Reviewed by Paige Pagan Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Written in the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, this insightful middle grade novel teases out serious themes such as war and politics, immigration and racism, classism and labor, genderism, and more through the lens […]
Flying Through Water
Reviewed by Elizabeth Abena Osei Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive. […]
Habibi
Review Source: Independent Book Author: An educator wrote: While I love Naomi Shihab Nye’s 1997 book Habibi, it may be helpful to add a disclaimer that it uses the ‘Jews and Arabs’ formula. Also, although the storyline begins to explore ways in which the Oslo Accords did not live up to the initially high hopes […]
Three Strike Summer
Reviewed by Betsy Bird Review Source: School Library Journal Book Author: The gutsy girl is a conundrum in children’s books. She seems so easy to conjure up. Writing a bit of historical fiction? Surely all you have to do is just give your heroine some feisty comebacks and historically accurate inequities and the audience will be […]
Charles Albert Bender: National Hall of Fame Pitcher
Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Biographies of Native sports figures have been few and far between, in my experience. Jim Thorpe and Tom Longboat are two that immediately come to mind. So it feels great to be able to recommend Kade Ferris’ middle grade book about the […]
Ella Cara Deloria: Dakota Language Protector
Reviewed by Jean Mendoza Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: . . . . Author Diane Wilson (Dakota) follows Ella Deloria from her childhood on the Standing Rock reservation to the creation of a fellowship in her name at Columbia University in 2010, nearly 4 decades after her death in 1971. Wilson […]
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