While the political debate on immigration persists, schools and libraries across the United States already serve children and adults from widely diverse cultural backgrounds. Like readers everywhere, newcomers welcome stories that reflect their experiences and background, stories with which they can identify. And when those stories are shared with the whole community, they have the power to foster understanding and bridge differences. I’m Your Neighbor (IYN), “a project which promotes the use of children’s literature featuring “new arrival” cultures and groups to engage the entire community in a discussion of commonalities and differences” is run by Kirsten Cappy, a Children’s Literature Engagement Consultant in Portland, Maine. Cappy says that she headed to Portland in 2001 because, “I wanted to plant myself in a community and try to build connections between children and the books created for them. Dramatically, 9/11 was my last day at work. I literally drove out of NY for Maine with the towers burning behind me.” As Cappy facilitated book fairs for students in Portland, she realized that even with rigorous efforts to diversify selections, there weren’t enough books to meet the needs of refugee students from “the Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia/Eritrean, Cambodia, and the Balkans.” The underrepresentation of Muslims further fueled her commitment to collecting titles reflecting her town’s diversity. In 2010, Cappy partnered with children’s book author Anne Sibley O’Brien to find a way to share her growing “new immigration” children’s book list with a wider audience. With the help of intern Delanie Honda, the IYN website was launched via WordPress. A work in progress, IYN is a solid source of fiction and narrative nonfiction, primarily memoir and biography, related to the “new-arrival” experience. As Cappy explains, “We look for children’s books set in “new-arrival” cultures either in their home country/culture or set in the country they have emigrated to. So far, we have been looking for the stories of refugees, immigrants, and asylees that have come in large numbers to the United States in the last 40 years.” Titles are sorted by age, group represented, setting (regions and specific countries), and theme, which includes topics such as "Cultural Differences," "Immigration," and "Refugee Life," among others. IYN also links to current articles on trends in immigration and refugee literature, descriptions of projects with suggested activities to engage readers, and insightful pieces by authors and illustrators, including Terry Farrish, Anne Sibley O’Brien, Randa Abdel-Fattah, and Maria Padian, who share thoughts about the research and writing process. Because funding for IYN is limited, the development and implementation of additional materials to encourage and support community engagement with books has been temporarily put on hold. However, Cappy tells School Library Journal, “The exciting news is that we are in a dialogue with the College of Education at a major university about adopting and expanding I’m Your Neighbor Books with our team as ongoing advisors.” That type of collaboration and commitment could make IYN an even richer resource for teachers and librarians seeking to broaden their library and classroom collections to better reflect the ever-evolving American experience.