Islamophobia: Deal With it in the Name of Peace by Safia Saleh
Islamophobia: Deal With it in the Name of Peace by Safia Saleh, illustrated by Hana Shafi Lorimer Books (U.S. Publication Date) Today's kids have lived their whole lives in a […]
Islamophobia: Deal With it in the Name of Peace by Safia Saleh, illustrated by Hana Shafi Lorimer Books (U.S. Publication Date) Today's kids have lived their whole lives in a […]
The Awakening of Malcolm X : A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson. No one […]
The Dreaming: Waking Hours #6 by G. Willow Wilson Illustrated by Nick Robles and Javier Rodriguez DC Comics As life gets back to something almost like normal for Lindy, sorceress Heather After finds herself plunged into a waking nightmare of her own! The cruel creature known as Puck is stalking her, and no being she […]
The Boy Who Met a Whale by Nizrana Farook Nosy Crow From the author of The Girl Who Stole an Elephant comes another brilliant escapade. A thrilling adventure set in fictional Sri Lanka, jam-packed with peril and kidnap and a huge blue whale! Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat […]
City of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda Disney-Hyperion/Rick Riordan Presents Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD, an adventure based on ancient Mesopotamian mythology written by Sarwat Chadda, author of the Ash Mistry series. Characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh populate this high-stakes contemporary adventure in which all of Manhattan is […]
Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies by DK Penguin Random House/Dorling Kindersley Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciated. No longer. Delve into the unique, inspiring, and world-changing history of Black people. Black leaders, writers, civil rights activists, scientists, and more have influenced, inspired, and changed the societies we live in. This history book’s pages are […]
Maryam's Magic: The Story of Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani by Megan Reid Illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray As a little girl, Maryam Mirzakhani was spellbound by stories. She loved reading in Tehran’s crowded bookstores, and at home she'd spend hours crafting her own tales on giant rolls of paper. Maryam loved school, especially her classes in […]
We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya #2) by Hafsah Faizal Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux The second book in the Sands of Arawiya duology by the masterful Hafsah Faizal—the follow-up to the smash New York Times bestselling novel We Hunt the Flame. Darkness surged in his veins. Power bled from her bones. The battle on Sharr is over. […]
Rebel Girls Lead: 25 Tales of Powerful Women Simon & Schuster/Rebel Girls Rebel Girls Lead: 25 Tales of Powerful Women celebrates the incredible and inspiring stories of 25 women leaders in politics, business, sports, activism, and more, all written in fairy tale form. It is part of the award-winning Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series. […]
Rise of the Red Hand by Olivia Chadha Erewhon A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A street rat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia. The South Asian […]
The Poetry of Secrets by Gordon Cambria Scholastic As a young woman in 1481, Trujillo, Spain, Isabel should be overjoyed that the alguacil of the city wants to marry her, especially since she and her family are conversos -- Jews forced to convert to Catholicism -- leaving them low in the hierarchy of the new […]
The Magical Reality of Nadia by Bassem Youssef and Catherine R. Daly Illustrated by Douglas Holgate Scholastic Nadia loves fun facts. Here are a few about her: She collects bobbleheads -- she has 77 so far. She moved from Egypt to America when she was six years old. The hippo amulet she wears is ancient...as […]