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All the flights at the Seattle airport are delayed due to the bad weather so Trevor and his family are stranded! While concerned about their flight delay, Trevor's family worries how he will be affected by the crowds of people and noise in the airport. Will Trevor's autism cause him to become agitated and cause a scene? Find out what Trevor uses to entertain and soothe the crowd.

Families come in all forms and sizes. Who is in your family? Let's share and celebrate what makes each family special!

As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.

Welcome to Different Like Us!, the book that explores how being different helps shape our world. Sharing the stories of more than 40 children from across the globe, this book celebrates their strength and joys, without shying away from the tough stuff that's part of the package. Reading their...

From the author of the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling novel Pax comes a gorgeous and moving middle grade novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere. Ware can’t wait to spend summer “off in his own world”—dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and...

Pink, pink, pink. More than anything, Pinkaclious loves pink. Enjoy this audio collection filled with stories about your favorite pink-loving character, Pinkalicious. This audio collection includes: Pinkalicious Purplicious Goldilicious Silverlicious And the Princess of Pink Treasury...

Donny is desperate to learn how to breathe fire, but he just doesn’t have the spark! While his friends are shooting flames everywhere, Donny can only breathe water. He wishes he was special like them, until the day he encounters a problem that only he can help with …

Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge.

In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Too Bright to See, a sixth-grader's life is turned upside down when she learns her dad is trans Annabelle Blake fully expects this school year to be the same as every other: same teachers, same classmates, same...

As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.

Jessica loves spending Passover with her grandparents. But this year, Grandpa is sick and can't lead the seder like he always does. Jessica knows Passover won't be the same. But maybe she can find a way to include Grandpa in the seder - and make the holiday as joyful as ever.

On Sunday night, April lies in bed, trying to sleep. She is excited. On Friday she and her mother will take a train to her grandmother’s house. Almost a week is such a long time for a little girl to wait. But as April takes a bus ride, goes to the market, visits her father at work, and eats lunch at a diner, the days slip by. Everywhere she goes, there are people who are different sizes and shapes, and have different needs. At last it’s Friday; April and her mom are on their way. At her grandmother’s, April will see lots of flowers, each one as different as the people she has seen during the week.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced. Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she's also quite different...

Mai, a young Hmong girl, and Kiara, a young Black girl, are best friends. They do everything together—riding the bus, eating lunch, playing at recess. But one day Kiara misses school and Mai goes looking for answers. When she learns that her best friend is protesting an act of police violence against the Black community, Mai decides to join the protest too. Her parents at first want to protect her by keeping her at home, but she shows them that standing together makes all of us stronger.

"Et souviens-toi : ne t'approche pas de Serpy. Il est différent de nous." La mère surveille anxieusement Moinelle lorsqu'elle quitte la maison pour aller à l'école. Moinelle est déçue par maman. Serpy est son meilleur ami et elle est contrariée quand maman dit que "les moineaux et les serpents ne peuvent pas être amis". Mais ni Moinelle ni Serpy ne laisseront leurs parents fermés d'esprit faire obstacle à leur amitié. Ils leur montreront que l'on peut être ami avec n'importe qui ! Peu importe où ils se trouvent dans la chaîne alimentaire.

A #1 New York Times bestseller! Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and award-winning artist Rafael Lopez create a kind and caring book about the differences that make each of us unique. Feeling different, especially as a kid, can be tough. But in the same way that different types of plants...

Includes the following five Todd Parr titles: The Okay Book, It's Okay to be Different, The Feelings Book, The Feel Good Book, Things That Make You Feel...

This New York Times bestseller from Victoria and Elizabeth Kann celebrates all things pink while showing readers that being yourself is the best of all. Pinkalicious loves all things pink. From fairy dresses to cotton candy to bubblegum. Most importantly she loves eating pink cupcakes. Mommy and...

A magical re-telling of one of the most-beloved fairy tales, which no child’s library should be without! The Little Mermaid is curious to see the world above the water, but it’s forbidden. One day, when nobody is is looking, she slips above the waves and falls in love with a prince. Longing to see him again, she asks the Sea Witch to help her become human. But, for Sea Witch’s spell to work, the Little Mermaid must make a difficult choice. Will she ever see the prince again?

BOT, from Children's author David Walliams. Meet Bot. The clumsiest little robot in the world. While all the Professor's other robots do important jobs around the castle, Bot just causes chaos. But might Bot turn out to have the most important job of all?...