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Find more great books on our sister sites! Welcome to Colorín Colorado’s Book Finder! Using the Book Finder, you can search for books by categories such as age, language, and topic! We are still adding books from our themed booklists. If your search doesn't bring up results, try using different or fewer filters to get a broader selection of titles. For additional resources related to diverse books, see Using Diverse Books with ELLs: A Guide for Educators.

Note: A diverse panel of authors and educators has advised us in our development of this tool. ¡Tess espera con gran ansiedad la llegada del autobús de la escuela! "¿Es éste nuestro autobús, Gus?" ella continúa preguntando, a medida que un taxi, un camión de helados y los bomberos van pasando. La repetición de las preguntas y las respuestas a lo largo de la historia hará que éste sea un magnífico libro para leerle en voz alta a los pequeños alumnos y a los chiquitines... Las ilustraciones en acuarelas de gran colorido complementan el texto. Edición bilingüe disponible.

Un niño sale al alba de su casa. Mientras cuenta sus pasos, se interna por bosques de arrayanes, atraviesa inmensos potreros y cruza caudalosos ríos. ¿Adónde lo lleva este largo camino? Todos los días, millones de niñas y niños alrededor del mundo asisten a la escuela en sus ciudades o pueblos. Pero otros miles deben recorrer largas distancias a través de selvas, ríos, cerros y llanuras para poder estudiar. Este emocionante libro es un homenaje a su esfuerzo diario, al deseo de aprender y al derecho a la educación.

Abuelo y nieta meditan sobre jardines y semillas, sobre círculos visibles e invisibles, mientras participan y crean tradiciones familiares en esta hermosa exploración de los ciclos de la vida y naturaleza. La versión en inglés ganó el premio Pura Belpre Honor por Illustración en el 2018. Rosalba se imagina que sobrevuela la ciudad de Nueva York City junto con su muy querida abuela. La jovencita utiliza una encantadora mezcla de inglés y de español para describir su viaje, recorriendo desde las concurridas calles de Manhattan hasta la Estatua de la Libertad. Las alegres ilustraciones en vivos colores ofrecen detalles de lo que Rosalba y su abuela ven durante su vuelo, así como de los ricos relatos de las memorias de la abuela. Versión en español disponible.

Crow sabe dónde hallar agua entre las piedras y cómo llegar a ella aunque se encuentre fuera del alcance de su pico. Los predecibles patrones y repetición de palabras de este sencillo relato de fábula invitan a participar. Las vívidas ilustraciones usan formas amplias y líneas concretas con bordes bien delineados en un formato pequeño que resulta ideal para el nuevo lector o para compartir leyendo el libro en la falda. Learn more about where you can find titles of diverse books and how to evaluate book choices in your instruction. This article is part of our guide to using diverse books with ELLs. Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami, illustrated by Jamel Akib

There are many places where you can find recommendations of diverse books across multiple cultures, experiences, perspectives, and identities. There are also some strategies you can use to learn more about the books you are reviewing and ensure authenticity for the books you choose. Here are some ideas to help your search. Image: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin These dynamic, diverse graphic novels include a number of award-winning titles that explore big topics and social issues as well as the details of every day life. For as long as she can remember, it’s been Robin and her mom against the world.

Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea wasn’t always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation — following her mother’s announcement that she’s getting married — Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn’t understand the language and struggles to keep up. The timid 2nd grader is back, this time fearful of an upcoming camping trip with his father. Alvin's siblings try to help him but actually create a different sort of disaster.

Readers will enjoy laughing along with these memorable characters. Three storylines — contemporary and mythic — intersect in this tale of a boy who is not comfortable with his culture or himself. This fresh, sometimes surprising, revealing novel is told in image and text. While author Gene Luen Yang says American Born Chinese is not strictly autobiographical, he does say that he pulled from his own life for inspiration. This graphic novel was the first of its format to win the Printz Award for best work of Young Adult Literature. Jorge seems to have it all together.

He's big enough that nobody really messes with him, but he's also a genuinely sweet guy with a solid, reliable group of friends. The only time he ever really feels off his game is when he crosses paths with a certain girl... But when the group dynamic among the boys starts to shift, will Jorge be able to balance what his friends expect of him versus what he actually wants? This section includes a number of resources focused on English Language Learners (ELLs) in middle and high school. Topics include reading instruction for older students, content instruction, social and emotional issues, and college readiness. To see great ELL instruction in middle and high school classrooms, take a look at our classroom video library!

From Pura Belpré Award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall comes the first in the Seasons of Sisterhood trilogy: a reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone set in the world of her bestselling Summer of the Mariposas. As fifteen-year-old twins Delia and Velia plan the launch of their Magic-Twin Tour with their father's Tejano band, a sudden supernatural attack on their father derails the family. Papá is delirious with a susto, a fright so awful that it allows a mysterious supernatural being to begin slowly sucking the life out of him. As the twins hunt down his attacker, a wider world of borderland monsters opens up to them. Each twin has her own decision to make, with her own guide from the Aztec pantheon--Quetzalcoatl guiding Velia, and Xolotl advising Delia. Soon the girls must choose: Should they follow a divine mandate to become monster hunters for the goddess of death?

Can the sisters obey the will of the gods while saving their father's life? Anything can happen within the magical realm of the borderlands. These books tell the stories of young Asian Pacific Americans who must navigate the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of living between two worlds as they are coming of age. "T. J. Jones, the mixed-race, larger-than-life, heroic, first-person narrator of this novel, lays out the events of his senior year, with many digressions along the way.

The central plot involves T. J.'s efforts to put together a swim team of misfits, as he tries to upset the balance of power at his central Washington high school, where jocks and the narrow-minded rule. However, a number of subplots deal with racism, child abuse, and the efforts of the protagonist's adopted father to come to grips with a terrible mistake in his past." — School Library Journal After World War II has ended, twelve-year-old Hanako feels lost. America, the only home she's ever known, imprisoned then rejected her and her family, along with thousands of other innocent Americans, because of their Japanese heritage. Japan, the country they've been forced to move to, where they were supposed to start new and better lives, is in shambles because of America's bombs.

And Hanako's grandparents live in a small village just outside the ravaged city. Young Yu is only four years old when she takes an airplane from Korea to California, feeling she is only "a step from Heaven." Her narration subtly matures as she grows into a capable... Product Description: Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family — and the terrible secret — he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events force him to choose between silence and candor, blame and forgiveness, fear and freedom. By turns harrowing, dreamlike, sad, and triumphant, this searing debut novel, written in lucid verse, reveals an unforgettable perspective on the lasting impact of war and the healing power of love. Welcome back.

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