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2024 AAPINH Heritage Month Children's Selections
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Kids)
AANHPI Authors: Board & Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Kids)
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"An's grandmother Bà sometimes gets trapped in her cloudy memories. An and her grandfather Ông come up with a plan to bring her back to a happy moment: growing gấc fruits so they can make xôi gấc, Bà's favorite dish from her wedding in Vietnam many years ago. An and Ông must be patient as the seeds grow, flower, and turn into fruit. When the xôi gấc is finally ready, An is hopeful that her grandmother will remember her wedding wish with...
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2nd Grade Recommended Reads
At the Library Children's
OBD National Library Week (April) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Early Readers)
At the Library Children's
OBD National Library Week (April) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Early Readers)
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"The Bad Seed is in a good mood ... for once. That's because there's a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads, until the book can't be read anymore. But suddenly, he gets bad news: The book must be returned to the library so another seed can enjoy it. Will the bad seed return to his baaaaaad ways and keep the book? Pick up this really cool book to find out! The Bad Seed Goes to the Library is a Level...
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"Luke gets so many presents for his birthday that when his grandfather gives him a bag of seeds, he's rather disappointed. But his grandfather tells him that if he plants and cares for these little seeds, they could become the best present of all. Luke wants to believe him, but it's hard when so little happens day after day. Will Luke have the patience to nurture the seeds into something truly special? Here is a lovely tael told by renowned picture...
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"Jerome and his fellow Garden of Wonder dwellers--including Oakie, his pet acorn; Nutilda, a hyperactive squirrel; and Warble, a fast-talking bird--learn what it takes to make a happiness seed blossom. Through patience, asking for help, and teamwork, Jerome and his friends take a little black seed left on a windowsill and find ways to help it grow. They soon find that as it flourishes, their own happiness does too. Jerome the Gnome teaches young readers...
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"Sprout, Seed, Sprout! is the story of a young boy who, like many children, has decided to plant a seed--in this case, an avocado seed. And as with so many things in life, the process takes a good while longer than anticipated ... A meditation on patience and perseverance, combined with humour (and an utterly charming cat), this title has lots of patterning and repetition and will make a great choice for storytime."--
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"When Maya moves to a different country, she feels lonely and lost. Everything and everyone seems so unfamiliar here, and she wonders if she will ever find a way to fit in. Longing for her home, she holds tightly to the special seeds her grandmother gave her, afraid to plant them. Can she take the risk that they, and she, might grow and bloom in this new place?"--
30) A wish is a seed
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Compares a wish to a seed, which is carried on the wind, lands in a patch of hardened ground, and eventually becomes a tree that generates new seeds and wishes.
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"Oscar's mom has to go away for a little while, so Oscar is staying with his nana. He likes being with Nana in her apartment building, but he still misses his mom. One day, Nana has an idea, and together they carefully sow seeds--lots and lots of seeds! They water them and wait . . . and then the seeds start to grow and the flowers begin to bloom and there are plants everywhere. Luckily Oscar has a great idea for what they can do with the blossoms--share...
34) Bloom
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"Sorrel Fallowfield is so good at being good that teachers come to her when they need help remembering the school rules - and there are lots. Luckily, Sorrel doesn't have any trouble following them, until the day she discovers a faded packet of Surprising Seeds buried under a tree in her backyard. Now she's hearing voices, seeing things, experiencing an almost unstoppable urge to plant the seeds in some very unusual places and completely failing to...
36) Little seed
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Little Seed has a very big wish: figure out how to hug the whole world.
37) Pumpkin seeds
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"While Mom makes pumpkin soup, Ravi prepares the pumpkin seeds. Lively text and illustrations will draw in emergent readers. Pairs with the nonfiction title Let's Look at Pumpkins"--
38) Little seeds
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Simple rhyming text follows a child who plants flower seeds in a garden and loves to watch them grow.
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In a land that has stood barren, parched by drought and ravaged by frosts since the Queen's death, the King sets his three daughters the task of making the kingdom bloom again, and discovers that sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference.