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TCL Recommended Reads
  • July Feature: Beach Reads
    • Beach hair
    • Beach pug
    • Jonny Lambert's Bear and Bird explore the seashore
    • Beach bummer
    • There's a beach in my bedroom
    • The princess and the pup
    • Sejal Sinha swims with sea dragons
    • Billie and Bean at the beach
    • ¡Día de playa!
    • Whale song of Puffin Cliff
    • Vampire vacation
    • Look what I found at the beach
    • Mia Mayhem rides the waves
    • The big beach cleanup
    • Today is a beach day!
  • July Feature: Summer Camp Stories
    • Kitty camp
    • Written in the stars
    • Summer at Squee
    • The secret language of birds
    • Welcome to Camp Croak!
    • The quacken
    • Camp Sylvania
    • The firefly summer
    • Baby-sitters' summer vacation
    • In the key of us
    • Summer at Meadow Wood
    • Camp Scare
    • Henry Heckelbeck camping expert
    • Click. 2, Camp
    • Campingland
  • AANHPI Heroes
    • A is for Asian American
    • The ABCs of Asian American History
    • Shining A Light Celebrating 40 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who Changed the World
    • Everything Sad is Untrue
    • Awesome Asian Americans
    • Asian American Women in Science
    • The Delano Grape Strike
    • Fighting to Belong Volume 1
    • Yes We Will
    • Made in Asian America
    • Amazing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who Inspire us All
    • We Are Here
    • Homeland My Father Dream of Palestine
    • Kapaemahu
    • Cannonball
  • All About Fathers
    • I love my daddy
    • Giddy up, unicorn!
    • Forever and always
    • Rebel Girls dads and daughters : 25 tales of teamwork and fun
    • Daddy and me
    • Daddy's hugs and snuggles
    • Dad and Daddy's big big family
    • Daddy dressed me
    • Daddy speaks love
    • Together we ride
    • Diggers love their daddies!
    • Happy Father's Day from the Crayons
    • Dads can do it all!
    • Some daddies
    • That's my daddy!
  • All About Mothers
    • Bebé ama a mamá = baby loves mom
    • For you, I will
    • Moms can do it all!
    • Mommy time
    • Mama's home
    • All moms
    • Me and my mama
    • Mama hug
    • Do mommies ever sleep?
    • Mommy's kisses and cuddles
    • Mama and Mommy and me in the middle
    • Leo loves Mommy
    • You be Mommy
    • Mama's panza
    • My mom
  • Autism Acceptance
    • Bitsy bat, school star
    • Charlie makes a splash!
    • Frankie's world
    • The many mysteries of the Finkel family
    • A kind of spark
    • Harriet hound
    • My friend Julia : a Sesame Street book about autism
    • Good Different
    • A day with no words
    • The trouble with robots
    • Remarkable Remy
    • My Brain Is Magic : A Sensory-Seeking Celebration
    • Henry, Like Always
    • Wiggles, stomps, and squeezes : calming my jitters at school
    • The extraordinary adventures of Alice Tonks
  • Black History
    • ABC Black History and Me
    • Mae Makes a Way
    • Black Tech
    • The Little Rock Nine Challenge Segregation
    • What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
    • Unlawful Orders
    • Free At Last A Juneteenth Poem
    • Opal Lee
    • Black Men in Science
    • Small Shoes, Great Strides
    • To Boldly Go How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights
    • A Song Unsung
    • The Juneteenth Story
    • Black Jack
    • Young, Gifted and Black, Too
  • Black Joy
    • The Okay With and the Hungry Shadow
    • Parker Dresses Up
    • Magic Trash
    • Shuri the Vanished
    • Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
    • Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
    • Happy Hair
    • My Rainbow
    • Baby Young, Gifted, and Black
    • Ty's Travels: Beach Day!
    • The Why Files: Exploring Flight!
    • Leo Loves Daddy
    • The Last Mirror on the Left
    • Operation Sisterhood
    • Roar of the Beast
    • The swag is in the socks
    • Kicks
    • Black is a rainbow color
    • Black : the many wonders of my world
    • Wildseed witch
  • Can You Survive?
    • Small Spaces
    • Survival scout. Tsunami
    • I survived the black death, 1348
    • Can you survive a World War II escape? : an interactive history adventure
    • The attack on Pearl Harbor : can you stop the assault?
    • Ocean survival guide
    • Can you survive the wonderful Wizard of Oz? : a choose your path book
    • Sister from the multiverse
    • Cora and the Terrible Twister : A Tri-State Tornado Survival Story : Girls survive
    • Shipwreck
    • Facing tragedy on the Titanic : an interactive look at history
    • Spy School Goes Wild
    • Min and the protests : a Tiananmen square survival story
    • Claudia in the storm : a Hurricane Katrina survival story
    • Alone
  • Celebrating Women!
