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Title: My Beautiful Birds Author: Suzanne Del Rizzo Illustrator: Suzanne Del Rizzo Publisher: Pajama Press Publication Date: March 8 2017 ISBN: 978-1772780109 Audience: 6-10 years Summary:  Sami, about six or seven years old, tells this story.   His is one of the families that

Title: The Barefoot Book of Children Author: Strickland, Tessa and Kate Depalma Illustrator: David Dean Publisher: Barefoot Books Publication Date: October 1, 2016 ISBN: 978-1782852964 Audience: 5 – 8 years Summary: With its opening pages this book invites children (and those who

Title: I’m New Here Author: Anne Sibley O’Brien Illustrator: Anne Sibley O’Brien Publisher:  Charlesbridge ISBN:  9781580896122 Audience:  K-Gr. 2 Summary:  Three children from other cultures struggle and succeed in adapting to their new elementary school in America. Literary

The earliest stories of our faith describe a wandering people.  And the Israelites are told to remember the experience of having to leave their homes and use it to inform their lives after they are settled again.  “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were

Title: The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough Author: Katie Smith Milway Illustrator: Sylvie Daigneault Publisher: Kids Can Press (September 1, 2010) ISBN: 978-1554534883 Audience: Ages 8-12 (grades 3-7) Summary: Maria Luz and her family are poor

Title: Cups Held Out Author: Judith L. Roth Illustrator: Brooke Rothshank Publisher: Herald Press (September 13, 2006) ISBN: 978-0836193169 Audience: ages 4 and up Summary: A young girl and her father cross the border into Mexico where she encounters poverty for the first time.

Title: The Lunch Thief Author: Anne C. Bromley Illustrator: Robert Casilla Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers; First hardcover edition (June 15, 2010) ISBN: 978-0884483113 Audience: ages 8 and up Summary:  “Hey Rafael, how come you’re not eating?” asks my best friend Alfredo

Title:  God Bless the Child Author: Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. Illustrator:  Jerry Pinkney Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers Publication Date:  Words and Music copyright 1941/Illustrations 2004 ISBN:  978060287979 Audience:  Though this is clearly a picture book, the

Title of Book:  Stellaluna Author:  Janelle Cannon Publisher and Publication date:  Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993 ISBN number:  0-15-280217-7 Audience:  Ages 4 – 8 Summary:  Stellaluna is a baby bat who is separated from her mother during an owl attack.  She ends up in

  Title:   Messenger Author:  Lois Lowry Illustrator:  None Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Publication Date:  Reissue September 2012 ISBN:  978-0547995670 Audience: 12 and up Summary: Matty, a lively boy entering adolescence, lives with Seer, his blind