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Review of Rap It Up!

Rap It Up! by Carole Boston Weatherford and Primary    Holt    32 pp.3/25    9781250833570    $18.99“My mom claims I was rapping before I could speak. / Matter of fact, I freestyled eight days a week.” A young MC serves as the narrator of this ode to hip-hop, which introduces readers to rap...

Review of My Daddy Is a Cowboy

My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary    Abrams    48 pp. 6/24    9781419760815    $18.99 e-book ed.  9781647006280    $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a close...
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Review of Radiant

Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonIntermediate    Dutton    320 pp.1/25    9780593855782    $18.99e-book ed.  9780593855799    $10.99In this historical novel in verse, fifth grader Cooper Dale is growing up near Pittsburgh in 1963 and grappling with issues concerning her identity as a Black child attending a predominantly white school. While her family encourages her...
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Review of Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood

Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood edited by Leah JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School    Freedom Fire/Disney    320 pp.11/24    9781368098960    $18.99e-book ed.  9781368098984    $10.99Common early adolescent issues and those particular to Black girls are covered with depth and heart in this short story collection by fifteen authors. The protagonists are all...
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Review of Will’s Race for Home

Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker RhodesIntermediate    Little, Brown    208 pp.1/25    9780316299336    $17.99e-book ed.  9780316299541    $9.99In this coming-of-age Western, twelve-year-old Will Samuels and his father, a stoic, formerly enslaved man, leave their sharecropper home in Texas for the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Along the way, they encounter Caesar,...
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Review of Danilo Was Here

Danilo Was Here by Tamika BurgessIntermediate, Middle School    Harper/HarperCollins    304 pp.1/25    9780063159662    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063159686    $8.99In this fast-paced historical novel, Danilo is a Black Panamanian living in a neighborhood destroyed by the United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989. Since the first night of the attack, life has become more...

Review of A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story

A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon; illus. by London Ladd Primary    Philomel    40 pp. 9/24    9780593525913    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780593525920    $11.99 This picture-book biography begins with Evers-Williams (b. 1933), the first woman to chair the NAACP full time, speaking at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration...
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Review of Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—the First Lady of Children’s Music

Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—the First Lady of Children’s Music by Tracy N. Todd; illus. by Eleanor DavisPrimary    Chronicle    48 pp.1/25    9781452170640    $19.99Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) longed to make music from the time she was a little girl growing up in the segregated Bronzeville community of Chicago....

My Daddy Is a Cowboy

The first time I read My Daddy Is a Cowboy, I was drawn to C. G. Esperanza’s stunning illustrations and the sweetness of the narrative by Stephanie Seales. I love a good father-daughter story, and this one comes wrapped in an incredibly beautiful package. On subsequent readings, I only found...
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