While I Was Away

Joy and Leo's Bright Brain: Joy and Leo Learn to Embrace their Learning Disability

Amazing Abe Has Autism!

Everybody, Always for Kids

Return to Sender

Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial (Meeting the Challenge)

Little Hero Boy LCPL Anthony Aguirre

Abuelita's American Dream: A Puerto Rican Migrant's Story

As our neighborhoods grow more diverse, a splendid variety of cultures, values and traditions become an important part of our classrooms and schools. In Kids Like Me, 26 personal narratives celebrate the experience of young people making a new home in a strange community-finding common ground as they make new friends, learn English, share their cultural identities, their challenges, successes and dreams. Kids Like Me provides a youthful perspective on the important themes of crossing cultures, immigration and citizenship and learning to appreciate differences. These stories are intended to foster intercultural awareness and sensitivity and encourage individual and community action to assist newcomers in their adjustment. While written to help youth understand their classmates and friends, Kids Like Me also includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas for teachers and other mentors that can be used in classrooms, youth clubs and community settings. Richly illustrated with photos and maps of each home country, the text presents countless opportunities to explore and understand different cultures and new friends. Young people who have come from all over the world share their stories and invite their new neighbors to see that in so many ways these kids are just like me.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

While I Was Away

Waka T. Brown, 2021

Joy and Leo's Bright Brain: Joy and Leo Learn to Embrace their Learning Disability

Jordan A. Greene, Carlton W. Greene Jr., Jordan A. Greene and Carlton W. Greene Jr., 2023

Amazing Abe Has Autism!

Rooman F Ahad Md, 2022

Everybody, Always for Kids

Bob Goff, Lindsey Goff Viducich, Diane Le Feyer, 2021

Return to Sender

Juliet Rosetti, 2022

Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial (Meeting the Challenge)

Bethany Kandel, 1997

Little Hero Boy LCPL Anthony Aguirre

Christina Salinas Castillo, 2023

Abuelita's American Dream: A Puerto Rican Migrant's Story

Danise B Sumner, Lola Usupova, 2023