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Mexique: A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War
by María José Ferrada (Author), Ana Penyas (Illustrator), and Elisa Amado (Translator)
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Booktalk: On May 27, 1937, over four hundred children sailed for Morelia, Mexico, fleeing the violence of the Spanish Civil War. Home was no longer safe, and Mexico was welcoming refugees by the thousands. Each child packed a suitcase and boarded the Mexique, expecting to return home in a few months. This was just a short trip, an extra-long summer vacation, they thought. But the war did not end in a few months, and the children stayed, waiting and wondering, in Mexico.

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War is a very loud noise.
War is a huge hand that shakes you
and throws you on a ship.

Splash! Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change
by Elisa Boxer (Author) and Elizabeth Baddeley (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Ethelda Bleibtrey was a girl with guts who loved the water. As a child with polio in the early 1900s, swimming set her free. The water released her from her pain and helped her build strong muscle–and a powerful spirit. From then on, from the New York beaches to the choppy waters of the 1920 Olympics to the Central Park Reservoir, Ethelda made a splash wherever she went. For Ethelda, doing the right thing sometimes came with a price–change often does–but Ethelda helped make the world better than how she found it. Splash!

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