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Books That Speak To Me: Elementary: Who I AM

Introduction

Books in the Who I Am category focus on what makes you unique. These books celebrate culture, race, gender, physical, and mental features.

Picture Books

I Am Me by Susan Verde; Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781419746482
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho; Dung Ho (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780063057753
Publication Date: 2022-02-15
Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
ISBN: 9781943147724
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes; Gordon C. James (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525518778
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad; Hatem Aly (Illustrator); S. K. Ali (As told to)
ISBN: 0316519006
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard; Juana Martinez-Neal (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1626727465
Publication Date: 2019-10-22
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero; Zeke Peña (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525553410
Publication Date: 2019-05-14
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold; Suzanne Kaufman (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525579649
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson; Rafael López (Illustrator); Rafael López (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780399246531
Publication Date: 2018-08-28
Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763690458
Publication Date: 2018-04-23
Thunder Boy Jr by Sherman Alexie; Yuyi Morales (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0316013722
Publication Date: 2016-05-10
Red by Michael Hall (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062252074
Publication Date: 2015-02-03

Chapter Books/Graphic Novels

Enlighten Me (a Graphic Novel) by Minh Lê; Chan Chau (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780759555488
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
ISBN: 9781534488335
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Melissa (previously Published As GEORGE) by Alex Gino
ISBN: 9781338843408
Publication Date: 2022-05-17
Miss Quinces: a Graphic Novel by Kat Fajardo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781338535587
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
ISBN: 9780062747815
Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Class Act by Jerry Craft (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062885517
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) by Kwame Alexander; Dawud Anyabwile (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781328575494
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis; Traci Sorell
ISBN: 9781620148396
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Stella díaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250294104
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
The Witch Boy: a Graphic Novel (the Witch Boy Trilogy #1) by Molly Knox Ostertag
ISBN: 9781338089523
Publication Date: 2017-10-31