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December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
By Traci Sorell, illustrated by Frané Lessac. Charlesbridge, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3–7.
Reviewed by Phila Hoopes
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together
By Andrea Tsurumi. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. 48 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–7.
Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border
By Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Sara Palacios. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2019. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook.…
Reviewed by Eileen Redden
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
When Spring Comes to the DMZ
By Uk-Bae Lee, translated by Chungyon Won and Aileen Won. Plough Publishing House, 2019. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages…
Reviewed by Julia Copeland
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story
By Marc Tyler Nobleman, illustrated by Melissa Iwai. Clarion Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–9.
Reviewed by Margaret Crompton
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
The Garden of Wisdom: Earth Tales from the Middle East
Edited by Michael J. Caduto, illustrated by Odelia Liphshiz. Green Heart Books, 2018. 158 pages. $26.95/hardcover; $19.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for…
Reviewed by Katie Green
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
By Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2019. 320 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $12.99/paperback (available March 2020); $12.59/eBook.…
Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
By Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Yevgenia Nayberg. Creston Books, 2019. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–14.
Reviewed by David Austin
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II
By Andrea Warren. Margaret Ferguson Books, 2019. 224 pages. $22.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Reviewed by Ann Birch
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA
By Brenda Woods. Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019. 208 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $8.99/paperback (available January 2020); $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and…
Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults
By Susan Kuklin. Candlewick Press, 2019. 192 pages. $19.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Reviewed by Vickie LeCroy
December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington
By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long. City Lights Publishers, 2019. 172 pages. $13.95/paperback or eBook. Recommended for…
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
December 1, 2019
Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together
December 1, 2019
Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border
December 1, 2019