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, […]
The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border
Reviewed by Brad Manker Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Our home is different. Not like it used to be. When the protagonist, Noemí, and her mother are suddenly uprooted and forced to flee their homes in central Mexico, they seek refuge in the United States. At the border checkpoint, they meet Belinda, a […]
Boys Dance!
Reviewed by Lila Chafe Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Written by John Robert Allman and illustrated by Luciano Lozano, Boys Dance! follows a class of young boys as they are immersed into the world of ballet. The playful and simple illustrations are matched by rhyming verses narrating the routine of ballet class. Multiracial classmates […]
Bitter
Reviewed by Alex Brown Review Source: Tor.com Book Author: In Pet, Akwaeke Emezi’s 2019 young adult debut, we followed Jam and Redemption as they hunted down an all-too-human monster with the titular creature, an angel from another dimension. Two years later Emezi has bestowed upon the world the follow-up, a prequel about Jam’s eventual parents, Bitter and […]
The Assignment
Interview by Alaina Leary Review Source: Diverse Books.org Book Author: Book description: SENIOR YEAR. When an assignment given by a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution, a euphemism used to describe the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people, Logan March and Cade Crawford are horrified. Their […]
We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America
Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: To understand this critique of We Are A Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America you must begin with, and hold fast to, the fact that Native peoples were nations of peoples before the U.S. was a nation. Our status as nations […]
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