Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

A new mother wants nothing but the best for her new daughter. She has traveled away from her
country and is now an immigrant in the United states. She’s in awe of this new world around
them, but unable to understand or speak to the new people. She feels a bit of uncertainty,
unsure of where she fits in. This was until they discovered the library. She looks through the
books and they come alive to her. She used the books to help her to understand the new world,
read, write, and speak. They are dreamers!

We Are Family by Patricia Hegarty

“Whoever we are whatever we do our families hold us together like glue.” Family is important
and everyone's family is different. Morning and daily routines are done differently but with family
by your side everything will be fine. This book is full of rhyming and illustrations of different
family dynamics. It shows families with mothers, fathers, grandparents, but one thing in common
is that they are all loved.
 Marvelous Maravilloso by Carrie Lara
“Colors make the world pretty, colors make the world interesting and beautiful. Without them
everything would look the same.” The story focuses on a young girl’s view on the colors of the
world. She first talks about nature and its colors but then dives into people's skin colors.
Everything has color whether it's people, nature, and animals. The young girl realizes that
without color the world would be a boring place.

Real Sisters Pretend by Megan Dowd Lambert

While two sisters play princess, they discuss what being sisters and family really means. They
talk about their adoption stories and what they know of what it means to a family to adopt
members.They also talk about how other people don't always understand how their questions
can make adoptive family members feel, especially when those strangers' questions try to make
the distinction between real sisters when they are really asking indirectly about biological
relations; in family everything is real, though there may be differences in biological vs. adoptive
relations.
 Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan
Rubina is a young girl who has just been invited to her first birthday party. She rushes home to
tell her Armi who insists that her younger sibling, Sana be invited as well. Runina tries to explain
how Sana wasn’t invited and she can not come. Armi won’t allow her to go unless her sister can
as well. This story shows how the differences of two cultures come together to bring sisters
closer when they learn to put aside their differences.