Books like Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story
By Robert D. San Souci
For the kid who roots hard for the underdog and wants to see kindness actually pay off, Sootface delivers that satisfaction in a setting rarely seen on picture book shelves. Quietly hopeful, grounded in Ojibwa tradition, with the steady pull of a classic tale being retold.
A biography of Wilma Mankiller, who was forced from her Cherokee Oklahoma home as a child, found community in San Francisco, and returned home to become the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
A girl in Hawaiʻi who feels neither wahine nor kane sets her sights on leading her school's boys-only hula troupe in a traditional kane chant.
A little raccoon transforms into a fearless superhero every afternoon, battling zombie bears and alien robots — until a real bully in the school cafeteria puts his imaginary courage to the test.
A poem honoring Black American life across history — the pain of slavery, the courage of the civil rights movement, and the achievements of dreamers, artists, and everyday heroes.
In 1707, an eight-year-old girl travels into the Connecticut wilderness with her father to build a new home, then must find her courage when he leaves her with their Indian neighbors.
After a hunter kills his mother, a young elephant flees to the city, where a kindly old woman takes him in — then he returns to the great forest with his cousins Celeste and Arthur to become King of the Elephants.
When her mother is deported to Mexico for not being born in the U.S., eight-year-old Estela writes letter after letter — to newspapers, Congress, even the President — until someone finally listens.
A picture-book biography traces Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s path from a childhood in the segregated South to becoming a minister and civil rights leader, told through his own powerful words.
An overworked girl named Blanche shows kindness to a strange old witch-woman and follows her into a world of two-headed cows and dancing rabbits, where talking eggs offer a choice that will test her heart.
A gentle pony too plain for the beautiful horses inside the walled city ends up the only one who can save its children when the bridge breaks in half.
A father is proud of both his daughters, but when the Great King summons the most worthy young women in the land to appear before him, only one can become queen.
Every Christmas Eve, hungry trolls knock down Kyri's door and gobble up her family's feast, but this year a boy traveling to Oslo with his pet ice bear might finally put a stop to it.
