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If You Liked Gabriela McBride, Try...

 

If you enjoyed reading about Gabriela McBride, the American Girl of the Year from 2017, you might be interested in these titles.

Fiction

Marisol by Gary Soto
Hold fast by 1955- Blue Balliett
Also available in: audiobook
Showtime! by Sheryl Berk
Destiny, rewritten by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Unstoppable Octobia May by Sharon Flake
Also available in: e-audiobook
Plum fantastic by 1950- Whoopi Goldberg
Hope is a ferris wheel by Robin Herrera
Sunny by Jason Reynolds
The dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
Also available in: e-audiobook
Shai & Emmie star in Break an egg! by 2003- Quvenzhané Wallis
The way to Bea by Kat Yeh

Nonfiction

Marley Dias gets it done : and so can you! by Marley (Marley Emerson) Dias
A boy and a jaguar by 1953- Alan Rabinowitz
You can be a dancer by Alix Wood
Jabberwalking by Juan Felipe Herrera
Brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Also available in: audiobook
Words with wings by Nikki Grimes

Biographies

Maya Angelou by Lisbeth Kaiser
Martha Graham, a dancer's life by 1929-2018 Russell Freedman
To dance : a memoir by Siena Cherson Siegel
Phillis's big test by 1952- Catherine Clinton
The Maddie diaries by Maddie Ziegler