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Friendly Competition?

May 2019


Student Voices
6th Annual Student Voices Project


Features
How I Found God in Competitive Sport by Jon Watts
The Hope for Collaboration over Competition by Mark Pratt-Russum
The Invisible Damage of Competition by Mary Jo Klingel


Poetry
Always the Challenge to Be Patient by Charles Bunner


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Among Friends, Forum, News, Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Milestones, Classifieds, Meeting Listings


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 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 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 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 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 Reviewed by Anna Carolyn McCormally

Phyllis Hoge

Hoge—Phyllis Hoge, 91, on August 26, 2018, in Albuquerque, N.M. Phyllis was born on November 15, 1926, in Elizabeth, N.J.,… Staff

Joseph Soloman Levinger

Levinger—Joseph Soloman Levinger, 96, of Slingerlands, N.Y., on October 25, 2018. Joe was born on November 14, 1921, in New… Staff

Daniel Levinson

Levinson—Daniel Levinson, 91, on July 26, 2017, in Tempe, Ariz. Dan was born on April, 23, 1926, in Chicago, Ill.… Staff

William H. Powell

Powell—William H. Powell, 70, on September 26, 2017, in Casa Grande, Ariz. Bill was born on January 7, 1947, in… Staff

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