STAND UP and SING! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice Written by Susanna Reich, Illustrated by Adam Gustavson Foreword by Peter Yarrow “If you despair, what happens to the many, many people like myself who look to…
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CREEK-FINDING A TRUE STORY, a book for EARTH DAY
CREEKFINDING A TRUE STORY about a true kind of treasure, for Earth Day — Buried treasure … who doesn’t want to read a good book about buried treasure? This marvelous picture book, CREEKFINDING, A TRUE STORY written by Jacqueline Briggs…
STRANGE FRUIT, BILLIE HOLIDAY AND THE POWER OF A PROTEST SONG
Here is a WOW picture book, and so timely: STRANGE FRUIT, BILLIE HOLIDAY AND THE POWER OF A PROTEST SONG a book for all ages written by Gary Golio and illustrated by Charlotte Riley-Webb. What a woman, Billie Holiday. And…
PLAYING FOR THE DEVIL’S FIRE, a debut novel by Phillippe Diederich
Playing for the Devil’s Fire, written by Phillippe Diederich and published by Cinco Puntos Press, is a brutal but gripping story that tells the struggle of 13 year-old Libero “Boli” Flores to save his family and his beloved town from…
Applause Please! Cybil’s Poetry Winner Is ….
THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY Students becoming activists! What an unusual and thoughtful novel in verse for middle-grade readers, written by Laura Shovan, and to give you a “taste” of this delightful book, just listen: “Eighteen kids, one…
THE SOUND OF ALL THINGS by Myron Uhlberg
The Sound of All Things is an award-winning picture book written by Myron Uhlberg as he remembers, nearly eighty years later, what it was like to be a “hearing” child describing to his deaf parents “the sound of all things.”…
Missing Nimama, a child’s story of missing her “disappeared” mother
This picture book tells the story of Kateri, a young Cree girl who is motherless and being raised by her grandmother, Nohkom. Kateri’s story is based on the stories of the missing indigenous women of Canada and the U.S. Told…
TALKING LEAVES — SEQUOYAH by Joseph Bruchac
TALKING LEAVES by Joseph Bruchac In the mid-1800’s a Cherokee man known as Sequoyah, invented an entire writing system for his people. The Cherokee still to this day use his system. Sequoyah realized the power and importance of keeping one’s…
THUNDER BOY JR. AND National American Indian Heritage Month – November!
THUNDER BOY JR. by Sherman Alexie Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month – all November – by celebrating Native American literature. Ask your library or bookstore for books written by Native Americans. See through their eyes. Listen to their voices.…
I DISSENT, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
I DISSENT, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark “Speak purposefully and carry a big legal pad. . . . Read this and be inspired to work for justice through the legal system.” (Kirkus Reviews) About this picture book biography of…