    • Dolores Huerta
    • The Heartbeat Drum: The Story of Carol Powder, Cree Drummer and Activist
    • Dazzling Zelda: The Story of Fashion Designer Zelda Wynn Valdes
    • Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Azbug
    • Maya Moore
    • How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice
    • Introducing Sandwina: the Strongest Woman in the World!
    • Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman Architect
    • Hokusai's Daughter: A Young Artist in Old Japan
    • The One and Only Googoosh: Iran's Beloved Superstar
    • Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Who Blazed a Trail
    • A Line Can Go Anywhere: the Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa
    • And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison's Life in Stories
    • Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children's Music
    • Magic in a drop of water : how Ruth Patrick taught the world about water pollution
  • Color Our World!
    • My block looks like
    • Project park art
    • The spectacular science of art
    • Malola's museum adventures : career day
    • Miss Edmonia's class of wildfires
    • Camila the painting star
    • Mildred the gallery cat
    • Whirligigs : the wondrous windmills of Vollis Simpson's imagination
    • Luna loves art
    • Time to make art
    • Goodnight, starry night : bedtime poems inspired by works of art
    • Pig makes art
    • Cultivando a un artista : la historia de un jardinero paisajista y su hijo
    • Scrap metal swan : a river clean-up story
    • Nature is an artist
  • Deaf Protagonists
    • Mara Hears in Style
    • Show Me a Sign
    • Song for a Whale
    • Camping Fun
    • Come Over to My House
    • Listening to the Quiet
    • Next Door
    • Sound Switch Wonder
    • Can Bears Ski?
    • Listen : how Evelyn Glennie, a deaf girl, changed percussion
    • Soon, Your Hands
    • Dancing hands : a story of friendship in Filipino sign language
    • Boogie Bass, Sign Language Star
    • Signs of Friendship
    • All He Knew
  • Ghostly Middle Grade Reads
    • The girl and the ghost
    • The curse on Spectacle Key
    • The ghosts of Bitterfly Bay
    • Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
    • The International House of Dereliction
    • Brick dust and bones
    • Ophie's Ghosts
    • The Bellwoods Game
    • The curse of the dead man's diamond
    • Conjure Island
    • Hart and souls
    • Ghosts, toast, and other hazards
    • The midnighters
    • A strange thing happened in Cherry Hall
    • What stays buried
  • Girly Graphic Novels
    • Katie the catsitter. 1
    • PAWS. 1, Gabby gets it together
    • We are big time
    • Just roll with it
    • Anzu and the realm of darkness
    • Meesh the bad demon. 1
    • Blood City rollers. 1
    • The Brinkley yearbooks. 1, Picture day
    • Blue stars. Mission 1, The vice principal problem
    • Growing pangs. 1
    • Shirley and Jamila save their summer
    • Knots
    • Hoops
    • Chickenpox
    • Remarkably Ruby
  • Indigenous Heroes
    • Sharice's Big Voice
    • Maria Tallchief
    • Who were the navajo code talkers
    • Classified
    • Finding My Dance
    • Deb Haaland
    • Sacagawea
    • The heartbeat drum : the story of Carol Powder, Cree drummer and activist
    • Matoaka : the true story of Pocahontas
    • Bertha Parker : the first indigenous woman archeologist
    • Wild at heart : the story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, defenders of nature
    • Wilma Mankiller
    • Native Americans in history : a history book for kids
    • Navajo code talkers
    • Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
  • Jewish American Heritage
    • The babka sisters
    • Coming of age : 13 b'nai mitzvah stories
    • The secret recipe
    • Space Torah : astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman's cosmic mitzvah
    • I share my name
    • The midnight mitzvah
    • Tía Fortuna's new home
    • Beni's tiny tales : around the year in Jewish holidays
    • Mr. Katz and me
    • Challah for Shabbat tonight
    • The see-you-soon spice box
    • Challah, challah, for you and me
    • Joyful song : a naming story
    • Bring back the babka!
    • The color of sound
  • Lunar New Year
    • Chloe's Lunar New Year
    • The Lunar New Year Surprise
    • PJ Masks Save Lunar New Year
    • Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade
    • Tomorrow is New Year's Day
    • Baby Loves Lunar Phases on Chinese New Year
    • Grumpy New Year
    • A Sweet New Year for Ren
    • Two New Years
    • Tray of Togetherness
    • Boys don't fry
    • Lunar New Year
    • We are lion dancers
    • Lunar New Year : a celebration of family and fun
    • Two New Years
    • Lunar tale : a New Year's adventure
  • Rainbow Reads
    • ABC Pride
    • Uncle Bobby's Wedding
    • Kind Like Marsha
    • The Insiders
    • Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
    • This is our Rainbow
    • Family is Family
    • The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
    • A Kids Book about Gender
    • Lunar Boy
    • The Real Riley Mayes
    • In the key of us
    • Crushing it
    • Hazel Bly and the deep blue sea
    • The Dog Knight