Climate Activism and Sustainability

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May 2022

May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor

By Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs, illustrated by Michael Garland. Getty Publications, 2021. 44 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 6–9.…

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

One Bee Too Many

By Andrés Pi Andreu, illustrated by Kim Amate. DragonFruit, 2021. 32 pages. $16.95/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 7–10. This picture…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Mighty Inside

By Sundee T. Frazier. Levine Querido, 2021. 248 pages. $17.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. Mighty Inside is a…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story

By Kenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro. Clarion Books, 2021. 384 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. This is an…

Reviewed by Vickie LeCroy

May 2022 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

By Robert H. Mayer. NewSouth Books, 2021. 224 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $12.95/eBook. Recommended for ages 12–18. Unsung adolescent heroes of the…

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

Richard Paul “Dick” Bansen

Bansen—Richard Paul “Dick” Bansen, 97, on January 7, 2022, peacefully, at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, a Quaker continuing care retirement community…

Linda J. Lyman

Lyman—Linda J. Lyman, 87, on January 8, 2022, peacefully, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. Linda was…

Rebecca Broomell Gatchell McIlvain

McIlvain—Rebecca Broomell Gatchell McIlvain, 103, on December 29, 2021, peacefully at Foxdale Village, a Quaker retirement community in State College,…

Mary Elizabeth Otis Way

Way—Mary Elizabeth Otis Way, 90, on December 13, 2021, at Foxdale Village, a Quaker retirement community in State College, Pa.…

William Robert Young

Young—William Robert Young, 95, on December 22, 2021, peacefully with friends beside him, in Lewiston, Idaho. Bill was born on…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2022

“With more than a decade of experience with policy, I’ve learned how disappointing it can be to put your faith… Staff