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Review of Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes; illus. by various artists Intermediate, Middle School, High School Bloomsbury 144 pp. g 1/21 978-1-68119-944-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68119-945-0 $13.29 Grimes returns to the Harlem Renaissance (One Last Word, rev. 3/17) to showcase the works of some female poets whose...
Review of Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation
Northbound: A Train Ride Out of Segregation by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary Candlewick 40 pp. g 10/20 978-0-7636-9650-4 $17.99 In this picture book set in the 1960s (and inspired by the author’s childhood memories), Michael and his granddaddy are fascinated by the...
Review of William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Peachtree 40 pp. g 11/20 978-1-56145-935-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68263-277-2 $8.99 Tate introduces readers to the African American abolitionist known as the Father of the Underground Railroad in this...
Review of The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson Intermediate, Middle School Crown 128 pp. g 8/20 978-0-593-12161-0 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-12162-7 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-12163-4 $9.99 In the African American community, parents and caregivers engage their children in conversations aimed at helping...
Review of Freedom Bird
Freedom Bird by Jerdine Nolen; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary Wiseman/Simon 32 pp. 1/20 978-0-689-87167-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-0222-4 $10.99 Nolen presents an original story about flight and freedom — the former an enduring motif, the latter a recurrent theme, in African American folklore. Millicent and John worked alongside...
Review of King and the Dragonflies
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 263 pp. g 2/20 978-1-338-12933-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-12935-9 $10.99 In their second middle-grade novel (Hurricane Child, rev. 5/18), set in contemporary small-town Louisiana, Callender masterfully balances resonant themes of grief, love, family, friendship, racism, sexuality, and coming-of-age. Twelve-year-old...
2019 CSK–Virginia Hamilton Award Acceptance by Pauletta Brown Bracy
Good Coretta-Scott-King-Book-Awards-Breakfast-Sunday morning! I stand before you as the fifth recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in the category of practitioner and in the company of the distinguished colleagues who have come before me: Dr. Henrietta Mays Smith, Demetria Tucker, Deborah D. Taylor, and Dr....
Review of Inventing Victoria
Inventing Victoriaby Tonya BoldenMiddle School Bloomsbury 264 pp. g1/19 978-1-68119-807-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-808-8 $12.59Set during the post-Reconstruction era, this novel offers an intriguing view of nineteenth-century African American upper-echelon society. Fourteen-year-old Essie longs to escape her miserable life in Savannah, Georgia, where her mother earns her living as a prostitute....
Review of Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Story
Hammering for Freedom: The William Lewis Storyby Rita Lorraine Hubbard; illus. by John HolyfieldPrimary Lee & Low 32 pp. g9/18 978-1-60060-969-5 $17.95William “Bill” Lewis (1810?–1896) was born into slavery in Tennessee on a plantation owned by Colonel Lewis. As a boy toiling alongside his mother, aunt, and siblings in the...