CRRL Kids: Stories About Far Away PlacesLike this list

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• The Coquíes Still Sing

  a Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding

  González, Karina Nicole

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  Co-quí, co-quí! The coquí frogs sing to Elena from her family's beloved mango tree--their calls so familiar that they might as well be singing, "You are home, you are safe." But home is suddenly not safe when a hurricane threatens to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Primo

  a Letter to My Cousin

  Tonatiuh, Duncan

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  Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, at heart the boys are very similar.

• Desert Girl, Monsoon Boy

  Dairman, Tara

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  Two families flee extreme weather in India and come together on a mountaintop.

• Finding François

  a Story About the Healing Power of Friendship

  Gordon, Gus, 1971-

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  Alice sends a message in a bottle that travels the River Seine and lands with François, who helps her heal from the loss of her beloved grandmother.

• Finding Papa

  Krans, Angela Pham

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  Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family.

• Granny's Kitchen

  Smith, Sadé

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  Shelly-Ann lives with her grandmother on the beautiful island of Jamaica, where the sun is always shining and the weather is sweet. One afternoon, Shelly-Ann becomes hungry, so she asks Granny for something to eat. Granny tells her, 'GYAL,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grandpa Across the Ocean

  Yum, Hyewon

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  When a little boy visits his grandfather on the other side of the ocean, everything is unfamiliar and boring until time together proves that Grandpa can be a lot of fun.

• I'll Go and Come Back

  LaRocca, Rajani

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  Jyoti is overwhelmed when she visits her grandmother in India for the first time, but she and Sita Pati quickly form a bond. When Pati visits Jyoti in America, it is Jyoti's turn to help her grandmother feel welcome.

• Lubna and Pebble

  Meddour, Wendy

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  Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does.

• Nana, Nenek & Nina

  Ferneyhough, Liza

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  Nina's visits to her two faraway grandmothers--one in Malaysia and one in England--unfold side-by-side, featuring similarities and differences between the two.

• A New Home

  De Regil, Tania

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  Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn't anything at all like your old home? In a shared voice, a boy moving from New York City to Mexico City and a girl moving from Mexico City to New York City express their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Malala's Magic Pencil

  Yousafzai, Malala, 1997-

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  As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for a magic pencil. She would use it to make everyone happy, to erase the smell of garbage from her city, to sleep an extra hour in the morning. But as she grew older, Malala saw that there were…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mommy's Hometown

  Lim, Hope

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  When a young boy and his mother travel to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined, until he visits the river where she used to play and sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain.

• The Patchwork Bike

  Clarke, Maxine Beneba

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  When you live at the edge of the no-go desert, you need to make your own fun. That's when you and your brothers get inventive and build a bike from scratch, using everyday items like an old milk pot (maybe Mum is using it, maybe not), a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Shoes

  English, Karen

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  Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk

  Sehgal, Kabir

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  In this twist on the classic song "The Wheels on the Bus," the wheels on the tuk tuk go round and round all over the city in India.