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Celebrate a nation of diverse readers with these recommended books, authors, and teaching resources.
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Nurture Family Bonds

Look at books together that help build awareness about the diversity of families and what being a part of a family can mean.
By: National Education Association
Published: April 1, 2022

Books of the month:

Books of the month:

Elementary

I’ll Go and Come Back

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I’ll Go and Come Back

by Rajani Larocca

Jyoti and her grandmother, who lives in India, create special memories when they are together. Rather than saying goodbye, they look forward to the future when they will see each other again.
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Middle Grade

Lotería

Loteria book cover

Lotería

by Karla Arenas Valenti

Eleven-year-old Clara searches for her missing cousin Esteban, not knowing that Life and Death have come to Oaxaca City and selected her as a pawn in their annual Lotería game.
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Young Adult

White Smoke

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White Smoke

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Thanks to her mom’s new job, Mari and her newly blended multi-racial family get free housing and a fresh start in an oddly renovated home in the decaying town of Cedarville, where her stepsister makes a new friend that no one else has seen.
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