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¡Essie! ¿Otra Vez?

by Jenny Lacika

Age 3 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

A Big Mooncake for Little Star

by Grace Lin

Age 04 or older

Community: Chinese/Chinese American, Taiwanese/Taiwanese American

A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

by Laura Taylor Namey

Age 12 or older

Community: Cuban/Cuban American

A Different Pond

by Bao Phi

Age 07 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

A Feast for Joseph

by Terry Farish

Age 05 and older

Community: Sudanese/Sudanese American

A Girl’s Guide to Love and Magic

by Debbie Rigaud

Age 12 or older

Community: Haitian/Haitian American

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Teen Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival: Young Readers’ Edition

by Melissa Fleming

Age 12 or older

Community: Syrian/Syrian American

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

by Ishmael Beah

Age 16 or older

Community: Sierra Leonean/Sierra Leonean American

A Mermaid Girl

by Sana Rafi

Age 05 or older

Community: Muslim/Muslim American, Pakistani/Pakistani American

A Morning With Grandpa

by Sylvia Liu

Age 05 or older

Community: Unspecified (Asian)

A Pho Love Story

by Loan Le

Age 12 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

A Sky-Blue Bench

by Bahram Rahman

Age 04 or older

Community: Afghan/Afghan American

A Song of Frutas

by Margarita Engle

Age 04 or older

Community: Cuban/Cuban American

A Sweet New Year for Ren

by Michelle Sterling

Age 04 or older

Community: Chinese/Chinese American
A Thousand Questions

A Thousand Questions

by Saadia Faruqi

Age 08 or older

Community: Pakistani/Pakistani American

A Thousand White Butterflies

by Jessica Betancourt-Perez

Age 05 or older

Community: Colombian/Colombian American

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

by Tahereh Mafi

Age 13 or older

Community: Iranian/Iranian American, Muslim/Muslim American

Abuela’s Super Capa

by Ana Siqueira

Age 4 or older

Community: Unspecified (Hispanic/Latinx)

Abuelita and Me

by Leonarda Carranza

Age 04 or older

Community: Unspecified (Hispanic/Latinx)

Abuelita y Yo

by Leonarda Carranza

Age 04 or older

Community: Unspecified (Hispanic/Latinx)

Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival

by Marsha Forchuk Skyrpuch

Age 06 or older

Community: Vietnamese/Vietnamese American

After the Last Border

by Jessica Goudeau

Age 16 or older

Community: Burmese/Burmese American, Muslim/Muslim American, Syrian/Syrian American

After the Rain

by Nnedi Okorafor

Age 14 or older

Community: Nigerian/Nigerian American

Again, Essie?

by Jenny Lacika

Age 3 or older

Community: Mexican/Mexican American

Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year

by Nina Hamza

Age 08 or older

Community: Indian/Indian American, Muslim/Muslim American

Akata Woman

by Nnedi Okorafor

Age 12 or older

Community: Nigerian/Nigerian American

Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un cuento de Puerto Rico

by Lesléa Newman

Age 6 or older

Community: Puerto Rican

Alive in the Killing Fields

by Nawuth Keat

Age 12 or older

Community: Cambodian/Cambodian American

All For One, Definitely Dominguita #3

by Terry Catasus Jennings

Age 06 or older

Community: Cuban/Cuban American

All My Rage

by Sabaa Tahir

Age 14 or older

Community: Pakistani/Pakistani American

Alma and How She Got Her Name

by Juana Martinez-Neal

Age 05 or older

Community: Peruvian/Peruvian American

Alma y como obtuvo su nombre (Alma and How She Got Her Name)

by Juana Martinez-Neal

Age 05 or older

Community: Peruvian/Peruvian American