Entering Grade Three
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HISTORY & HISTORICAL FICTION

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka Con La Papa
Sara Andrea Fajardo
What can a potato do? To Peruvian scientist Alberto Salas, they have the power to change the world. Go on the hunt with Alberto for for wild potatoes before they go extinct.
The Library in the Woods
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
After a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with his family to Roxboro, North Carolina. The year is 1959, and the nine-year-old boy has to navigate the realities of the segregated South while adjusting to life in town. Instead of farming, his father works at the lumberyard, and his mother takes in laundry from the white people in town. Junior meets new friends who have a TV--and their own books! These new friends offer to take Junior to the library, and he's surprised to discover that in a clearing in the forest, there's a log cabin that houses a library for Black residents.
Brave
Weshoyot Alvitre
A young Native American boy demonstrates bravery by proudly wearing his long hair in a braid to honor his ancestors' traditions.
How Sweet the Sound
Kwame Alexander
A celebration of the history of Black music in America.
I am Osage: how Clarence Tinker became the first Native American major general
Kim Rogers
An informative and inspiring picture celebrates the achievements of Clarence Tinker, a member of the Osage Nation who became the first Native American major general.
Chinese Menu
Grace Lin
Separated into courses like a Chinese menu, these tales—based in real history and folklore—are filled with squabbling dragons, magical fruits, and hungry monks. This book will bring you to far-off times and marvelous  places, all while making your mouth water. And, along the way, you might just discover a deeper understanding of the resilience and triumph behind this food, and what makes it undeniably American. 
Kapaemahu
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu 
Four individuals of dual male and female spirit bring their healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, where they are beloved for their gentle ways and miraculous cures and where they imbue four giant boulders with their powers.
Journey Through Ash and Smoke (Ranger in Time)
Kate Messner
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he meets a girl named Helga, who seems perfectly able to take care of herself--until an erupting volcano and an early arriving baby forces Ranger and Helga to journey through the ash and smoke to find her father and bring him home. (series)
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