Mrs. Kormel is not normal! [My weird school Volume: #11]by Gutman, Dan 

BTSB Prebound(HarperTrophy, 2006)

BTSB #: 408622 Available

Dewey: FAges: 7-10   
AR: 3.8 LG RC: 3.1 3-5 Lexile: 640 F&P: O

Genres: Humorous Fiction

Subjects: Bus drivers - Fiction School buses - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction Humorous fiction

Summary: A.J.'s schoolbus gets hopelessly lost at the hands of Mrs. Kormel, the wacky bus driver.

Pie in the sky by Lai, Remy 

Paperback(Holt, 2019)

BTSB #: 537348 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720

Genres:

Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction School stories Belonging (Social psychology) - Fiction Cakes - Fiction Baking - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Australia - Fiction

Summary: Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.

Pie in the sky by Lai, Remy 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2019)

BTSB #: 537349 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-11   
AR: 4.5 MG RC: 4.4 3-5 Lexile: 720

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Immigrants - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction School stories Belonging (Social psychology) - Fiction Cakes - Fiction Baking - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Australia - Fiction

Summary: Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.

Talking leaves by Bruchac, Joseph 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 163290 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 4.8 MG RC: 4.6 6-8 Lexile: 750

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Sequoyah,|d1770?-1843 - Fiction Cherokee Indians - Fiction Native Americans - North America - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction

Summary: The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son.

Thousand white butterflies by Betancourt-Perez, Jessica 

BTSB Prebound(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 117194 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
F&P: L

Genres: Multicultural

Subjects: Snow - Fiction First day of school - Fiction Immigrants - Fiction Language and languages - Fiction Colombians - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, but when classes are cancelled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Columbia more than ever. Then Isabella meets Katie and finds out that making friends in the cold is easier than she thought!

We laugh alike : a story that's part Spanish, part English, and a whole lot of fun = Juntos nos reimos by Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. 

BTSB PreboundBILINGUAL(Charlesbridge, 2021)

BTSB #: 115117 Available

Dewey: EAges: 5-8   
F&P: K

Genres: Spanish Bilingual

Subjects: Language and languages - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Communication - Fiction Play - Fiction Bilingual books - English-Spanish

Summary: Six children are at the park, one group speaks only English and the other only Spanish, but soon they learn to communicate through playing, dancing, and singing. In English and Spanish.

Word for friend by Cassie, Aidan 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020)

BTSB #: 198265 Available

Dewey: EAges: 4-8   


Genres: Animals

Subjects: Language and languages - Fiction School stories Immigrants - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Moving - Fiction Pangolins - Fiction

Summary: An adorable pangolin starts school in a new country and grapples with the unfamiliar language her classmates are speaking.