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Diverse Voices NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2025 |
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At Our Table
by Patrick Hulse, illustrted by Madelyn Goodnight
Gratitude, togetherness, and tradition are shared and celebrated at the dining tables of a diverse range of families and communities. (Ages 3-9)
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Bhangra Baby
by Kabir Sehgal, illustrated by Ani Bushry
Bhangra Baby learns to step, hop, twist, and jump as he moves to the rhythm of the dhol. (Ages 0-3)
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Brave
by Weshoyot Alvitre
A Native American boy proudly grows out his hair, his dad braiding it each morning, and even though he is teased for the braid at school, he remembers stories of how his father and grandpa were forced to cut their hair. (Ages 6-9)
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Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz
Chooch Helped is a universal story of an older sibling learning to make space for a new child, told with grace by Andrea L. Rogers and stunning art from Rebecca Lee Kunz showing one Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions. (Ages 3-6)
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City Beet by Tziporah Cohen, illustrated by Udayana LugoVictoria and her neighbor, Mrs. Kosta, grow such a spectacular beet garden that they need the entire neighborhood's help to pull out a giant beet. (Ages 3-6)
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Happy Friendsgiving : A Thanksgiving Celebration of Found Families by Marcie Colleen, illustrated by Laura Sandoval HerreraThanksgiving gets a fresh and friendly new look in this heartwarming picture book that celebrates the joy of friendship and community--at a table where all are welcome. Capture the true essence of Thanksgiving through the lens of friendship and togetherness in this joyful and inclusive celebration of the holiday (Ages 3-9)
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The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by John PicacioA young girl examines fear and death and discovers bravery against the backdrop of Dia de Muertos. (Ages 6-12)
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The Last Tamale by Orlando MendiolaIt's the best day of the year: tamale day. Luis and his family have been making and eating [them] all day. ... When Luis, Jacob, and Letty all want the last tamale, there's only one way to choose a winner: a tamale battle! Round one: Dance Battle. Round Two: Lucha Libre Match. Round Three: Arm Wrestle with Abuelita ... (Ages 3-9)
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Lost and Found Hanukkah by Joy Preble, Illustrated by Lisa AnchinAs Hanukkah approaches, Nate is upset about losing his beloved menorah after his family's move, but when the local shop's cat, Kugel, goes missing, he discovers that, just like the Hanukkah story, everything can be set right again. (Ages 5-9)
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More than Enough : Inspired by Maimonides's Golden Ladder of Giving by Richard Michelson, illustrated by Joe CepedaMoses is reluctant to give money when Barefoot Benny asks for change, but Mom encourages him to help a neighbor, and throughout the year each neighbor finds an opportunity to help another, in a book modeling different stages of giving. Illustrated byJoe Cepeda. (Ages 3-9)
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Pilgrim Codex by Vivian Mansour Manzur, illustrated by Emmanuel Valtierra, translated by Carlos Rodriguez CortezThe Vargas Ramirez family journeys from the Land of the Frogs to The Place Where Feet Cry to the River Where the Waters Tangle, in a story about an immigrant family's journey north as seen through a child's eyes. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations (Ages 3-9).
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Popo the Xolo by Paloma Angelina Lopez, illustrated by Abraham MatiasNana transitions from life to death through the nine levels of Mictlān, accompanied by her beloved xoloitzcuintle, Popo. (Ages 3-9)
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The Story of Us
by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Kevin and Kristen Howdeshell
Inviting readers to experience the biblical redemption story in a whole new way, this gorgeous picture book encourages readers to think about their own relationship to nature and the Divine (Ages 3-12).
