Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Jeff Edwards High School Levine Querido 336 pp. g 10/22 978-1-64614-179-1 $19.99 In her debut YA novel, Cherokee writer Rogers distills two centuries of realistic intergenerational trauma into eighteen short horror stories linked by family connections. From the first story, set...
Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie; illus. by Julie Flett Primary Greystone Kids 32 pp. g 9/22 978-1-77164-807-3 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77164-808-0 $18.95 Sainte-Marie’s (Cree First Nation) 2008 song about wintertime on the Cree reserve in Alberta has here been reinterpreted as a picture...
My Town / Mi pueblo by Nicholas Solis; illus. by Luisa Uribe Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g 8/22 978-0-593-10991-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-10992-2 $10.99 This enjoyable bilingual picture book highlights cousins on each side of the U.S./Mexico border. English text narrates the U.S. (girl) cousin’s point of view,...
Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia y el huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico /Un cuento de Puerto Rico by Lesléa Newman; illus. by Elizabeth Erazo Baez; trans. into Spanish by Georgina LázaroPrimary Children’s/Lee & Low 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-89239-455-5 $19.95Newman wrote this book in the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane...