LEAMOS Resources

EC-2nd Grade

• In My Family/En Mi Familia (Family Pictures) by Carmen Lomas Garza
• Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People/Poeta del Pueblo by Monica Brown
• Abuelita Full of Life/Abuelita Llena de Vida by Amy Costales
• Marta, Big and Small by Jen Arena
• Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin/Dear Primo: Una Carta Para Ti by Duncan Tonatiuh

3rd-6th Grade

• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States by Lori Carlson
• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Diego Rivera, His World and Ours/ Diego Rivera: Su Mundo Y El Nuestro by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Somos Como las Nubes/We Are Like the Clouds by Jorge Argueta

Middle School

• Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States by Lori Carlson
• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns: a Mesoamerican Creation Myth/Serpiente Emplumada y los Cinco Soles: Un Mito Mesoamericano  by Duncan Tonatiuh

High School

• The Distance Between Us/La Distancia Entre Nosotros by Reyna Grande
• Yo No Soy Tu Perfecta Hija Mexicana / I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez 

EC-2nd Grade

• Samira’s Eid by Nnasreen Aktar (English and Arabic)
• Mirror by Jeannie Baker
• The Day Saida Arrived by Susana Gómez Redondo
• Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes by Hena Khan
• How Many Donkeys?: An Arabic Counting Tale by Margaret Read MacDonald and Nadia Jameel Taibah 

3rd-6th Grade

• Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by DK Publishing
• The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story by Aya Khalil
• Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

Middle School/High School

• Arabic Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Middle Eastern Tales In Arabic and English by Hezi Brosh
• Arabic-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary by DK Publishing
• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

EC-2nd Grade

• Vietnam ABCs: A Book About the People and Places of Vietnam  by Theresa Alberti
• Am I small? Có phải tôi nhỏ bé?: Children's Picture Book English-Vietnamese by Philipp Winterberg
• A Different Pond by Bao Phi
• Wishes by Muon Thi Van

3rd-6th Grade

• The Biscuit Moon by Jesus Gaban
• Happy After All by Anneke Forzani

Middle School

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
• Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai
• House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russell

High School

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir Paperback by Thi Bui
• A Pho Love Story by Loan Le
• Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao 

EC-2nd Grade

• Eau-Water, Short Stories For Beginners by Miley Smiley
• What Am I?/ Qu’est - Ce Que C’est? by Alain Crozon, Aurelie Lanchais
• Songs in the Shade of the Flamboyant Tree: French Creole Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes by Chantal Grosléziat and Paul. Mindy

3rd-6th Grade

• Little Sap and Monsieur Rodin by Michelle Lord and Felicia Hoshino

Middle/High School

• Contes de Charles Perrault. Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. by Svetlana Bagdasaryan
• Short Stories in French edited by Richard Coward
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi

EC-2nd Grade

• I See the Sun in Nepal by Dedie King
• Who Are We?/ हामी को हौं?  (Nepali-English) by Anneke Forzani
• My First Nepali Words for Communication Picture Book by Shirisha
• Little Sid by Ian Lendler and Xanthe Bouma

3rd-6th Grade

• Dashain Aayo! Tihar Aayo! A Nepali Festival Celebration by Anita Adhikary
• The Dance of the Caterpillars (Bilingual Nepali/English) by Adele Marie Crouch

Middle/High School

• Sold by Patricia McCormick
• Where Hummingbirds Come From Bilingual Nepali English by Adele Marie Crouch
• Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay
• The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal by Dena Moes

EC-2nd Grade

• Guru Nanak: First of the Sikhs by Demi
• Malala Yousafzai by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara
• Teatime Around the World by Denyse Waissbluth

3rd-6th Grade

• Roots and Wings: How Shahzia Sikander Became an Artist
• Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi
• Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
• A Long Pitch Home by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

Middle School

• First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins
• More to the Story by Hena Khan

High School

• Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
• If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar
• Mariam Sharma Hits the Road by Sheba Karim
• All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir

EC-2nd Grade

• Who Lives in the Wood?/ Хто живе y лісі?: An Illustrated Ukrainian-English Bilingual Story for Kids by Chatty Parrot
• Я Люблю Читати – Ukrainian Reading for Kids by Chatty Parrot
• English-Ukrainian School Children’s Bilingual Picture Dictionary by Richard Carlson, Jr.
• Sirko: The Ukrainian folktale in English and Ukrainian by Olha Tkachenko
• Tutti, the One and Only: Ukrainian Edition by Anastasia Goldak

3rd-6th Grade

• The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine by Mykola Matwijczuk
• Cousins Forever - Кузини Назавжди: A Bilingual Book for Kids Learning Ukrainian by Elisavet Arkolaki

Middle School

• Feathers of Hope: A Young Adult Fantasy by J.A. Culican

High School

• You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska

EC-2nd Grade

• The Boy At the Back of the Class by Onjali Rauf
• Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud
• Breathing Makes it Better by Christopher Willard and Wendy O'Leary
• Big Feelings by Alexandra Penfold
• After the Fall by Dan Santat

3rd-6th Grade

• The Crane Girl by Curtis Manley
• She Was The First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown
• Lend A Hand: Poems About Giving by John Frank
• The Three Lucys by Hayan Charara

Middle School

• Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and The Village Bank by Paula Yoo
• Blessing’s Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson

High School

• Self-Concept by Saul McLeod
• Stress for Success by Alison Pearce Stevens
• Bird by Zetta Elliott

EC-2nd Grade

• We Came to America by Faith Ringgold
• A Country Far Away by Nigel Gray
• Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border by Sara Palacios

3rd-6th Grade

• Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatium
• Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff by James Gulliver Hancock
• What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau
• My Diary from Here to There by Amada Irma Pérez

Middle School

• Chess Rumble by G. Neri
• Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood by EdNah New Rider Weber
• Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe García McCall
• Hammer of Witches by Shana Mlawski
• Drift by M.K. Hutchins

High School

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
• Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess
• The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Lieu

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