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This Table by Alex Killian, illustrated by Brooke SmartFor fans of Sophie Blackall's Farmhouse comes a gorgeous story of one table and the life that grows around it. This moving picture book traces a table and its transformation: from a seed to a tree to a treasured object in a home. With captivating text and lush illustrations, This Table will inspire conversations about the everyday, ordinary objects in our lives, and their role in creating lifelong memories. (Ages 3-9)
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Camila the Painting Star by Alicia Salazar, illustrated by Thais Damião After a classmate tells Camila that her paintings of her abuela are ugly, Camila is heartbroken. Will she quit painting for good? (Ages 6-9)
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The Island of Forgotten Gods
by Victor Piäneiro
Twelve-year-old Nico and his cousins' seemly boring summer in Puerto Rico takes a horrific turn when they encounter the legendary chupacabra, a cult, and the gods who created the island. (Ages 9-14)
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An Encantadora's Guide to Monstros and Magic by Sarah J. MendoncaRosa Coelho has spent her whole life hunting monstros, wandering the city streets with her best friend Tiago, and dreaming of a better life for herself and her grandmother. And in a society that favors the rich and educated, every piece of knowledge comes with a hefty price, even the most basic books Rosa's family needs to trap monstrous. So when the powerful Ministerio dos Monstros threatens her family's struggling Encantadora shop, Rosa only has two weeks to scrape together the money for their debts. It seems like an impossible task...until Rosa tricks her way onto an infamous thief crew as their magical safecracker. Thrust into the world of high class luxury and betrayal, Rosa is pulled into a scheme with the highest possible stakes: stealing from the Ministry itself. She must learn to trust her magical abilities and her crew--for if the heist goes wrong, everything she loves is forfeit. (Ages 9-14)
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Wolf Club
by James Bird
The Breakfast Club meets Hatchet in this middle-grade novel about three kids who ditch detention to search for an elusive white wolf, who may have the magical powers they need to face their challenges and heal their hearts. (Ages 9-12)
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Bite by Bite : American History through Feasts, Foods, and Side Dishes by Marc Aronson, illustrated by Trent D. ChambersShowcasing twelve dishes that take readers from thousands of years ago through today, this deliciously fascinating exploration of the diverse peoples and foodways that make up the U.S. is the true story of the many Americas -- laid out bite by bite. (Ages 6-12)
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Wish I Was a Baller : a Graphic Memoir by Amar Shah, art by Rashad DouceyRead about Amar Shah, a 14-year-old aspiring sports journalist and basketball superfan. This graphic memoir chronicles Amar's real-life experiences covering the golden era of the NBA when he befriended Shaq and hung out with Michael Jordan. (Ages 9-14)
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You Were Made for this World : Celebrated Indigenous Voices Speak to Young People Edited by Stephanie Sinclair and Sara SinclairThis joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection of letters and art for young people brings together celebrated Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island. Every young person deserves the chance to feel like they belong, Forty Indigenous writers, artists, activists, athletes, scholars and thinkers come togehter for a joint purpose: to celebrate the potential of young people, to share a sense of joy and pride in language, traditional and personal stories and teachings, and shared experiences, and to honor young people for who they are and what they dream of. This beautifully collaborative collection urges readers to think about who they are, where they come from and where they're going, with a warm familiarity that will inspire you to see yourself and your community with proud eyes. (Ages 6-14)
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The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. AncrumHollis Brown feels trapped in his struggling small town but then meets Walt, a spirit adrift for generations, who takes over Hollis' body and mind. Walt and Hollis start to work together and an unspeakable bond grows between them.
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A Crane Among Wolves
by June Hur
To save her sister, a teen girl becomes entangled in a political conspiracy with an enigmatic prince in this fiery new YA from the bestselling author of The Red Palace.
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Legendary Frybread Drive-in : Intertribal Stories
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world's best frybread.
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The Summer I Ate the Rich
by Maika Moulite
Seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie Brielle seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain.
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They Thought They Buried Us by NoNieqa RamosSixteen-year-old Yuiza, a proud queer Boricua who loves to make horror movies, finds themself living in one when they are sent to an elite boarding school that holds sinister secrets
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Bad Boy : a Graphic Novel by Guy A. Sims, art by Dawud Anyabwile and Mahkeda KellmanWalter Dean Myers's childhood memories of growing up in Harlem in the 1940s and '50s.
