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Review of Black Is a Rainbow Color
Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy; illus. by Ekua Holmes Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 1/20 978-1-62672-631-4 $17.99 A young girl sits on her stoop contemplating the colors of the rainbow, then notes, “But my color is black…and there’s no black in rainbows.” There is, however, black in...
Review of Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 193 pp. 10/19 978-1-4814-3828-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-3830-8 $10.99 Ten blocks. Ten stories. Lots of middle-school kids doing many different things after school. Jasmine and TJ walk home together, wondering what they’re made of—dust...
The Bell Rang
Any time I have heard an African American person speak of learning about slavery as a child, the memory entails some degree of shame. In his memoir Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers wrote about feeling, as a child looking at his textbook’s shallow treatment of slavery, that somehow those people...
Review of The Bridge Home audiobook
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman; read by the author Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 1/19 4 CDs 4.55 hrs. 978-1-9848-4509-2 $38.00 Venkatraman’s memorable middle-grade and middle-school novel follows homeless children trying to survive on the streets of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India. In this excellent audio...
Review of The Phantom Tollbooth audiobook
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster; read by Rainn Wilson Intermediate Listening Library 4 CDs 4.68 hrs. 978-1-9848-8703-0 $20.00 Juster’s classic tale about a bored boy named Milo who finds adventure and fodder for the mind in the Lands Beyond gets new attention in this audio production read by actor...
Review of Other Words for Home
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 342 pp. 5/19 978-0-06-274780-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-274782-2 $8.99 Warga’s (My Heart and Other Black Holes, rev. 1/15) latest book is a middle-grade and middle-school novel written in free verse and narrated by a Syrian girl named...
Review of Let ’Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion
Let ’Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Championby Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; illus. by Gordon C. JamesPrimary, Intermediate Carolrhoda 40 pp. g2/19 978-1-5124-9808-0 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5145-4180-1 $18.99Nelson (Bad News for Outlaws, rev. 11/09) returns to the Old West for this engrossing picture-book biography of African American cowboy and bronc buster George...
Seeing Into Tomorrow
Seeing Into Tomorrow is a marriage of two unique talents of different eras: the text is by Richard Wright, author of Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945); the art is by Nina Crews, known for her picture books pairing texts with photographic collage and featuring diverse children. In this latest work, Crews has...