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We Sing from the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen; illus. by Victor Bizar GómezIntermediate, Middle School Red Comet 48 pp.10/24 9781636550879 $19.99“We know you / fear change / it’s something / so strange.” Simon Tam, musician and activist,...
Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty; illus. by Elizabeth BaddeleyPrimary, Intermediate McElderry 48 pp.3/25 9781665937474 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665937481 $10.99In 1903, when Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson (1872–1955) began his attempt to cross the United States in an automobile he had yet to learn...
And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Daniel MinterPrimary, Intermediate Little, Brown 48 pp.1/25 9780316182362 $18.99Toni Morrison (1931–2019), a gifted student, was the only Black girl in her Lorain, Ohio, first-grade class. She grew up to be a trailblazing book editor and...
Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama by Doreen Rappaport; illus. by Tonya EngelPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp.1/25 9780316397834 $19.99President Barack Obama’s path through life has been anything but linear. This picture-book biography in verse relates how “Barry” (as he was known in childhood), who was born to a...
A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chiang Revolutionized Chinese Food in America by Julie Leung; illus. by Melissa IwaiPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp.4/25 9780759557413 $18.99Take a compelling story of an indomitable chef, add heaps of immersive sensory details, stir in a warm palette, then devour this tasty introduction to Cecilia...
Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 336 pp. 9/24 9780063069541 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063069565 $9.99 Epidemiologists are scientists who study the causes, patterns, and control of diseases in groups of people. Positioning epidemiologists as forensic detectives, Cherrix examines...
Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate Knopf 256 pp. 9/24 9780593177006 $17.99 Library ed. 9780593177013 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593177020 $10.99 Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect it....
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a close...
Fast Cheetah, Slow Tortoise: Poems of Animal Opposites by Bette Westera; illus. by Mies van Hout; trans. from Dutch by David Colmer Primary Eerdmans 40 pp. 9/24 9780802856357 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781467468657 $18.99 This quirky, inviting picture book–length poetry collection acts as a visual dictionary of opposites. Sixteen pairs of...
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