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May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Quiet AND Shhh…God Is in the Silence
Quiet By Tomie dePaola. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 4–8.…
Reviewed by Paul Buckley
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
How to Be a Lion
By Ed Vere. Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2018. 32 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 3 and up. Now…
Reviewed by James Foritano
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Loretta’s Gift
By Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Alea Marley. Little Bee Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4 and…
Reviewed by Anne Nydam
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Mela and the Elephant
By Dow Phumiruk, illustrated by Ziyue Chen. Sleeping Bear Press, 2018. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8.…
Reviewed by Lisa Rand
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Salamander Sky
By Katy Farber, illustrated by Meg Sodano. Green Writers Press, 2018. 32 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 4–12. This unusual…
Reviewed by Alison James
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America’s First Bookmobile
By Sharlee Glenn. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. 56 pages. $18.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. Mary Titcomb was…
Reviewed by Margaret T. Walden
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
By Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko. Carolrhoda Books, 2018. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook.…
Reviewed by Julia Copeland
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
By Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. Calkins Creek, 2018. 40 pages. $17.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 9–12. The…
Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
Amal Unbound
By Aisha Saeed. Nancy Paulsen Books, 2018. 240 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. “But life isn’t…
Reviewed by Judith Favor
May 2019: A Young Friends Bookshelf
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
By Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden. Bloomsbury YA, 2018. 288 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $13.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. In her 2016…
Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally
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Quiet AND Shhh…God Is in the Silence
May 1, 2019
How to Be a Lion
May 1, 2019
Loretta’s Gift
May 1, 2019