How to make friends with the sea by Guerrero, Tanya 

Paperback(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)

BTSB #: 406079 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4 MG Lexile: 510

Genres: Family Life Multicultural

Subjects: Anxiety - Fiction Self-acceptance - Fiction Cleft lip - Fiction People with disabilities - Fiction Foster children - Fiction Philippines - Fiction

Summary: Moving to the Philippines with his zoologist mother, twelve-year-old Pablo struggles with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.

Words in the dust by Reedy, Trent 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2012)

BTSB #: P01752 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-13   


Genres:

Subjects: Family life - Afghanistan - Fiction Cleft lip - Fiction

Summary: Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.