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• Dreamers

  Morales, Yuyi

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  An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story

• Harbor Me

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world

• We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

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  What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists.

• Finding Langston

  Cline-Ransome, Lesa,

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  Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.

• Louisiana's Way Home

  DiCamillo, Kate,

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  Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.

• Love, Santa

  Brockenbrough, Martha,

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  When she was five years old, Lucy wrote her first letter to Santa and left it by the plate of cookies; when she was eight, she wrote her last Santa letter--and left it on her mother's pillow.