We ALL need to be talking about the impact of #deportation on communities. The middle-grade novel GUERRERA / WARRIOR GIRL by @carmentafolla.bsky.social opens these conversations and restores power to children impacted by family separation. Know a family that needs books like these? Contact IYNB📚

Sandra Cisneros once said, "We need books...in unkind times."* We offers a list of #Books4UnkindTimes —books that help children, families & the broader community negotiate the trauma of ICE intimidation, detention, and deportation. Know a family that needs these books? Contact Us!

Are your kids asking: - Am I safe? - Does my family matter? - Do I belong here? Listen to award-winning author Ernesto Cisneros reassure them! To watch to the rest of this amazing video, head to our Youtube channel ➡️➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=no29... #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong

Freeport Oyster Bar is stepping up for Maine’s #immigrant community! Any drinks, #oysters or other menu items will benefit I’m Your Neighbor Books. PLEASE JOIN US❤️ 43 Main St, Freeport, ME 04032 For every donation made, the nonprofit will give a book to Freeport Community Services’ youth programs.

Last Friday, we were invited to celebrate the end of testing with some amazing students. Luckily we were able to gift some of our favorite Immigrant & #NewGeneration picture books🎁 . Such a great experience! #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong

Thank you to Deqa Dhalac for delivering an all #Muslim #WelcomingLibrary collection to the Bilal Mosque in #Portland. And an even bigger thank you to the Maine Community Foundation for the gift that made Immigrant & New Generation book collections for 7 community organizations possible!!

Committed to sending #SanctuaryStories - healing book boxes for children impacted by ICE. A teacher wrote that her asylee students do not want to be sent back to a place that they do not remember or a place in turmoil. She asked for books that celebrated 🇻🇪 and the #VenezuelanAmerican experience.

Wow! Just got a surprise shipment from @childsplayusa.bsky.social - 300 free copies of the #CongoleseAmerican picture book KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! To be surrounded by @rahanabanana.bsky.social artwork and Yaya Gentille's words is the greatest of these joys. ❤️

#SanctuaryStories program is designed to use K-12 #Immigrant & New Generation books to tell kids impacted by ICE that “You are NOT ALONE.” Honored to send a box of this anthology to our #neighbors in #Minnesota #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong #iceout

Happy #ReadYourWorld Day! Books with us all in, so every child can see themselves and each other on the pages they read. Kende! Kende! Kende! by Kirsten Cappy #YayaGentille illustrated by @rahanabanana.bsky.social More via our bio #kidlit @pubspotlight.bsky.social @imyourneighbor.bsky.social #RYWD

NOWHERE BOY is a meditation on TRUST—on seeing an individual, not an #immigrant. #SanctuaryStories offer Immigrant (and ALL) students emotional safety, rest, restoration, and #BELONGING. Lacking legal sanctuary, these boys break the rules to do right. Need this #mglit? Ask for a GIVEAWAY COPY.

"This nation will always be made up of #Indigenous people and immigrants of the past, present, and future. WE BELIEVE THESE DIFFERENCES MAKE US STRONGER." —I'M AN AMERICAN by @darshanakhiani.bsky.social Our #SanctuaryStories offer #Immigrant, New Generation, & ALL communities a place of safety.

#SanctuaryStories are #kidlit that stand against Unsafe Narratives about our #Immigrant & New Generation communities. Unsafe Narrative "Some people deserve to be here and others do not." #PlylerVDoe says EVERY CHILD in the US— regardless of immigration status—BELONGS in our #classrooms.

The *2023 New Arrival Book Award* from @imyourneighbor.bsky.social has been given to *Green Card Voices* for the #graphicnovel anthology OUR STORIES CARRIED US HERE! youtu.be/rngSHZ42Hnw?... #ImYourNeighborBookAward #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong

From Pajama Press IF YOU SEE A BLUEBIRD a "lovely, gentle book about refugees from Afghanistan should resonate with anyone who has had to leave their home for a safer place...an effective mirror and a door for understanding war and displacement” ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2023/11/15/i...

Maine teachers! Applications close *12/1/23* for this amazing opportunity to explore SEL with I'm Your Neighbor Books #WelcomingLibrary picture books! This project was envisioned and funded by the Maine Department of Education! #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong imyourneighborbooks.org/free-sel-tra...

Telling the #immigrant story with book spines... #ImYourNeighborBooks #Read2WelcomeRead2Belong