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Maillard, K. N. (2019, October 22). Fry Bread. Roaring Brook Press. 48 pages. Tr $11.63. ISBN 1626727465. 

Pura Belpre Award and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal brilliantly illustrated Fry Bread, a modern Native American family story. This tale was touching as a grandmother told her grandchild about tradition and culture while making a fry bread recipe. 

Johnson, D. (2022, January 1). H Is for Harlem. Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette.48 pages. Tr $14.69. ISBN 0316322377. 

Harlem luminaries have shaped American culture for years. This spectacular celebration of Harlem as a center of African American history and a lively neighborhood that continues to affect our world brings its museums, performance places, community centers, and more to life. H Is for Harlem is a love letter and alphabetical archive on past and present neighborhoods and traditions.

Yang, K. (2022, May 3). Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country. Penguin. 40 Pages. Tr $11.32. ISBN 0593463056. 

The strength of Asian Americans across the country and in all kinds of areas is shown in this book. Each page has art by a different well-known Asian American or Asian artist. Along with the poetic main text, Yes We Will has short biographies of the person or event in history that is shown on the page, with longer bios at the end. 

Weatherford, C. B. (2021, February 2). Unspeakable. Carolrhoda Books ®. 32 pages. ISBN 1541581202.

The Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, is brought to life by the famous author Carole Boston Weatherford and the Illustrator Floyd Cooper. The book tells the story of African Americans who lived in Tulsa's Greenwood area and how terrible it was when a white mob attacked the Black community in 1921. What happened was mostly kept from the public, and there was no government investigation for seventy-five years. This picture book gently introduces kids to this terrible event and ends with a call for a better future.An essential but difficult book to read in order to expose senseless acts of violence committed against black people.

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