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on It’s Personal, and the hilarious Jedlie on Reading With Your Kids! Smith on GOOD NEWS, the wonderful Loraine Ballard Morrill on the iHeart Radio Philadelphia Community Podcast, the incredible book advocate and author Charnaie Gordon on Here Wee Read, educator extraordinaire Gary R. Podcast Chats: It was such a pleasure to chat with Black Women Stitch icon Lisa Woolfork on Stitch Please, the warm and insightful Danielle M. The lovely school and library team at Random House has created a fun and dynamic educator’s guide for OPERATION SISTERHOOD along with two beautiful book buddies! It’s available for download here. Honoured to have two titles on the CCBC Choices 2023 Recommended Book List, SAVING EARTH, and MAE MAKES A WAY!īEST OF THE YEAR! Honoured to see THE SUN DOES SHINE on the Best of the Year Lists from School Library Journal and the Chicago Public Library ! Thank you to all who read and shared.
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No Voice Too Small by Lindsay H. Metcalf5/21/2023 Jazz Jennings insisted, as a transgirl, on playing soccer with the girls' team. Mari Copeny demanded clean water in Flint. Publishers Synopsis: Fans of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices will love meeting fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States. Published by Charlesbridge Publishing on 2020 The book’s YouTube channel includes video resources such as poetry readings and writing lessons by contributing poets such as Janet Wong, G. The biographical poems are written by poets who share some aspect of the young activist’s identity poets’ bios and connections are included at the back of the book. In this picture book collection, readers are introduced to 14 young people using a variety of activism strategies to make the world more just, including Ziad Ahmed, Samirah Horton, Jazz Jennings, Judy Adams, Adora Svitak, Viridiana Sanchez Santos, and Marley Dias.Įach biographical profile consists of a poem accompanied by a paragraph about the young person’s activism, a portrait, and a related activism tip. These ending lines from the poem “Jasilyn Charger: Water Protector” by Joseph Bruchac in No Voice Too Small offer a glimpse into the rich simplicity of a book brimming with examples of young people’s activism, beautiful poetry, and teaching possibilities.
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Marbles by ellen forney5/21/2023 “Graphic medicine follows the point of view of the patient and caregiver over narratives espoused by the medical establishment. “I chose these stories because they foreground mental health concerns,” said Garner. Given the topic, Garner’s exhibit will launch on May 1 to coincide with the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Month. Demonstrating a transition from sick to well was key, and often required a sequential graphic, and comics were perfect for that! Medicine manufacturers could use these comic conventions to create drama, and this was a crucial element in closing a sale.” “My own research, in part, looks at the ways these ads created visual spectacles in the almanacs and trade card ads they produced, using comic elements like sequential panels and word balloons to move through time. “The rise of comics occurred at approximately the same moment in the 19th century that patent medicine manufacturers were starting to reinvent their advertising campaigns,” said Garner. The exhibit, “ Between the Lines: Graphic Narratives from Drew’s Chesler Collection,” explores how graphic narratives engage with issues of embodiment, identity, health, and wellness, and is informed by Garner’s dissertation research on patent medicine advertising, which use techniques from comic storytelling to their marketing.
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Sold by zana muhsen5/21/2023 The subsequent story was front-page news, and as a result of the ensuing publicity, Zana was allowed to leave by the authorities, on condition she left her son behind as they would not issue him with a passport. In 1987, after a British-based campaign by the girls' mother, Miriam, the Observer sent a reporter and a photographer to the Yemen to find the sisters. For eight years, the sisters lived as peasants' wives in a remote mountain village, where a medieval way of life still existed and where there was virtually no contact with the developed world. It was only when they arrived in the Yemen that they discovered their father had sold each of them into marriage to 13-year-old boys, for $2,500 apiece. The young teenagers couldn't wait to start the holiday. The stories he told them of the Yemen's sunshine, camel-riding, palm-fringed beaches, and sand dunes must have made surreal contrasts to the simple life they were living above a fish and chip shop in working-class Birmingham. It was summer, and the girls' father, Yemen-born Muthan Muhsen, promised them a six-week holiday with their Yemeni relatives. British-born Zana Muhsen was 15, and her sister Nadia was 14.
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If women rose rooted5/21/2023 Part autobiography, part mythical Celtic storytelling, part exploration of contemporary women deeply rooted in the land and part guide for shaping our journey for the future. If Women Rose Rooted is a beautifully written, honest and moving read. The book arrived, I had a stack of books to read already but felt called to start If Women Rose Rooted and I couldn’t put it down. I was drawn to purchase it and find out for myself. It had consistently great reviews with 5 stars. I am deep in a process of researching, studying, learning and self-development when If Women Rose Rootedcaught my eye. I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it.’ ~ Manda Scott, Boudica and Into The Fire This is an anthem for all we could be, an essential book for this, the most critical of recent times. Truly, it’s mind-blowing in the most profound and exhilarating sense.
