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Review of All That It Ever Meant

All That It Ever Meant by Blessing MusaririHigh School    Norton    192 pp.1/23    9781324030959    $18.95In the aftermath of her mother’s death, fourteen-year-old Mati and her family struggle to cope with their grief. Baba, Mati’s father, has trouble connecting with his three children. Seventeen-year-old Chichi rebels and engages in risky behavior. Ten-year-old...
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Review of The Melancholy of Summer

The Melancholy of Summer by Louisa OnoméHigh School    Feiwel    320 pp.5/23    9781250823564    $19.99e-book ed.  9781250823571    $11.99In this absorbing novel, a Nigerian Canadian girl navigating tumultuous circumstances learns to trust friends and family. Suspected of fraud, her parents have become fugitives; Summer first lives on her own and then at the...

Review of We Are Here

We Are Here by Tami Charles; illus. by Bryan CollierPreschool, Primary    Orchard/Scholastic    40 pp.1/23    9781338752045    $18.99Charles says in her appended note that this book, its companion All Because You Matter (rev. 11/20), and a planned forthcoming title are intended to “affirm, celebrate, and confirm the power and greatness that lie...
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Review of A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington

A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders; illus. by Byron McCrayPrimary, Intermediate    Holt    40 pp.11/22    9781250779502    $19.99e-book ed. 9781250906106    $10.99This necessary backstory of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom illuminates the significant...

Review of Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life

Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney; illus. by the author Intermediate     Little, Brown    160 pp. 1/23    9780316383851    $17.99 Reflecting on some memorable moments of his life, celebrated author-illustrator Pinkney offers an intimate look back to his childhood in this poignant, posthumously published memoir. The book opens...

Review of On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison

On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison by Jerdine Nolen; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary, Intermediate    Wiseman/Simon    48 pp.    g 9/22    978-1-5344-7852-7    $18.99 e-book ed.  978-1-5344-7853-4    $10.99 This picture-book biography of writer Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford), by the team behind Freedom Bird (rev. 1/20), pays homage...

Review of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy; illus. by Janelle Washington Primary, Intermediate    Roaring Brook    64 pp.    g 8/22    978-1-250-22095-0    $19.99 This powerful picture-book biography reverently portrays the life of Mamie Till-Mobley (1921–2003), whose defiant act of bravery following the 1955...
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Review of Twice as Perfect

Twice as Perfect by Louisa OnoméHigh School    Feiwel    416 pp.   g7/22    978-1-250-82350-2    $18.99e-book ed.  978-1-250-82351-9    $10.99While busy, high-achieving seventeen-year-old Nigerian Canadian high-school senior Adanna Nkwachi helps to plan her cousin’s traditional wedding to a Nigerian superstar, she is also dealing with her own feelings for two totally different boys....
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Review of The Deep Blue Between

The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna AttahMiddle School, High School    Carolrhoda Lab    256 pp.    g3/22    978-1-7284-4288-4    $18.99This novel (first published in the U.K. in 2020) offers a compelling view of West African history as a backdrop for a story of sibling bonding and coming of age. In 1892, ten-year-old...
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