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This important follow-up to the bestselling, groundbreaking, and
polarizing Something Happened in Our Town, is a much-needed story
to help communities in the aftermath of gun violence. When Miles's
cousin Keisha is injured in a shooting, he realizes people can work
together to reduce the likelihood of violence in their community.
With help from friends and family, Miles learns to use his
imagination and creativity to help him cope with his fears. This
book can help provides parents helpful messages of reassurance and
empowerment. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers
with guidelines for discussing community gun violence with
children, and sample dialogues.
Carmen loves doing magic with her Papi. He can make sarapes fly. He
can make rabbits vanish! But one day, her Papi vanishes. She is sad
and scared when she learns he has been detained because he is an
undocumented immigrant from Mexico. At first, Carmen's family keeps
Papi's detention a secret, fearing that they might be judged
negatively. As Carmen's community becomes aware of their situation,
they rally around her family with love. Carmen learns she can find
strength in herself and maintain her connection with Papi, no
matter what happens. The Something Happened books present and
explain sensitive and important events happening in communities
across the United States and around the world. Told in clear,
compelling stories, the books come with the authority of
psychological expertise from the American Psychological
Association. They include Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's
Story of Racial Injustice, which is a New York Times and #1
IndieBound bestseller, and one of ALA's most banned books Something
Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, which
was nominated for The Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for
Social Justice; and Something Happened to My Dad:A Story About
Immigration and Family Separation.
The New York Times bestseller Emma and Josh heard that something
happened in their town. A black man was shot by the police. "Why
did the police shoot that man?" "Can police go to jail?" Something
Happened in Our Town follows two families - one white, one black -
as they discuss a police shooting of a black man in their
community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such
traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial
injustice in their own lives. Includes an extensive Note to Parents
and Caregivers with guidelines for discussing race and racism with
children, child-friendly definitions, and sample dialogues. * 2018
Foreword Reviews Finalist in the Picture Books category.
A Carmen le encanta hacer trucos de magia con su Papi. El puede
hacer volar los sarapes. !El puede hacer desaparecer los conejos!
Pero un dIa, su Papi desaparece. Ella se siente triste y asustada
cuando se entera que El ha sido detenido porque es un inmigrante
indocumentado de MExico. Inicialmente, la familia de Carmen
mantiene en secreto la detenciOn de Papi, por miedo a ser juzgados
negativamente. A medida que los demAs se dan cuenta de la
situaciOn, la comunidad de Carmen se une en apoyo a su familia.
Carmen aprende que, a travEs de la comunidad y el amor, puede
encontrar fuerza dentro de sI misma y mantener su conexiOn con Papi
no importa lo que pase.
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