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Celebrate a nation of diverse readers with these recommended books, authors, and teaching resources.
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Exploring Identity

Help readers recognize that it is important to see both their own identities and the identities of others in the stories they read.
By: National Education Association
Published: January 27, 2021

Books of the month:

Books of the month:

Elementary

Julián Is a Mermaid

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Julián Is a Mermaid

by Jessica Love

After seeing three women spectacularly dressed up as mermaids, Julián makes his own mermaid costume from Abuela’s curtain and potted fern. What will she think of the mess—and of Julián the mermaid?
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Middle Grade

Ghost Boys

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Ghost Boys

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The dead are never gone, and the spirits of murdered African-American boys have a mission to continue on and bear witness.
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Young Adult

The Prince and the Dressmaker

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The Prince and the Dressmaker

by Jen Wang

By day, Prince Sebastian is heir to the throne; by night, he’s the fashionable Lady Crystallia made all the more fabulous by Frances, his secret dressmaker.
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Celebrate a nation of diverse readers with these recommended books, authors, and teaching resources.
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