On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. Andrea Davis Pinkney's powerful and poetic text tells the story of Ezra...
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Author: Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
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Author: Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSummary:
Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few...
Genre: Pastoral fiction -
Author: Grimes, NikkiSummary:
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance—paired with...
Genre: Juvenile poetry -
Author: Burton, LevarSummary:
"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler.New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Author: Johannes, Shelli R., Derting, KimberlySummary:
Libby and her friends are put in charge of the science booth at their school fair. There's only one problem: no one is visiting their booth! Does everyone think science is boring? Libby and...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Witt, BrandonSummary:
On September 1, 2011, TJ Klune wrote, "...it's not about the ending, it's about the journey..." in a review of Eric Arvin's Woke Up in a Strange Place. With those words, two men began a journey of...
Genre: Short stories, Romance fiction -
Author: Hoffman, MarySummary:
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Grandin, TempleSummary:
From renowned scientist and animal welfare advocate Temple Grandin, this groundbreaking book is a clarion call to awareness of the inner lives of humankind's far-too-often mistreated and neglected...
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Author: Grabenstein, Chris, Patterson, JamesSummary:
After the evil Corporation attempts to kidnap her, Max Einstein is hiding out in New York. But how can she be like her hero Albert Einstein if she spends her time hiding instead of helping?
Genre: Juvenile fiction