Girl running on a pier
By: Frederick Lipp
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Sophy longs with all of her heart to attend school, but it is too far away to walk without running shoes. When a kind stranger sends her a pair of shoes, Sophy doesn't waste any time running all 8 kilometers straight to the school.

Young boy with a khim
By: Michelle Lord
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In his Cambodian village, Arn's home was filled with music and laughter. But when the Khmer Rouge arrived, Arn's world was turned upside down and he never saw his family again.

A young girl who is afraid to go to school
By: Jorge Tetl Argueta
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Five-year-old Luna is afraid she'll find monsters at her new school until a kind teacher and her new classmates show her that she has nothing to fear in this touching bilingual story.

By: Uma Krishnaswami
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Product Description: Neel loves listening to Chachaji's stories over steaming cups of tea. Chachaji's tales of great Hindu gods and demons, and of his adventures in the Indian Army, leave Neel openmouthed.

By: Joseph Bruchac
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Watching a raccoon's unwieldy movements, you'd think that it always walked that way. Not so, according to an Abenaki tale, vividly retold and illustrated by this father & son duo.
By: Brian Selznick
When he was 10 years old, Victor wanted to be just like master magician Harry Houdini.
Man with a horse
By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

As a young boy, Hoi comes to America from China to help build the railroad. Only a skinny boy at first, his love for American pies quickly helps him gain in size and strength — and earns him the nickname of Pie-Biter.

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