CHANGING the STORY.

DIVERSITY in education; CHILDREN'S books; ELEMENTARY school libraries; RACIAL differences; CROSS-cultural differences; FOURTH grade (Education); ELEMENTARY schools

The article shows how Emi Kim, a fourth-grader who is part Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Native Hawaiian, is helping kids in her school see themselves in the books they read as part of her mission to make the library at Westbridge Elementary School in Provo, Utah more diverse and inclusive. Emphasis is given on Kim's thinking that kids must understand each other in spite of their racial and cultural differences. It highlights her efforts in selling lemonade and baked goods to buy diverse books.