Reviewed by Lucy Sieczka Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams follows the story of 17-year-old Harriet Douglass on her mission to stop a neighboring plantation from becoming an event venue. Harriet has lived on the Westwood Plantation for about a decade as her parents restored the […]
Juliet Takes a Breath
Reviewed by Sawyer Lovett Source: Lambda Literary Author: Do you remember the first book that changed the way you looked at the world? The one that made you question the status quo and your place in it? For Juliet, a chubby 19-year-old Puerto Rican queer girl from the Bronx, it’s Raging Flower: Empowering your Pussy by […]
¡Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War
Reviewed by Bill Fletcher Review Source: Monthly Review Book Author: Sometime prior to my eighth birthday, my great-grandfather, the poet, writer, and anthologist William Stanley Braithwaite, bought me my first comic book. For reasons that I have long since forgotten, we walked to a pharmacy on the corner of Edgecombe Avenue and St. Nicholas Place […]
We’re in This Together: A Young Readers Edition of We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders
Reviewed by Hadeal Salamah Review Source: Hijabi Librarians Book Author: In this Young Readers’ edition of her 2020 memoir We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders, Linda Sarsour narrates and reflects upon the events that shaped her into the person and activist she is today. Outlined in chapters, Sarsour makes connections to her life experiences and her […]
This Is My America
Reviewed by Keesha Ceran Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Kim Johnson’s This Is My America is a beautiful book following the story of the Beaumont family and the protagonist, Tracy Beaumont. Tracy has made it her mission to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row, who as this book begins, […]
Our Missing Hearts
Reviewed by Renée H. Shea Review Source: Poets & Writers Book Author: Ravenous With Story: A Profile of Celeste Ng “Stranger than fiction” seems meaningless during a time — our time, now — when the unimaginable is a daily reality. Yet in her new novel, Our Missing Hearts, published in October by Penguin Press, Celeste Ng […]
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