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Review of We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell; illus. by Frané Lessac Primary, Intermediate Charlesbridge 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-62354-192-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-973-6 $9.99 In this informational picture book by the team behind We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (rev. 11/18), a diverse group of students...
Review of Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith Intermediate, Middle School Heartdrum/HarperCollins 320 pp. g 2/21 978-0-06-286994-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-286996-8 $9.99 Through this linked anthology by seventeen contributors, readers experience “What Is a Powwow?” (the title of Kim Rogers’s opening poem), as characters converge in Ann...
Review of Firekeeper's Daughter
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 496 pp. g 3/21 978-1-250-76656-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-76657-1 $10.99 Recent high school graduate Daunis Firekeeper (known for much of the book by her white mother’s family name, Fontaine) decides to stay in Sault St. Marie, Michigan, and attend Lake State with...
Review of You Should See Me in a Crown
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson High School Scholastic 336 pp. g 6/20 978-1-338-50326-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-50362-3 $10.99 Senior Liz Lighty has successfully stayed out of the spotlight and off of Campbell County High School’s new social networking app, Campbell Confidential. Being poor and Black...
Review of Root Magic
Root Magic by Eden Royce Intermediate, Middle School Walden/HarperCollins 352 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-289957-6 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-289960-6 $8.99 Eleven-year-old Jezebel’s family has done “rootwork” for generations. In 1963, many of the people on their South Carolina island frequent her grandmother and uncle’s cabin for the healing potions they make,...
I Am Every Good Thing
One of the criteria for the Caldecott Medal is excellence of pictorial interpretation of story, theme, or concept. One look at Derrick Barnes's and Gordon C. James's I Am Every Good Thing and it is clear that the theme of the book is love for Black boys. The cover of the...
Review of Dear Justyce
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone High School Crown 288 pp. g 9/20 978-1-9848-2966-5 $18.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-2967-2 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-2968-9 $10.99 In this sequel to Dear Martin (rev. 11/17), we are reintroduced to Quan, best friend of that book’s protagonist. Dear Justyce opens with a flashback to Quan and...
An Interview with MacArthur Fellow Jacqueline Woodson
On October 19, 2020, Horn Book executive editor Elissa Gershowitz and Horn Book reviewers and contributors Monique Harris, Nicholl Denice Montgomery, and Dr. Kim Parker had a phone conversation with newly named MacArthur Fellow Jacqueline Woodson. Huge thanks to Moné Dixon, assistant to Jacqueline Woodson, and Edelman representative Amaya Starkey, for the...
Review of Before the Ever After
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson Intermediate Paulsen/Penguin 176 pp. g 9/20 978-0-399-54543-6 $17.99 In her latest novel in verse, Woodson (Locomotion, rev. 3/03; Brown Girl Dreaming, rev. 9/14) explores the impact of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) on football players and their families from the perspective of ZJ, son...
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