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Books featuring BIPOC characters where ethnicity, race, and/or culture are an explicit focus of the story.

Where Wonder Grows

A grandmother-led celebration of land, elemental knowledge, and intergenerational wonder rooted in Indigenous and Mexican traditions.

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Lubna and Pebble

Wendy Meddour

Daniel Egnéus

A refugee child finds comfort and friendship in a pebble she treasures until another child needs hope even more.

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The Coquies Still Sing

Karina Nicole Gonzalez

Krystal Quiles

A hurricane-centered Puerto Rican community story that honors fear, care, and collective rebuilding without flattening the culture.

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The Arabic Quilt

Aya Khalil

Anait Semirdzhyan

An immigrant story about language, school, and an Arab girl who turns exclusion into shared creativity.

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My Papi Has a Motorcycle

Isabel Quintero

Zeke Pena

A loving neighborhood ride that captures labor, pride, family affection, and change in a working-class Latino community.

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Saturday

Oge Mora

A mother and daughter face a string of small disappointments and rebuild their special day with love and flexibility.

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Vamos! Let's Go to the Market

Raul the Third

A bustling, bilingual market adventure full of signs, sounds, jokes, and affectionate neighborhood detail.

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Sulwe

Lupita Nyong'o

Vashti Harrison

A Black girl grapples with colorism and self-worth in a visually rich story about learning to love her dark skin.

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Alma and How She Got Her Name

Juana Martinez-Neal

A warm family story that turns one girl's long name into a joyful exploration of ancestry, memory, and identity.

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Your Name Is a Song

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Luisa Uribe

A child upset by the mispronunciation of names learns to hear names as music and to insist on being known correctly.

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