ROOTS OF RAP: 16 BARS ON THE 4 PILLARS OF HIP-HOP written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Frank Morrison. Carole Boston Weatherford has done it again! Her books sing. Some dance. This one, Roots of Rap, do both.…
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The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman Kirkus Review’s bottom line says it all – “A blisteringly beautiful book.” Two sisters, eleven-year-old Viji and her younger sister, Rukku, escape from their abusive father and attempt to survive in the big chaotic…
GIRLS of the CRESCENT – TWO SISTERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Girls of the Crescent is verb and a noun. As a noun Girls of the Crescent website is a resource for readers – also teachers, librarians, and parents – looking for a good book that accurately features Muslim teens, especially…
Nerdy Book Club Winners: Poetry plus Novels in Verse — drum roll please!
Need a great book to begin your New Year? Look no further. Here is the Nerdy Book Club winners of poetry including novels-in-verse – Blood Water Paint was reviewed here on Pirate Tree last month – take a look. It’s…
A Most Beautiful Gift – Give Someone a Book this holiday season
Give a book to a child, to a library, school or public. Put one in a Little Free Library! Take time to read with a child. Or an elder. Laugh together. Find hidden pictures together. Anticipate what will happen with…
Thanks to all our readers who speak out, stand up, and work for equity for all
Thankful for readers and librarians and bookstores and teachers and parents and grandparents—all who make our world of readers! Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
National Native American Indian Heritage Month — these books rock!
ReadBrightly.com recently posted a terrific list of books that show contemporary Native Americans celebrating who they are – their history, their culture, their beliefs.I am hopeful that our school’s curriculum will change and include a more honest and contemporary inclusion…
BLOOD WATER PAINT
“She has to ask herself—and women have asked themselves this question for centuries—would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something?” —Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough This debut…
Thank You is about gratitude
THE THANK YOU BOOK written by Mary Lyn Ray and illustrated by Stephanie Graegin is a gentle whimsical journey of being more “right now” aware of life’s surprises, gifts, and blessings – for a child, for you. The THANK YOU…
ONE TRUE WAY by Shannon Hitchcock
Coming out in the 1970’s was not safe and certainly not accepted. Girls who liked girls were not only considered weird or strange, but even immoral or mentally ill. Usually their choice was to change, pretend to change, or remain…