Reviewed by Alex Morales Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: Areli is a Dreamer by Areli Morales tells the compelling story of Areli’s experience immigrating to the United States from Mexico as a young child. I am a DACA recipient, and this book uncovered emotions within me that I had not confronted since I […]
Black, White, Just Right!
Reviewed by Madisyn Myers Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: Black, White, Just Right!, written by Marguerite Davol and illustrated by Irene Trivas, tells the story of an interracial couple and their young daughter. The story shows the many differences between the young girl’s African American mother and white father and how she has […]
Those Shoes
Reviewed by Eden Grey Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts is a sweet and touching story that addresses issues of social justice, empathy, generosity, and selflessness through the eyes of a young boy named Jeremy and his pursuit of a new pair of shoes. After his sneakers fall apart […]
Ten Beautiful Things
Reviewed by Catherine Taunton Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: None of this was easy. Maybe it would never be easy. But she belonged with Gram now. She belonged here now. This place wasn’t empty and neither was she. In Ten Beautiful Things by Molly Beth Griffin, the main character, Lily, goes through a […]
The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond: A Civil Rights Icon
Reviewed Aisha Kiani Review Source: I Dream Library Book Author: The story of Viola Desmond’s act of resistance against segregation in a Nova Scotia theater is one we’ve been teaching and including in lesson plans and book lists since we began our work with teachers in 2019. The book we’ve used is a kidlit picture […]
Just Like Grandma
Reviewed by Amy Buckelew-Foster Review Source: Reading Is Resistance Book Author: Together they flutter like the most beautiful butterflies Grandpa has ever seen, until the sun dips below the tree line and he calls them in for fried chicken. Just Like Grandma is a beautiful story of a multigenerational Native American family in a contemporary […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- …
- 41
- Next Page »