<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">This year's Bluestem nominee <i>Separate is Never Equal</i> really got my 3rd grade's attention.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i>Sylvia and Aki </i>by Winifred Conkling. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">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)</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Ericka Schilling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erickaschilling1997@gmail.com" target="_blank">erickaschilling1997@gmail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i>Esperanza Rising</i> and <i>Becoming Naomi Leon</i> both by Pam Munoz Ryan.<div><i>How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay</i> by Julia Alvarez</div><div><i>Romiette and Julio </i>by Sharon Draper</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure what age range you are looking for but these are in my upper elementary and junior high collections.</div></div><div class="m_-1817149876239499260HOEnZb"><div class="m_-1817149876239499260h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.inf<wbr>o</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i>Marisol MacDonald Doesn't Match</i> 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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-1817149876239499260m_-2914202821925547365m_3002355169486260158gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Anna Kim</div><div>School Librarian</div><div>Chappell Elementary School</div><div><a href="mailto:akim6@cps.edu" target="_blank">akim6@cps.edu</a></div><div><br></div>"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."<div><br></div><div> -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br><br>Follow me on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3232421-anna-kim" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>!<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="m_-1817149876239499260m_-2914202821925547365h5">
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