A year and a half ago, we featured Kate Schatz in an interview about her first book, Rad Women A-Z, along with a guest post about one of her favorite books. Now Kate is back with a new book, Rad…
Author: J.L. Powers
J.L. Powers is the author of the y.a. novels This Thing Called the Future and The Confessional, and editor the forthcoming anthology That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone.
Nancy Bo Flood on Soldier Sister, Fly Home
Today, we want to celebrate our own Nancy Bo Flood’s newest book, Soldier Sister, Fly Home! The book follows in the footsteps of many of Nancy’s books, exploring themes related to war, as well as setting in the Navajo culture of…
Radical by E.M. Kokie
The Pirate Tree’s own E.M. Kokie has a new book out (ta-da!) so we wanted to celebrate it here. Radical–the story of one girl finding and losing her identity in a radical community of survivalists–is one of those books that you have…
Picture Book Roundup-August 2016
Maggie McGillicuddy’s Eye for Trouble by Susan Hughes and illustrations by Brooke Kerrigan is a delightful story of a friendship between an elderly woman and a young boy who lives next door. The subject of the book is not “race”…
Juna’s Jar
Juna’s Jar Written by Jane Bahk. Illustrated by Florence Hoshino. Lee and Low Books, 2015 New Voices Award recipient. Guest Review by Linda Boyden (see bio below) What can be kept in an empty kimchi jar? Almost anything, according…
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
Guest Post by Linda Boyden Too often, history is written by the victors. Nowhere is this truer than in regards to the histories of the indigenous people of America, but Joseph Marshall III’s new middle grade novel, In the Footsteps…
A review of Reproductive Rights: Who Decides?
Although the title of Reproductive Rights: Who Decides by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein frames the book as a political one examining the pro-life/pro-choice (or anti-abortion/pro-abortion) divide in the United States, this young adult non-fiction book ends up being much more than that.…
Joelito’s Big Decision: A Bilingual Book About Living Wages
Joelito’s Big Decision/La Gran Decision de Joelito by Ann Berlak with illustrations by Daniel Camacho In this bilingual book for kids, Ann Berlak tackles some very big topics: corporate greed, living wages for workers, and workers’ protests. She tells…
Into The Dangerous World by Julie Chibbaro
What is art’s place in the world? How does it help people cope with death and pain? How is it a force for healing–and can it be a force for destruction as well? What do we mean by art–is it…
The Shark Curtain by Chris Scofield
I was enormously privileged to be the editor for Chris Scofield’s The Shark Curtain, which came out on the Akashic YA imprint Black Sheep earlier this year. The moment I read this book, I understood that Scofield was doing something…