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1) Brown
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Celebrating all the beautiful browns in one child's colorful family
Mama's brown is chocolate, clear, dark, and sweet. Daddy's brown is autumn leaf, or like a field of wheat. Granny's brown is like honey, and Papa's like caramel. In this loving and lovely ode to the color brown, a boy describes the many beautiful hues of his family, including his own-gingerbread.
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Wonder meets Some Kind of Happiness in this powerful tween novel from Ali Standish, author of the Carnegie Medal nominee The Ethan I Was Before and August Isle.**
While her grandmother was alive, Emma’s world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma’s skin. Soon, she’s diagnosed with vitiligo—a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color—and the magic in her world...
3) Honeysmoke
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A young biracial girl searches for the perfect color word to describe herself.
4) Skin again
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Describes how skin is just a covering that can't tell the story of who a person is.
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"Meet Mia! Mia wakes up to see her disheveled hair 'Just-a-going every which-a-ways.' But instead of feeling like it is a bad thing, she looks in the mirror, spins around with joy and says, 'I'm a Pretty Little Black Girl!' Mia and her friends are pretty little Black girls of many different skin tones and hair textures. Love, good manners and lots of fun lead the way in their dreams of a future filled with accomplishments of brilliance!"--Jacket flap....
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