July2Age 16 by Rosena Fung. Annick PressDrama and Destiny (Suitehearts) by Claire Kann. HarperCollinsNot About a Boy by Myah Hollis. HarperTeenThe Second Chance of Darius Logan by David Walker. Scholastic PressWe Don’t Have Time for This by Brianna Craft. Disney Hyperion 9How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean. Little, BrownIt’s Only a Game by Kelsea Yu. Bloomsbury YAA Magic Fierce and Bright by Memant Nayak. Simon and… Read More July Releases
A friend of mine posted on Facebook, ‘Happy 15 Days after Juneteenth”. Should freedom really be a matter of perspective? Can we really be a free country if some can feel comfortable driving with a police car behind them while others are afraid for their lives? Are our liberties truly intact if we allow some… Read More Free to Be
I keep wondering where we’ve gone. My community of kidlit activists, my Diversity JEDI (Cynthia Leitich Smith, 2015) is scattered. I don’t know if I’m the first to reflect on this publicly, I know I’ve lamented with several friends about the loss I feel. No flowers, no celebratory dinner, or a ‘thank you for your… Read More A Very Hot Monday in June
I’ve been reading Typecasting of the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen. Stuart Ewen is a professor of film and media studies at Hunter College. As a young man, in 1964 and early 1965, Ewen was a field secretary for the civil rights organization the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Elizabeth… Read More Typcasting: Remarking on the Content
I’m trying to figure out why the publisher, Open Arms, is using a simian in the book El sueño de mirabel/Mirabel’s Dreams. Here’s the publisher’s description of the book. This is the story of Mirabel, a 24-year-old woman who left her home in Nigeria because of the difficulties in her country and managed to reach… Read More The Persistence of Monkeys
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