Bibliography created by the Schaumburg Township District Library
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The Farolitos of Christmas by Rudolfo A. Anaya. With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead. |
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FICTION BARTONE, E. |
Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone. Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lights in his Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. |
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EASY BASE, G. |
Jungle Drums by Graeme Base. Tired of being teased, Ngiri, the smallest warthog in Africa, uses a set of magic drums to make wishes, but he is not careful enough and makes the rift between the Warthogs and the beautiful Other Beasts even worse. |
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FICTION BORDEN, L. |
The Greatest Skating Race: a World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden. During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy’s dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies. |
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EASY CHEN, C. |
On My Way to Buy Eggs by Chih-Yuan Chen. On her way to buy eggs for the fried rice for dinner, Shau-Yu takes the reader on a journey filled with adventure and imaginings. |
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FICTION CHINN, K. |
Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn. Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year. |
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EASY DALY, N. |
Where’s Jamela? by Niki Daly. When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela who likes her old house just fine. |
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FICTION DELACRE, L. |
Salsa Stories by Lulu Delacre. A collection of stories of a family’s celebration where the guests relate their memories of growing up in various Latin American countries. Also contains recipes. |
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EASY DIPUCCHIO, K. |
Liberty’s Journey by Kelly DiPucchio. The Statue of Liberty decides to roam the land and visit some of the people she has greeted upon their arrival in the United States, so she steps off her pedestal and takes a walk from sea to sea. |
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EASY DUMAS, B. |
Tia Luisa: the Magical Cook by Bianca Dumas. When Tia Luisa's magical cookbook goes berserk, she discovers it may not be the secret to her success. |
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EASY ENGLISH, K. |
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English. After having a fight, two friends spend the day ignoring each other, until the lure of a game of jump rope helps them to forget about being mad. |
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FICTION GIFF, P. |
A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff. When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home. |
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FICTION GILLES, A. |
Willie Wins by Almira Gilles. Willie's father tells him there is something special in an old coconut bank brought from the Philippines, but Willie is embarrassed to take it to school for a contest, especially since he knows that one of his classmates will make fun of him. |
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FICTION GRIESE, A. |
Anna’s Athabaskan Summer by Arnold Griese. A young Athabaskan girl and her family make the annual return to their fish camp where they prepare for the long winter ahead. |
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FICTION HALL, B. |
Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall. In New York City in the 1920s, the children from Chinatown go after the children from Little Italy for throwing rocks at the beautiful kites Grandfather Chin makes, not realizing that they have a reason for doing so. |
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FICTION HEIDE, F. |
Sami and the Time of the Troubles by Florence Parry Heide. A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street. |
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FICTION HESSE, K. |
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse. Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for starving people behind the dark wall. |
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FICTION HURWITZ, J. |
Fourth Grade Fuss by Johanna Hurwitz. A yard sale, ice skating, class pictures, and a surprise party are a few of the things that make fourth grade fun for Julio and his friends, but they must get serious about studying as the statewide end-of-year test approaches. |
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FICTION MAZER, H. |
A Boy No More by Harry Mazer. After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity. |
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FICTION MCBRIER, P. |
Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier. A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer. |
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FICTION MICHELSON, R. |
Grandpa's Gamble by Richard Michelson. When Grandpa tells a boy and his sister why he prays so much, they stop thinking that he is just a boring old man. |
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FICTION MYERS, T. |
Basho and the River Stones by Tim Myers. Tricked by a fox into giving up his share of cherries, a famous Japanese poet is inspired to write a haiku and the fox, ashamed of his actions, must devise another trick to set things right. |
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FICTION OSWALD, N. |
Nothing Here But Stones: a Jewish Pioneer Story by Nancy Oswald. In 1882, ten-year-old Emma and her family, along with other Russian Jewish immigrants, arrive in Cotopaxi, Colorado, where they face inhospitable conditions as they attempt to start an agricultural colony, and lonely Emma is comforted by the horse whose life she saved. |
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FICTION PORTE, B. |
"Leave That Cricket Be, Alan Lee" by Barbara Ann Porte. Alan Lee hears a cricket singing in his mother's office. When he learns how his great uncle made cricket cages as a young boy in China, he is determined to catch and keep the cricket. |
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FICTION ROSEN, M. |
Elijah's Angel by Michael J. Rosen. Michael, a nine-year-old Jewish boy and Elijah, a black barber, woodcarver, and Christian man in his eighties, form an unusual friendship. |
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FICTION RUSSELL, B. |
The Remembering Stone by Barbara Timberlake Russell. A young girl and her mother watch the flocks of black birds preparing for their journey south, while the mother dreams of returning to Costa Rica where she was born. |
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EASY SCHAEFER, C. |
The Biggest Soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer. When Kessy, who lives in the Truk Islands, is sent by his mother to buy laundry soap, he hurries back to listen to her storytelling, discovering that his own experience makes a good story too. |
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FICTION SHETH, K. |
Blue Jasmine by Kashmira Sheth. Twelve-year-old Seema moves from India to Iowa City and struggles to learn a new culture. When her grandmother falls ill and she visits India again, circumstances help her understand the meaning of “home” and how it is possible to have more than one. |
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FICTION SIEGELSON, K. |
In the Time of the Drums by Kim L. Siegelson. Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship. |
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FICTION STOLZ, J. |
The Shadows of Ghadames by Joelle Stolz. At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things. |
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EASY SU-KENNEDY, H. |
What Do I Do? by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy. Illustrations and brief text present children’s everyday activities, including washing, eating, thinking, pretending, and more. |
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FICTION WINKLER, H. |
Holy Enchilada! by Henry Winkler. Efforts to impress a visiting student from Japan cause Hank to hide his dyslexia while the gang makes enchiladas for a Multi-Cultural Day lunch, and Hank is afraid he was very wrong about the amount of chili powder called for in the recipe. |
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EASY WOODSON, J. |
Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson. After Mama takes a job in Chicago during World War II, Ada Ruth stays with Grandma but misses her mother who loves her more than rain and snow. |
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EASY YOUNG, E. |
I, Doko: the Tale of a Basket by Ed Young. A Nepalese basket tells the story of its use through three generations of a family. |