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Grealy autobiography of a face5/21/2023 I don’t remember what drew me to the book, but I’m pretty sure it was simply the intriguing title and the prologue, “Pony Party.” When Autobiography of a Face was published in 1994, I was 23 years old and flailing around in my own little post-college world. I’d found myself in Lucy Grealy’s sentences. Skin grafts, bone grafts, tissue expanders, chemotherapy, and radiation, these are all physically painful, but it was the emotional agony that resonated with me: her throbbing, metaphysical pain.Īutobiography is a memoir about loss on multiple levels, but for me back then, it was simply about girlhood the insecure, low self-esteem, failer-of-every-Presidential-Physical-Fitness-Test-ever, misfit kind of girlhood I’d experienced too. In it, she dissects the pain endured by multiple surgeries to her face as a result of a Ewing’s Sarcoma discovered when she was just nine years old. Was this a metaphor for what Grealy’s book has meant to me? Why has it haunted me since I first read it in 1994?Īutobiography of a Face is an excavation of Grealy’s soul. How, I wondered, could I have allowed one of the most important books in my life to vanish? I found one copy, a reprint, and the last one on the shelf at a local, independent bookstore. I couldn’t find my 1994 edition in my own bookshelves (had I loaned it to someone?), I went to the Saratoga Springs library and it was listed as “lost” in the catalog. Just when I needed it, when I’d planned to write about Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, for “Books We Can’t Quit,” the book quits me.
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Insignificant Others by Stephen McCauley5/21/2023 McCauley’s writing, as always, is suffused with wry observations about that “stuff” – wit writ small that builds, page by page, into both complex social satire and a surprisingly sentimental story. Richard is trying to mask his insecurities with obsessive gym workouts, all while juggling the demands of a resentful sister, a married friend’s reluctance to confront his own health problems, and travails at work involving both a young coworker’s emotional brinkmanship and a hostile supervisor’s discriminatory behavior: the stuff of life. That said, McCauley’s spirited sixth novel, narrated by 50-something Richard with droll insight, is about much more than sex, fidelity and unusual quasi-marital arrangements. Meanwhile, Conrad’s flings while traveling as an art consultant are getting more serious, and Richard’s involvement with a deeply closeted married man is becoming more complicated. Together for eight years, they’ve settled into a regulated domesticity, accepting ongoing infidelities with “insignificant others” but for the most part drifting along in a sort of jaded compatibility. On the surface, Conrad and Richard are everybody’s ideal of a comfortable queer couple. Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $25 hardcover. “Insignificant Others,” by Stephen McCauley.
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Dark universe galouye5/21/2023 Gimmicky, weak characters, weak sense of place (I skipped the ~7 minute introduction by Dawkins, however, because it was rather boring and not very well spoken.) The story is perhaps a bit "dry" and involves a lot of rushing around, and the interpersonal relationships seem a bit contrived, but is very interesting in the different perspective it provides, more than for its storyline. The book has a philosophical look at light versus darkness (in both a literal sense and in a spiritual one) and this is also quite well-done: it doesn't feel at all patronizing or moralizing. While the premise might be a bit on the edge of believability (how many generations, really, would it take for humans to forget they ever could see?), the author is very consistent - there are no "slip ups" in referencing any aspect of sight. Not only is this a very well imagined world where nobody can see - it is a world where humans have lost any understanding of sight even the verb "to see" is lost to language. Literal & spiritual examination of darkness
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He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married. She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her " Mistress Mary, quite contrary". After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her.
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Lumberjanes, Vol. 1 by N.D. Stevenson5/20/2023 And with the talent of acclaimed cartoonist Noelle Stevenson, talented newcomer Grace Ellis writing, and Brooke Allen on art, this is going to be a spectacular series that you won't want to miss. And with the talent of acclaimed cartoonist Noelle Stevenson, talented newcomer Grace Ellis writing, and Brooke Allen on art, this is going to be a spectacular. ND Stevenson is the award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator of Nimona and The Fire Never Goes Out, the co-creator of Lumberjanes, and was the. It's Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Gravity Falls and features five butt-kicking, rad teenage girls wailing on monsters and solving a mystery with the whole world at stake. Five best friends spending the summer at Lumberjane scout feating yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons.what's not to love?įriendship to the max Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five best pals determined to have an awesome summer together.and they're not gonna let any insane quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way Not only is it the second title launching in our new BOOM Box imprint but LUMBERJANES is one of those punk rock, love-everything-about-it stories that appeals to fans of basically all excellent things. |