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Book of the Week

The View from the Very Best House in Town

Posted on May 23, 2022

Sam, white, and Asha, Indian American, both autistic, are best friends until Sam is accepted to Castleton Academy for seventh grade. At Castleton, Sam is bullied until popular girl Prestyn takes a sudden interest in him.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Middle Grade Fiction

Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

Posted on May 16, 2022

A bilingual (English/Chinese) counting book follows little Mia and her Uncle Eddie on a walk through Chinatown. They are headed to the Big Wok restaurant for dim sum.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Picture Book

Cress Watercress

Posted on May 9, 2022

Cress Watercress is a young rabbit whose family is on the move. Papa didn’t come home from his last foraging trip; Mama is now supporting Cress and her baby brother, Kip, on her own.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, middle grade

Snow Angel, Sand Angel

Posted on May 2, 2022

Claire and her brother, Timbo, each make winter-themed dioramas for a school project. Timbo’s is cotton balls of snow and glitter; Claire’s is about migration—their home, the Big Island of Hawaiʿi, is a winter refuge for many birds.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Picture Book

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

Posted on April 25, 2022

Do colors have histories? Brew-Hammond reveals that blue most certainly does. Although people have always been able to see the color blue in the sky, lakes, and oceans, recreating blue is another matter.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Informational, Picture Book

Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

Posted on April 18, 2022

Zhanna Arshanskaya and her sister, Frina, are two talented musicians growing up in Ukraine in the 1930s.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Middle Grade Fiction

Aviva vs. the Dybbuk

Posted on April 11, 2022

Next to the synagogue, in the building that houses the mikvah (ritual bath), Aviva lives with her mother, Ema, and a dybbuk—visible only to Aviva—who delights in wreaking minor havoc.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Middle Grade Fiction

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Posted on April 4, 2022

An inspired biography uses poems and prose to explore the life of groundbreaking African American speculative and science fiction writer Octavia Butler.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir

Mina

Posted on March 28, 2022

 “Mina lived in her own little world where nothing ever bothered her. Except for one thing.”

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, Picture Book

Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity

Posted on March 21, 2022

Peruvian American sisters Lulu and Milagro aren’t exactly close and certainly weren’t planning to spend spring break together.

Posted in Book of the WeekTagged 2022 Books, YA Fiction
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