“In the first morning light, all is quiet. Or is it? Listen. What sound is morning?”
Starred Review of the Week
Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
This necessary book for our time is labeled a “remix” of Kendi’s 2016 National Book Award winner published for adults, Stamped from the Beginning.
When Stars Are Scattered
Separated from their mother when soldiers attacked their Somalian village, Omar and his brother, Hassan, live in a sprawling refugee camp in Kenya, watched over by loving foster mother Fatuma.
Red Hood
Bisou was a little girl when her father killed her mother.
Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices
The children, young teens, and families at the center of each slice-of-life offering in this vibrant collection come from many backgrounds and live in many different places.
Cat Dog Dog
This fresh, warm, funny account about members of a newly configured household learning to get along revolves around two dogs (one small, one large) and a cat.
Dragon Hoops
Part memoir, part history, and part riveting sports story, Yang opens his humorous graphic novel with a confession: He’s always hated sports.
Leaving Lymon
With his daddy in Parchman Farms, the state penitentiary, Lymon is being raised by his grandparents in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Hike
A brown-skinned father and his child (who could be any gender) wake up before dawn, eat breakfast, pack their car, and head out of the city and into the wilderness, where they spend the day hiking.
A Game of Fox & Squirrels
Samantha, 11, and her sister Caitlyn, 14, have just arrived at their aunt Vicky’s in Oregon, but Sam is already thinking about going home. Caitlyn, who has a broken arm, seems content.