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TCL Recommended Reads
  • Spring has Sprung!
    • The Spring Book
    • Spring Parade
    • Spring
    • Break
    • Hedgehog's Home for Spring
    • First Notes of Spring
    • Hooray for Spring!
    • Don't Touch That Flower!
    • Spineless
    • Pick a Perfect Egg
    • A Spring Treasury of Recipes, Crafts, and Wisdom
    • No Matter the Distance
    • Emile and the Field
    • Dancing at Carnival
    • Zara's Rules for Living Your Best Life
  • Lunar New Year
    • Chloe's Lunar New Year
    • Our Lunar New Year
    • The Lunar New Year Surprise
    • PJ Masks Save Lunar New Year
    • Tet Together
    • Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year Parade
    • The Lucky Red Envelope
    • Tomorrow is New Year's Day
    • Golden Blooms
    • Baby Loves Lunar Phases on Chinese New Year
    • Grumpy New Year
    • A Sweet New Year for Ren
    • Lunar Tale
    • Two New Years
    • Tray of Togetherness
  • Winter Wonderland
    • Fox Versus Winter
    • Winter
    • The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First Winter
    • Winter Sports
    • Winter Fun
    • Winter
    • Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers
    • The Winter Bird
    • Winter Wonderland
    • Forest Club Winter
    • Winter Garden
    • A World Full of Winter Stories
    • Bright Winter Night
    • A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts, and Wisdom
    • The Gnomes' Winter Journey
  • Black History Month
    • ABC Black History and Me
    • Mae Makes a Way
    • Black Tech
    • The Little Rock Nine Challenge Segregation
    • What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
    • Unlawful Orders
    • Free At Last A Juneteenth Poem
    • Opal Lee
    • Black Men in Science
    • Small Shoes, Great Strides
    • To Boldly Go How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights
    • A Song Unsung
    • The Juneteenth Story
    • Black Jack
    • Young, Gifted and Black, Too
  • Holiday Reads
    • Kwanzaa A Self and Community Reaffirming Holiday
    • The Ninth Night of Hanukkah
    • Twas Nochebuena
    • The People Remember
    • The Hanukkah Hunt
    • Kwanzaa Candles
    • Hanukkah Here I Come
    • Joy to the World
    • Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas
    • The Very Merry Murder Club
    • Feliz Navidad Two Stories Celebrating Christmas
    • Joy to the World Christmas Around the Globe
    • Christmas Cheer
    • My First Kwanzaa
    • Sounding Joy
  • Stories by Indigenous Authors
    • Rez Dogs
    • Remember
    • Berry Song
    • Ancestor Approved
    • Where Wonder Grows
    • Still This Love Goes On
    • When We Were Alone
    • The Great Bear
    • Beautiful You, Beautiful Me
    • Sisters of the Neversea
    • Healer of the Water Monster
    • Race to the Sun
    • Kapaemahu
    • The Star that Always Stays
    • Birdsong
  • Not-So Spooky Reads
    • How to Make Friends with a Ghost
    • Freddie vs. the Family Curse
    • Benito the Bat Pollinates
    • Wretched Waterpark
    • Que miedo
    • Knight Owl
    • Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol: Campfire Stories
    • Witches of Brooklyn: S'more Magic
    • Valetina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter
    • A Spoonful of Frogs
    • I am Scary
    • Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter
    • I am (Not) Scared
    • The Little Vampire Moves In
    • Dia de los Muertos
  • Filipino American History Month
    • Lola A Ghost Story
    • Larry Itliong
    • How To Win A Slime War
    • Blackbird Fly
    • Corazon Aquino
    • Filipino Immigrants in their Shoes
    • Freddie vs. the Family Curse
    • When Lola Visits
    • We Belong
    • The Delano Grape Strike
    • Maria Orosa Freedom Fighter, Scientist and Inventor from the Philippines
    • The Adventures of Team Pom Squid Happens
    • Leo the Late Bloomer
    • Surely, Surely Marisol Rainey
    • The House That Lou Built
  • Celebrating Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month!
