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View ArticleBook Review: Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book...
Publisher’s description A young reader’s edition of Candacy Taylor’s acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers. Overground Railroad chronicles the history of...
View ArticleBook Review: When the World Turned Upside Down by K. Ibura
Publisher’s description What do you do when the world shuts down? A heartwarming story of friendship and overcoming adversity in a time of COVID, When the World Turns Upside Down is about community,...
View ArticleBook Review: A Comb of Wishes by Lisa Stringfellow
Publisher’s description Set against the backdrop of Caribbean folklore, Lisa Stringfellow’s spellbinding middle grade debut tells of a grieving girl and a vengeful mermaid and will enchant readers who...
View ArticleBook Review: Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
Publisher’s description Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New...
View ArticleBook Review: Katie the Catsitter: Best Friends for Never written by Colleen...
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View ArticleBook Review: The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
Publisher’s description A new instant-classic fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear, by Kelly Barnhill, winner of the Newbery Medal for The...
View ArticleBook Review: Worser by Jennifer Ziegler
Publisher’s description A bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turned upside down. William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a...
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