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Don't Sleep with the Dead
by Nghi Vo
Nick Carraway, paper soldier and novelist, has found a life and a living watching the mad magical spectacle of New York high society in the late thirties. He's good at watching, and he's even better at pretending: pretending to be straight, pretending to be human, pretending he's forgotten the events of that summer in 1922. On the eve of the second World War, however, Nick learns that someone's been watching him pretend and that memory goes both ways. When he sees a familiar face one very dark night, it quickly becomes clear that dead or not, damned or not, Jay Gatsby isn't done with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home.
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Old School Indian : a Novel
by Aaron John Curtis
A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.
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Optional Practical Training : a Novel
by Shubha Sunder
For work experience after her physics degree, young Indian woman Pavitra takes a position teaching at a private high school near Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as each person she encounters talks to and at her, they shape her understanding of race, immigration, privilege and herself.
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To Save the Man : a Novel
by John Sayles
At the Carlisle Indian School in 1890, young Native students are forced to abandon their culture under the brutal hand of Captain Pratt, while whispers of the ghost dance spread across the Plains, offering a glimmer of hope and rebellion against the inevitable bloodshed looming on the horizon.
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Everything Must Go : the Stories We Tell About the End of the World
by Dorian Lynskey
This darkly humorous cultural history explores the evolution of apocalyptic thought, examining how literature and film reflect societal anxieties, science and politics, tracing the secularization of doomsday predictions from the 19th century to today's climate crisis and technological fears.
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Gaza : the Poem Said Its Piece
by Nasser Rabah
Born in Gaza in 1963, Rabah spent some of his formative years in Egypt, before returning to Gaza in his early twenties, where he has lived ever since. There, among the generations who built its neighborhoods and populate its villages, in a place of great natural beauty and vibrant cities, living under constant surveillance, military occupation, blockade, siege and regular attack, in a culture steeped in literary and spiritual tradition, Rabah developed his distinctively singular vision and poetics. This is Rabah's first book in English translation. The poems include a selection from three of his published collections, along with new poems written after October 2023, during the full-scale Israeli assault on Gaza. This is a bi-lingual edition and includes the original versions in Arabic.
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Have You Eaten Yet? : Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
by Cheuk Kwan
Weaves a global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, laborers, and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens worldwide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many of these communities: how Chinese immigrants have resisted--or have often been prevented from--complete assimilation into the social fabric of their new homes.
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My Black Country : a Journey through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
by Alice Randall
The first black woman to co-write a #1 country hit, Trisha Yearwood's“XXX's and OOO's,” offers a lyrical, introspective and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of black country music, in this celebration of the radical joy in realizing the power of black influence on American culture.
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One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful
Woman : A Mother's Story
by Abi Maxwell
Following one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, this heartbreaking, unputdownable memoir finds the author contending with the rural America where she was raised and, years later, where she is now raising her trans child caught in the riptide of our nation's culture wars.
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Washita Love Child : the Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
by Douglas K. Miller
.A multitalented musician who paired bright flourishes with soulful melodies, Jesse Ed Davis transformed our idea of what rock music could be and, crucially, who could make it. At a time when few other Indigenous artists appeared on concert stages, radio waves, or record store walls, in a century often depicted as a period of decline for Native Americans, Davis and his Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, Seminole, and Muskoke relatives demonstrated new possibilities for Native people. With a foreword by former poet laureate Joy Harjo, who collaborated with Davis near the end of his life, Washita Love Child thoroughly and finally restores the "red dirt boogie brother" to his rightful place in rock history, cementing his legacy for generations to come.
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We the Pizza : Slangin' Pies + Savin' Lives
by Muhammad Abdul-Hadi
Showcases the mission-driven approach of Down North Pizza, with recipes for a variety of square-cut pizzas, including vegetarian options and popular meat varieties, as well as wings and shakes, all presented with colorful photography that highlights both the food and the journey of the team of formerly incarcerated staff members behind it.
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System
9601 Capital Lane
Largo, Maryland 20774
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