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Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña; illus. by Christian Robinson Primary Putnam 40 pp. g 2/21 978-0-399-54908-3 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-593-35462-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-54909-0 $10.99 Harold and the Purple Crayon meets twenty-first-century urban realism in this picture book by the Last Stop on Market Street (rev....
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...
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy by Kekla Magoon; illus. by Laura Freeman Primary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-291251-0 $17.99 “Thurgood would become the first to do a lot of things that a Black person had never done before.” When he attended Lincoln University,...
Red Stars: The Case of Viktor and Nadya’s Notebooks by Davide Morosinotto; trans. from Italian by Denise Muir Intermediate, Middle School Delacorte 432 pp. g 11/20 978-1-9848-9332-1 $19.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-9333-8 $22.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-9334-5 $10.99 Viktor and Nadya are twelve-year-old twins living in Leningrad during World War II. In...
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...
Finding a Way Home: Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage Equality by Larry Dane Brimner Middle School, High School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills & Kane 112 pp. g 11/20 978-1-62979-751-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63592-450-3 $11.99 Brimner (Twelve Days in May, rev. 1/17) presents another compelling story of civil...
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds; adapted and illus. by Danica Novgorodoff High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 208 pp. g 10/20 978-1-53444-495-9 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-4497-3 $8.99 Skillful editing and rearranging of Reynolds’s original verse novel (Long Way Down, rev. 7/17) creates room for Novgorodoff’s impressionistic ink and watercolor...
Time for Kenny by Brian Pinkney; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 1/21 978-0-06-073528-9 $17.99 Four brief stories take us through young Kenny’s day as he gets dressed, has an encounter with a monster-like vacuum cleaner, learns “no hands!” soccer skills, and resists bedtime. Pinkney’s text...
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges Primary, Intermediate Delacorte 64 pp. g 11/20 978-0-593-37852-6 $15.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-37853-3 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-37854-0 $9.99 A letter of love and care from civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to twenty-first-century children marks the sixtieth anniversary of her integration of William Frantz Elementary...
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