Booklist: I'm Your Neighbor Books

Books from the "I'm Your Neighbor" website, and about building a welcoming community.

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Book cover for "All of us"
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3.8 stars
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Simple text and collage illustrations remind the reader that we are stronger together than alone.
Book cover for "I am both"
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"For Hương, life in Saigon, Vietnam, is mostly normal--at least, as normal as it can be while a war is going on. But when her family decides to take the last flight out of the country to build a new life in America, [she] worries about missing her home. Through new friends and old traditions, Hương learns that no matter where we go, the smell of home and the taste of love can be found anywhere, as long as we have our family"-- "For Huong, life...
Book cover for "A new kind of wild"
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5 stars
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"When Ren moves to Ava's city, he feels lost without the green and magic of his home, but not everything in the city is what meets the eye and Ren discovers that nothing makes you feel at home quite like a friend"--
Book cover for "I walk with Vanessa"
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4.5 stars
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An elementary school girl witnesses the bullying of another girl, but she is not sure how to help.
Book cover for "A small kindness"
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"It was like a game of tag, with one small act of kindness spreading throughout a small community of kids and teachers alike. Award-winning children's book author Stacy McAnulty packs a powerful punch with minimal text, providing a sweet message about all the small ways one can be kind. Illustrator Wendy Leach creates a diverse cast of characters while using color as a visual cue to how kindness is able to spread, even in a small community like a...
Book cover for "Home in a lunchbox"
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"When Jun moves from Hong Kong to America, the only words she knows are hello, thank you, I don't know, and toilet. Her new school feels foreign and terrifying. But when she opens her lunchbox to find her favorite meals--like bao, dumplings, and bok choy--she realizes home isn't so far away after all"--
Book cover for "Someone new"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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When three children are introduced to new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
Book cover for "My best friend's bangles"
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"Two friends experience jealousy for the first time when one of them is gifted a set of bangles from her mother"--
Book cover for "Rosa's song"
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4 stars
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"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
Book cover for "The together tree"
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"Rumi's family has moved to a new town and he is feeling lonely and left out at school because one of the other kids, Asher, is a bully--until Hans joins him, drawing in the dirt under the old willow tree."--
Book cover for "Tokyo night parade"
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1 stars
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"The night parade is about to begin . . . The ground thunders in Tokyo. A gust of wind blows. The pitter patter of paws and claws draws closer. The air is thick with swirling, swooping demons. It's Eka's favorite evening of the year, the one night she refuses to miss. But it's become harder to travel to Japan now that she's living across the world in New York. Unsure of when she can return next to see her yokai friends, Eka tries to forget that this...
Book cover for "Sister friend"
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"Ameena feels invisible. It's been that way since she started at her new school. But now there is another new girl in class. Ameena sees her brownness, her hijab, even though the other kids do not. Ameena wants to be her friend, but she can't seem to find the right words or do the right things. Until one day, they find them together: 'Assalamu Alaikum, Sister. Welcome'"--
Book cover for "The day you begin"
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Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.
Book cover for "Amy Wu and the warm welcome"
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Series:
Amy Wu volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Amy Wu would love to welcome the new student in her class, but Lin has just come from China and does not speak much English, so with the help of her family Amy tries to work out a way to bridge the language gap.