Diverse Book List

Praised for acting like a big girl when she is small, as a young girl grows, "big" becomes a word of criticism, until the girl realizes that she is fine just the way she is.

In interwoven narratives, a young girl and her mother support one another as one tries out for the baseball team and the other interviews for a bricklaying job, then celebrate their success together.

With percussive onomatopoeia pumping up the action, Flo drives the team to a burning house, and leads their response efforts.

Jane works as crane operator at the docks, but she faces her biggest challenge when hoisting a firetruck in high winds.

In rhyming text, Plumber Pearl fixes all the overflowing plumbing in an apartment building, but there is still water coming from somewhere.

A day in the life of an interracial mommy and baby.

Perfect for reading aloud with its rhyming, rhythmic text, this picture book finds two mommies sharing a perfect day with their little one, from visiting animals on a farm to bedtime snuggles.

Told in simple text, a young girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.

In this book you'll find empowering and motivating reminders that you can do anything as long as you believe in yourself.

When a stranger tells Aiko to "go back to your own country," her grnadmother tell her that Japanese people were once put in prison camps in the U.S.

Two girls--one from a city who lives with her mom, and one who lives by the beach with her dads and brother--come together at a lantern festival in a beautiful story of how we are all one, whether near or far, friend or newcomer.

The remarkable true story of the nation’s oldest student, who, at age 116, proved that you’re never too old to learn something new