Farming and Food

May 2023

May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Fighting for Yes!: The Story of Disability Rights Activist Judith Heumann

By Maryann Cocca-Leffler, illustrated by Vivien Mildenberger. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2022. 48 pages. $19.99/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages…

Reviewed by Julia Copeland

May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

By Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Alexandria Neonakis. Millbrook Press, 2023. 32 pages. $20.99/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–10. This…

Reviewed by Eileen Redden

May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Front Country

By Sara St. Antoine. Chronicle Books, 2022. 332 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $11.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. Have you ever…

Reviewed by Tom and Sandy Farley

May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

Peace Is a Chain Reaction: How World War II Japanese Balloon Bombs Brought People of Two Nations Together

By Tanya Lee Stone. Candlewick Press, 2022. 176 pages. $24.99/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 10–12. Tanya Lee Stone takes…

Reviewed by Ken Jacobsen

May 2023 Books: Young Friends Bookshelf

The Sky We Shared

By Shirley Reva Vernick. Cinco Puntos Press, 2022. 256 pages. $22.95/hardcover or eBook. Recommended for ages 11–17. In this book,…

Reviewed by Judith Wright Favor

May 2023 Book Reviews

May 2023 Young Friends Bookshelf

Young Friends Bookshelf Eileen Redden

Muireann Brennan

Brennan—Muireann Brennan, 62, on November 5, 2022, at home in Atlanta, Ga. Muireann was born on November 21, 1959, to…

Beth-Ann Buitekant

Buitekant—Beth-Ann Buitekant, 76, on August 22, 2022, in Atlanta, Ga. Beth-Ann was born on February 15, 1946, to Rubin and…

Martha Jane Menk

Menk—Martha Jane Menk, 71, on August 3, 2022, peacefully, following a prolonged journey with Parkinson’s disease, in Richmond, Va. Martha…

John Roberts Stabler

Stabler—John Roberts Stabler, 89, on January 27, 2022, at the Phoenix at Tucker, an assisted living facility in Tucker, Ga.…
QuakerSpeak

QuakerSpeak, May 2023

Making my own Quaker-adjacent community. Rebecca Hamilton-Levi