February 2023

Luqman-Dawson, Amina. Freewater. Little, Brown. 02/2022. 398 [+8]pp. Fiction. GRADES 4 – 7. ADDITIONAL. Trade $16.99. 978-0-316-05661-8. Employing nine different voices in her first novel, Luqman-Dawson weaves the story of runaway slave twelve-year-old Homer and [continue reading]

Lockington, Mariama J. In the Key of Us. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 04/2022. 368pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 8. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Trade $16.99. 978-0-3743-1410-1. Andi and Zora are thirteen-year-old Black girls attending a prestigious music [continue reading]

LaCour, Nina. Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle. Juanita Kaylani, Illustrator. Candlewick. 03/2022. [32]pp. Picture Book. GRADES Preschool – 3. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Trade $17.99. 978-1-5362-1151-1. A brown-skinned little girl fits “perfectly in the [continue reading]

Johnson, Dinah. H is for Harlem. April Harrison, Illustrator. Little, Brown. 07/2022. [40]pp. Non-Fiction. GRADES Kindergarten – 4. HIGH ADDITIONAL. Trade $18.99. 978-0-316-32237-9. In this alphabet, Dinah Johnson creates a guide to the important places [continue reading]

Freitas, Bethany V. Not Yet, Yeti. Maddie Frost, Illustrator. Clarion. 06/2022. [32]pp. Picture Book. GRADES Preschool – 1. ADDITIONAL. Trade $17.99. 978-0-358-45025-2. Yeti begins his first day at school ready to meet new friends, play [continue reading]

Ziefert, Harriet. Be Thankful for Trees. Brian Fitzgerald, Illus. Red Comet, 03/2022. [76]pp. Picture Book. GRADES Preschool-Kindergarten. $19.99. 978-1-63655-020-6. ADDITIONAL. Ziefert’s informative picture book tribute to trees demonstrates seven ways (food, comfort, music, art, recreation, home, [continue reading]

Tahir, Sabaa. All My Rage. Razorbill, 03/2022. 374 [+2]pp. Fiction. GRADES 9-12. $19.99. 978-0-593-20234-0. OUTSTANDING. A small desert town in California provides the backdrop for the stories of Salahudin and Noor, two seniors in high [continue reading]

Stowell, Louie. Monster in the Lake, The. Davide Ortu, Illus. Kit the Wizard Book, A; bk. 2. Walker, 02/2022. 197pp. Fiction. GRADES 3-6. $17.99. 978-1-5362-1494-9. ADDITIONAL. Kit is a novice wizard, and she and her non-wizard [continue reading]