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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…

Reviewed by Gail Whiffen

Gene Elaine Stimart Beardsley

Beardsley—Gene Elaine Stimart Beardsley, 85, of Gainesville, Fla., suddenly, on April 8, 2019, of unforeseen complications during heart valve replacement…

Lois Elizabeth Day

Day—Lois Elizabeth Day, 92, on September 11, 2018, at home in New Port Richey, Fla., under hospice care, with her…
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