Books like En realidad, es Yefferson
By Katherine Trejo y Scott Martin-Rowe
For the kid who's ever felt too shy to correct a grown-up, even about something as personal as their own name. Tender, encouraging, and quietly proud, with a gentle back-to-school warmth.
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 spirited young girl navigates segregated 1950s Nashville alone, facing Jim Crow signs and painful moments on her way to the one welcoming place in town: the public library.
A girl so worried about fitting in that she never admits she loves lima beans wakes up one day covered in stripes that keep changing — and can't seem to recognize herself anymore.
A rhyming, day-in-the-life look at a school where kids from every background arrive, share their traditions and talents, and are welcomed exactly as they are.
A boy named Dat starts school in a new country where every word sounds like gibberish, until a classmate finds another way to reach him besides talking.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
A teacher searches for the words to tell her class about American slavery, tracing the story from fireside tales in Africa through the Atlantic crossing to the fields of the South.
A champion Italian cyclist who won the 1938 Tour de France secretly uses his bicycle and racing fame to help save Jewish lives during World War II, risking everything without ever telling a soul.
A poodle growing up among three talented bulldog brothers isn't sure what makes her special — until Gaston's sister Ooh-La-La goes missing in the park and Antoinette feels a pull to find her.
An introduction to gender identity for young readers, explaining that some people are boys, some are girls, and some are both, neither, or somewhere in between.
In a world where girls only wear dresses and boys only wear pants, a determined young girl named Mary decides she'll simply wear whatever she wants.
A boy who loves the playground keeps running into Sammy, a boy who calls himself King and threatens to bury him, cage him with bears, or tie him to the slide — so his dad helps him figure out what to do.
