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List: Celebrate Pride
In our Mother's House
Three young children experience the joys and challenges of being raised by two mothers.
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And Tango Makes Three
Also available in Hoopla. At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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Jerome by Heart
A young boy expresses his love for his friend Jerome.
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Pinky and Rex and the Bully
Also available in RB Digital. Pinky learns the importance of identity as he defends his favorite color, pink, and his friendship with a girl, Rex, from the neighborhood bully.
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Freckleface Strawberry : Backpacks!
Freckleface Strawberry and Windy Pants Patrick make messes in their backpacks.
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The Accidental Adventures of India McAllister
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.
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A Boy Named Queen
Also available in Hoopla. Evelyn befriends Queen, the new boy in town, who does not seem to get fazed by bullies and lives by his own rules, and soon begins to learn new things about the world and herself.
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The Magic Misfits
Also available in Overdrive. "Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--
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Best Friend Next Door
Two girls who share a birthday and palindromic names struggle with respective parental challenges and loneliness while gradually overcoming their differences to become close friends.
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Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot : the Twelfth Epic Novel
Also available in Overdrive. George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
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Antonio
With Mother's Day coming, Antonio finds he has to decide about what is important to him when his classmates make fun of the unusual appearance of his mother's partner, Leslie.
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¡Mi Familia es de Otro Mundo! : Una Nueva Mirada Sobre los Modeles Familiares
A normal family used to be formed by a mother, father and children. However, it's a common situation when parents separate and form new families. Now it's also common: grandparents raising grandchildren, adoption, fertilization methods, two men or two women having children. This book tells the stories of different children dealing with their problems.
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The Cardboard Kingdom
Also available in Overdrive. Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who create costumes from cardboard and use their imagination in adventures with knights, robots, and monsters.
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Intersection Allies : We Make Room for All
Also available in Hoopla. A handy book about intersectionality that depicts the nuances of identity and embraces difference as a source of community.
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What was Stonewall?
How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the history of LGBTQ rights in this Who HQ title.
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It Feels Good to be Yourself : A Book About Gender Identity
A picture book that introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader from writer Theresa Thorn and illustrator Noah Grigni. Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither, or somewhere in between. This sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others. With child-friendly language and vibrant art, It Feels Good to Be Yourself provides young readers and parents alike with the vocabulary to discuss this important topic with sensitivity.
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The Great Big Book of Families
Features illustrations and descriptions of different types of families and how their lives are similar and different.
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Stonewall : A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution
From Rob Sanders, author of the acclaimed Pride- The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, comes this powerful and timeless true story that will allow young readers to discover the rich and dynamic history of the Stonewall Inn and its role in the gay civil rights movement--a movement that continues to this very day.
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Pride : the Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
Traces the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world.
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