet tap-tap to the rhythm. Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make Freedom Soup just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the history of Belle’s family, and the history of Haiti, where Belle’s family is from. In this celebration of cultural traditions passed from one generation to the next, Jacqueline Alcántara’s lush illustrations bring to life both Belle’s story and the story of the Haitian Revolution. Tami Charles’s lyrical text, as accessible as it is sensory, makes for a tale that readers will enjoy to the last drop.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536221651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
“A Haitian grandmother and granddaughter share a holiday, a family recipe, and a story of freedom. . . . A stunning and necessary historical picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The shake-shake of maracas vibrates down to my toes. Ti Gran’s feet tap-tap to the rhythm. Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make Freedom Soup just like she was taught when she was a little girl. Together, they dance and clap as they prepare the holiday feast, and Ti Gran tells Belle about the history of the soup, the history of Belle’s family, and the history of Haiti, where Belle’s family is from. In this celebration of cultural traditions passed from one generation to the next, Jacqueline Alcántara’s lush illustrations bring to life both Belle’s story and the story of the Haitian Revolution. Tami Charles’s lyrical text, as accessible as it is sensory, makes for a tale that readers will enjoy to the last drop.
Rifka Takes a Bow
Author: Rebecca Rosenberg Perlov
Publisher: Kar-Ben
ISBN: 0761381287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rifka?s parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role! A slice of immigrant life on New York?s Second Avenue, this is a unique book about a vanished time and a place ? the Yiddish theater in the early 20th century?made real through the telling of the true life story of the 96-year-old author as a little girl.
Publisher: Kar-Ben
ISBN: 0761381287
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Rifka?s parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role! A slice of immigrant life on New York?s Second Avenue, this is a unique book about a vanished time and a place ? the Yiddish theater in the early 20th century?made real through the telling of the true life story of the 96-year-old author as a little girl.
Hair Story
Author: NoNieqa Ramos
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1728476194
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! With rhythmic, rhyming verse, this picture book follows two girls—one non-Black Puerto Rican, one Black—as they discover the stories their hair can tell. Preciosa has hair that won’t stay straight, won’t be confined. Rudine’s hair resists rollers, flat irons, and rules. Together, the girls play hair salon! They take inspiration from their moms, their neighbors, their ancestors, and cultural icons. They discover that their hair holds roots of the past and threads of the future. With rhythmic, rhyming verse and vibrant collage art, author NoNieqa Ramos and illustrator Keisha Morris follow two girls as they discover the stories hair can tell.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN: 1728476194
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! With rhythmic, rhyming verse, this picture book follows two girls—one non-Black Puerto Rican, one Black—as they discover the stories their hair can tell. Preciosa has hair that won’t stay straight, won’t be confined. Rudine’s hair resists rollers, flat irons, and rules. Together, the girls play hair salon! They take inspiration from their moms, their neighbors, their ancestors, and cultural icons. They discover that their hair holds roots of the past and threads of the future. With rhythmic, rhyming verse and vibrant collage art, author NoNieqa Ramos and illustrator Keisha Morris follow two girls as they discover the stories hair can tell.
Elena's Story
Author: Nancy Shaw
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1410310337
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Elena lives near a small town in western Guatemala. She lives there with her mother, her younger brother, Luis, and her baby sister, Ana. Her father is far away, working on a plantation. Elena struggles to keep up in school. Her teacher says she needs to practice her reading, but it's hard to find time to read. She must help her mother with the cooking and housework, as well as the hard work of planting and weeding their garden. As the big sister Elena is also in charge of watching over Luis to keep him out of mischief. It isn't always easy and she gets impatient with her little brother. But at the end of the day, when Elena shares a book with Luis, carefully sounding out the words, she comes to better understand and appreciate her role in the family.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1410310337
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Elena lives near a small town in western Guatemala. She lives there with her mother, her younger brother, Luis, and her baby sister, Ana. Her father is far away, working on a plantation. Elena struggles to keep up in school. Her teacher says she needs to practice her reading, but it's hard to find time to read. She must help her mother with the cooking and housework, as well as the hard work of planting and weeding their garden. As the big sister Elena is also in charge of watching over Luis to keep him out of mischief. It isn't always easy and she gets impatient with her little brother. But at the end of the day, when Elena shares a book with Luis, carefully sounding out the words, she comes to better understand and appreciate her role in the family.