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Dinner Table Talks: The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage

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Jocelyn T.
Tuesday, October 12

Cover of I is for Immigrants featuring a multiracial family walking onto the shore, the Statue of Libery, a plane, boats, cars and bicycles

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iRead: Selina Alko

Book Cover of Before John Was a Jazz Giant | Image of a young John Coltrane holding a saxaphone

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iRead: Sean Qualls

Cover of Where Are You From? features a grandfather walking on a dirt path with his granddaughter on his shoulders. Fields of long, brown grass are on either side and birds fly into the sky. The granddaughter looks happy and has her arms outstretched and her grandfather smiles.

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Dinner Table Talks: Where Are You From?

Front cover of Julián Is a Mermaid | Young Afro-Latino boy stands on a sidewalk in front of a brick wall. His left hand is raised up and his right hand is on his hip. He is wearing a white skirt that looks like a mermaid's tail with a flowered headdress. He is bare-chested.

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Dinner Table Talks: Julián is a Mermaid & Julián at the Wedding

Teen girl getting assistance on laptop

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Best School Year Ever! Recommended Resources for Middle School

Third Grade reading workshop in the Education Studio

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Best School Year Ever! Recommended Resources for Elementary School

Image of a young basketball player in silhouette balancing a basketball on his finger. The Crossover is written on his body and he stands against a white background.

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Dinner Table Talks: The Crossover

Image of a young basketball player in silhouette balancing a basketball on his finger. The Crossover is written on his body and he stands against a white background.

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The Crossover: Sports Fiction

Two light-orange, three-story buildings stand before a light-purple sky. Muslim families happily stand at each of the windows.

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Dinner Table Talks: Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices

Black and Red Boat with an Asian man and Asian boy at the front of the ship. The ship is presented in front of a yellow background and a large, yellow sun.

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Dinner Table Talks: Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist

Black tween in a black jacket balances on a skateboard with stickers attached to the bottom. A unidentified person waves to him in the background, and a tween girl sits on the stairs leading into a neighborhood home.

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Dinner Table Talks: A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart

Cover of Stamped Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi

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Dinner Table Talks: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

Heather M.'s Recommended Books, Movies, & Music

Blended

Anna Hibiscus

Read All About It: Multiracial Families in Middle Grade Novels

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Antiracist Baby

The Talk

Let's Talk Race (as a Family...)

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Girls Like Us

Accused!

SC Young Adult Book Award Nominees 2021-2022

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

The Sun Is Also a Star

Color Outside the Lines

Celebrate Loving Day for Tweens & Teens

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Black is Brown is Tan

The Case for Loving

Celebrate Loving Day for Families

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

The Boy Who Grew a Forest

The Proudest Blue

SC Picture Book Award Nominees 2021-2022

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Black Brother, Black Brother

Things You Can't Say

SC Junior Book Award Nominees 2021-2022

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Mañanaland

Once Upon an Eid /.

SC Children's Book Award Nominees 2021-2022

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

When Sue Found Sue

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.

Read All About It: Dinosaurs & Fossils

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Stella Diaz Has Something to Say

Anna Hibiscus

Read All About It: Ramona & Friends

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

Stop Drop and Roll

Elmo Visits the Firehouse.

Read All About It: Fire Safety

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian

What Do Firefighters Do?

Fire Engine.

Read All About It: Firefighters & Fire Trucks

Curated by Heather M.

Children's Room Librarian