Alamosa Public Library

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.

"A tickle plus a snuggle makes for a tuggle while a snickle and a higgle gets you a sniggle....[This] board book takes the reader on an engaging romp through repeated rhyming sounds landing right back at the best feeling ever—a snuggle with someone you love." --publisher's website

"People as far back as anyone's known / Have gathered to give thanks for food we have grown. Celebrate the harvest season in 12 cultures!" --back cover

"The book debunks stereotypes and shows how California's Great Central Valley intertwines a vanishing Old West and an emerging New West to create America's True West, a country of 21st-century rural and small-town Westerners of many races and ethnicities who often feel ignored or looked down on, several with ties to Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas, but all shaped as was Bergon by California's Great Valley"--Provided...

"This young narrator is many things. A daughter and a granddaughter. Selfish and generous. Mean and kind. American and Indian. With heart, humor, and tenderness, Divya Srinivasan shows us the complexity of all that we are, and all that we can be. After all, each of us is so much more than any one thing."--book jacket.

"Lila is trying to find her way in the world―to figure out her thing. Her talented sister, Parisa, and athletic best friend, Melanie, both seem to have found theirs... and Lila can't help feeling left behind. But just when she thinks she might have it in her school's new band program, the floor falls out from beneath Lila. The program may have its funding cut! Lila visits her local bank in an attempt to secure a loan for the band program. While...

"To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken." --container.

Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names.

"There is always singing in Lola’s house. Sammy Davis Jr. in the morning, Dean Martin in the afternoon, and all throughout the evening, old Tagalog love songs from Nora Aunor, Basil Valdez, and more. Lola always says: 'If you want to hold on, you gotta sing your songs.' Her granddaughter tucks these sounds and Lola’s wisdom deep within her heart. And when Lola starts slipping into silence and stillness, she helps Lola hold on, piece by piece,...