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