Kids Like Me in China by Ying Ying Fry, Amy Klatzkin, Brian Boyd
Reading level: Ages 9-12

In this first view of China adoption from a child's perspective, eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry returns to her orphanage to remember what it is like and to write a story so that other adopted children will understand where they came from.

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Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Reading level: Young Adult

This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

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Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell
Reading level: Ages 6 and older

In November 1960, a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshalls, walked through a mob of screaming segregationalists and into her school. Ruby Bridges tells of each dramatic step of this event in history.

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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1st Avenue) by Connie Roop, Peter Geiger Roop, Peter E. Hanson
Reading level: Ages 4-8

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie tells the story of a young girl left in charge of keeping the lighthouse lights burning. She was left in charge by her father who had to leave to get much needed supplies and medicine for the mother who was ill. A sudden storm that lasted four weeks prevented her father from returning.

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