[ISLMA-Share] Suggestions for Mexican/White biracial children's books

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The First Rule of Punk is a novel in which the girl really wrestles with
being biracial/ bicultural and what that means to her.


Taryn Hettlinger Parise
Library Learning Center Director
Longfellow School

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> This year's Bluestem nominee *Separate is Never Equal* really got my 3rd
> grade's attention.
>
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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>> *Sylvia and Aki *by Winifred Conkling.  This novel presents a
>> fictionalized account of injustices endured by two real California children
>> during World War II and is based on multiple interviews with both and other
>> historical records. In alternating chapters Conkling follows the forced
>> relocation of young Aki Munemitsu and her family to a camp in Arizona and
>> the experiences of Sylvia Mendez, who moves into Aki’s old room when her
>> father rents the Munemitsus’ asparagus farm. (From Booklist)
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Ericka Schilling <
>> erickaschilling1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> *Esperanza Rising* and *Becoming Naomi Leon* both by Pam Munoz Ryan.
>>> *How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay* by Julia Alvarez
>>> *Romiette and Julio *by Sharon Draper
>>>
>>> Not sure what age range you are looking for but these are in my upper
>>> elementary and junior high collections.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *Marisol MacDonald Doesn't Match* by Monica Brown. The character is
>>>> Peruvian, I believe, rather than Mexican, but the book explicitly describes
>>>> how she doesn't "match" people's expectations and what happens when she
>>>> tries to.
>>>>
>>>> Anna Kim
>>>> School Librarian
>>>> Chappell Elementary School
>>>> akim6 at cps.edu
>>>>
>>>> "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of
>>>> men."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                        -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>>>>
>>>> Follow me on Goodreads
>>>> <http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3232421-anna-kim>!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
>>>> Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking for some biracial/bicultural children's books with
>>>>> Mexican/White characters.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Carrie Cross
>>>>> Library Media Specialist
>>>>> Elementary West
>>>>> Library Media Specialist
>>>>>
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