Five questions for Vashti Harrison
Big by Vashti Harrison; Little, Brown.  

Self-empowerment and self-love
I Have a Question by Andrew Arnold; Roaring Brook.
The Loud Librarian by Jenna Beatrice, illus. by Erika Lynne Jones; Atheneum.
Woo Hoo! You’re Doing Great! by Sandra Boynton; Little, Brown.
A Girl Can Build Anything by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo and Pat Zietlow Miller, illus. by Keisha Morris; Viking.
Patchwork by Matt de la Peña, illus. by Corinna Luyken; Putnam.
Clover by Nadine Robert, illus. by Qin Leng, trans. from French by Nick Frost and Catherine Ostiguy; Milky Way.
Something Wild by Molly Ruttan; Paulsen/Penguin.

Diverse stories for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf; Harper/HarperCollins.
Thirst by Varsha Bajaj; Paulsen/Penguin.
My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner; Atheneum.
You Are Here: Connecting Flights edited by Ellen Oh; Allida/HarperCollins.
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang; Scholastic.
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang; Simon.

Their own stories
Akim Aliu: Dreamer by Akim Aliu with Greg Anderson Elysée, illus. by Karen De la Vega and Marcus Williams; Graphix/Scholastic.
My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement by Willie Mae Brown; Farrar.
In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee; First Second.
The In-Between by Katie Van Heidrich; Aladdin/Simon.

From the May 2023 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.