    • Frederico and the Wolf
    • Loteria More First Words
    • Platanos are Love
    • Doodles from the Boogie Down
    • Nana and Abuela
    • Crown for Corina
    • ChupaCarter
    • Freddie Ramos Powers Up
    • Frizzy
    • They Call Me Guero
    • Invisible
    • Seed in the Sun
    • Mama Goose
    • Bisa's Carnaval
    • Across the Bay
  • Hurray For School
    • Airi Sano Prankmaster General New School Skirmish
    • Amana at School
    • Behold Our Magical Garden Poems From a Fresh School Garden
    • Bo and the School Bully
    • The Bright Side
    • Fall of the School for Good and Evil
    • Graduation Day
    • How to be Confident in Kindergarten
    • Jennifer Chan is Not Alone
    • The Kindest Red A Story of Hijab and Friendship
    • Lola and the New School
    • Merriam Webster's Ready for School Words
    • The School for Whatnots
    • We're Going to School
    • Welcome Back
  • Summer Fun
    • Bon Voyage
    • Bugblock
    • Dirt and Bugsy Bug Catchers
    • The Fantastic Bureau of Imagination
    • Gustav is Missing
    • The Last Comics on Earth
    • Little Daymond Learns to Earn
    • Lola's Nana-Bibi Comes to Visit
    • My Not So Great French Escape
    • School Trip
    • The Treehouse Library
    • Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea
    • Welcome Rain
    • Whale Done
    • Where are the Eggs
  • Rainbow Reads
    • ABC Pride
    • The Big Book of Pride Flags
    • Camp Quiltbag
    • The Civil War of Amos Abernathy
    • Different Kinds of Fruit
    • Grandad's Pride
    • History Comics The Stonewall Riots
    • Kind Like Marsha
    • Payden's Pronoun Party
    • Phoenix Gets Greater
    • Pride Puppy
    • Rainbow Revolutions
    • Small Town Pride
    • Together
    • True You
  • AANPHI Heroes
    • A is for Asian American
    • The ABCs of Asian American History
    • Asian American Women in Science
    • Asian Americans Who Inspire Us
    • Awesome Asian Americans
    • Duke Kahanamoku
    • Fall Down Seven Times Stand Up Eight
    • Larry Itliong
    • Shining a Light Celebrating
    • Stories for South Asian Supergirls
    • Suni Lee
    • Yes We Will Americans Who Shaped this Country
    • We Are Here
    • Who is Kamala Harris
    • Who Was Bruce Lee
  • Kids' Poetry Reads
    • Behold our Magical Garden
    • Exquisite
    • What is Poetry
    • When Green Becomes Tomatoes
    • Just Like Me
    • Bravo
    • Breathe and Be
    • Everything Comes Next
    • Guess Who Haiku
    • Sing a Song
    • My Thoughts are Clouds
    • Daniel Finds a Poem
    • Kiyoshis Walk
    • Poems Aloud
    • Marshmallow Clouds
  • Trailblazing Women
    • Malala
    • We Got Game
    • Noisemakers
    • What Would She Do
    • The US WASP
    • This Little Trailblazer
    • Astronauts
    • Shaking Things Up
    • Women in Science
    • Women win the vote
    • She Did it
    • Wonder Women
    • code breaker
    • Amazing Women
    • the dr
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Martin Luther King Jr
    • MLK Mini Bio
    • My Dream
    • I am MLK Jr
    • Voice for Equality
    • Who Was MLK
    • Little People
    • Great Civil Rights Leader
    • The Rabbi and the Reverend
    • Ana and Andrew
  • Winter Holiday Reads
    • Little Havana
    • Meet the Latkes
    • Tizzy the Dizzy
    • Daddy Christmas
    • The Ninth Night
    • Queen of Hanukkah
    • Too Many Tamales
    • Pick a Pine Tree
    • A Pinata in a Pine Tree
    • Nochebuena
    • Unicorn Christmas
    • The Lost Christmas
    • The People Remember
    • The Hanukkah Hop
    • Celebrate Kwanzaa
    • A World of Cookies for Santa
    • One Starry Night
    • My Baby Loves Christmas
    • A Simple Christmas
    • The ABCs of Christmas
  • Indigenous Heroes
    • Sharice's Big Voice
    • Maria Tallchief
    • Buffalo Bird Girl
    • Fatty Legs
    • Who were the navajo code talkers
    • Jim Thorpe
    • Classified
    • Finding My Dance
    • At the Mountains Base
    • Chester Nez
    • Be Brave
    • Deb Haaland
    • Sacagawea
    • Wilma Mankiller
    • Joseph Brant
  • Books that Celebrate Pride
    • Miss Rita
    • Pride Colors
    • Pride the celebration
    • Be Amazing
    • Harvey Milk
    • People of Pride
    • Twas the night before
    • Strong
    • Grandad's Camper
    • Rainbow
    • This Day in June
    • Drew Leclaire
    • Answers in the Pages
    • Bathe the Cat
    • Bling Blaine
  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Month
    • In the land of happy tears
    • Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
    • When Lola Visits
    • Bracelets for Bina's Brothers
    • Amy Wu
    • Sumo Joe
    • Amah Faraway
    • Our Favorite Day
    • Ohana Means Family
    • The Most Beautiful Thing
    • Gibberish
    • Hot Pot Night
    • A Boy Named Isamu
    • I am Golden
    • Alvin Ho
    • Inside Out and Back Again
    • Front Desk
    • Brother's Keeper
    • The House that Lou Built
    • More to the Story
    • A Big Mooncake for Little Star
  • Jewish American Heritage Month
    • I Dissent
    • Turtle Boy
    • Tia Fortuna's New Home
    • The Singer and the Scientist
    • Thank You Dr. Salk
    • Becoming Brianna
    • Chunky
    • The girl with more than one heart
    • Doctor Esperanto
  • Women's History
    • I look up to Serena Williams
    • 321 Awesome
    • Mae Among the Stars
    • Noisemakers
    • History Smashers
    • She Persisted
    • Rad American Women
    • Shaking Things Up
    • Goodnight Stories
    • She Did It
    • Patricia's Vision
    • Herstory
    • Ready to Fly
    • I am Marie Curie
    • The Girl Who Rode the Shark
  • Black Joy
    • The Okay With and the Hungry Shadow
    • Parker Dresses Up
    • I Am Every Good Thing
    • Magic Trash
    • Shuri the Vanished
    • Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
    • Love Double Dutch!
    • Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
    • Happy Hair
    • My Rainbow
    • Jabari Tries
    • Welcome to the Party
    • Baby Young, Gifted, and Black
    • Who?: A Celebration of Babies
    • Ty's Travels: Beach Day!
    • The Why Files: Exploring Flight!
    • Leo Loves Daddy
    • The Last Mirror on the Left
    • Operation Sisterhood
    • Roar of the Beast