Books like A New Home
By Tania de Regil
For the kid who's anxious about any big change, this book sits right there in the worry with them, then shows two children feeling the exact same thing from opposite ends of a map. Quiet, tender, and thoughtful, with a gentle back-and-forth rhythm between two cities.
A Black child moves through a year of feelings, from summertime joy on his skateboard to the fear, anger, grief, and eventual peace that follow a police shooting in his community.
A young girl leaves her grandmother's house in Mexico to join her parents and brother in New York, facing a new language, unfair accusations, and the slow work of calling a new place home.
A duckling too odd-looking for his own barnyard is mocked and driven off, then must survive hunters and harsh seasons alone before discovering what he truly is.
A cat on Nantucket Island searches for the perfect place to live, using up eight of his nine lives along the way before finding home.
A Puerto Rican girl grows up surrounded by love and pride in her Taíno and African heritage, but painful treatment from the world slowly dims her sense of her own beauty — until her community rallies to wake her up again.
A young girl is sent alone across the ocean to America after her mother is stopped by the health inspector, only to discover the address of their family in New York has smeared beyond reading.
A poem-portrait of one family — brown-skinned mama, white-skinned daddy, and their two children — celebrates every skin tone between them as simply, joyfully theirs.
A parent looks at a child and wonders aloud, in rhyme, about all the different people they might grow up to be — brave, clever, silly, wise — no matter what.
A New York City boy dreads his family's move out West, convinced he'll have to ride a horse to school, dodge buffaloes, and avoid cactus everywhere he sits.
A boy named Dennis expresses everything through mime — silent, expressive, entirely his own way — until loneliness gives way to friendship when he meets a girl named Joy.
A three-legged kitten named Fanny and her puppy friend Ruby set out to show the other farm animals that being different doesn't mean being less able.
In a Dutch town still recovering after World War II, a girl receives a surprise care package from an American stranger — and a simple thank-you letter grows into an exchange of boxes that keeps getting bigger.
