Category: chapter book

Louis Helps Ajani Fight Racism (Helper Hounds)
by Caryn Rivadeneira (Author) and Priscilla Alpaugh (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Ajani loves having a dad from Denmark and a mom from Jamaica. Ajani speaks three languages and gets to spend summers with his grandparents in the coolest places. But when a classmate overhears dark-skinned Ajani speaking Danish, the boy makes a hurtful, racist comment. Ajani is crushed. Until a chance encounter with Louis the Helper Hound helps Ajani feel proud of his heritage and helps him and his classmates fight racism.

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Anna Hibiscus
by Atinuke (Author) and Lauren Tobia (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa, with her mother and father, her twin baby brothers (Double and Trouble), and lots of extended family in a big white house with a beautiful garden in a compound in a city. Anna is never lonely–there are always cousins to play and fight with, aunties and uncles laughing and shouting, and parents and grandparents close by. Each chapter in this early chapter book tells a different story as Anna Hibiscus goes on a seaside vacation, helps plan a party for Auntie Comfort from Canada (will she remember her Nigerian ways?), learns firsthand what it’s really like to be a child selling oranges outside the gate, and longs to see sweet snow.

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