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CHILDREN’S BOOKS, WEEK OF 5-23-2022

The 1619 Project : born on the water / by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renâee Watson ; illustrated by Nikkolas Smith.
27 magic words / Sharelle Byars Moranville.
Across the rainbow bridge : stories of Norse gods and humans / Kevin Crossley-Holland ; illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love.
African icons : ten people who shaped history / Tracey Baptiste ; illustrated by Hillary D. Wilson.
Amari and the night brothers / B. B. Alston ; illustrations by Godwin Akpan.
American betiya / Anuradha D. Rajurkar.
The beak book / by Robin Page.
Beasts of prey / Ayana Gray.
Black boy joy / edited by Kwame Mbalia.
Crows : genius birds / Kyla Vanderklugt.
Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults / edited by Alice Wong.
An emotion of great delight / Tahereh Mafi.
Fallout : spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown / Steve Sheinkin.
The golden hour / Niki Smith.
The hazards of love. Book 1, Bright world / writing, art, colors, and letters by Stan Stanley.
The initial insult / Mindy McGinnis.
Josephine against the sea / Shakirah Bourne.
Kneel / Candace Buford.
The last cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera.
The last words we said / Leah Scheier.
The life I’m in / Sharon G. Flake.
Like other girls / Britta Lundin.
Living with Viola / Rosena Fung.
Make meatballs sing : the life & art of Corita Kent / words by Matthew Burgess ; pictures by Kara Kramer.
The many meanings of Meilan / by Andrea Wang.
Maybe maybe Marisol Rainey / Erin Entrada Kelly.
Meltdown : earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima / Deirdre Langeland.
The mirror season / Anna-Marie McLemore.
Monster friends / Kaeti Vandorn.
My contrary Mary / Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows.
Niänos : poems for the lost children of Chile / Marâia Josâe Ferrada ; [illustrated by] Marâia Elena Valdez ; translated by Lawrence Schimel.
Nothing fits a dinosaur / by Jonathan Fenske.
One jar of magic / Corey Ann Haydu.
The other Merlin / Robyn Schneider.
Picturing a nation : the Great Depression’s finest photographers introduce America to itself / Martin W. Sandler.
Puberty is gross but also really awesome / by Gina Loveless ; illustrated by Lauri Johnston.
Race against time : the untold story of Scipio Jones and the battle to save twelve innocent men / Sandra Neil Wallace & Rich Wallace.
RBG’s brave & brilliant women : 33 Jewish women to inspire everyone / by Nadine Epstein ; introduction and selection by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ; [illustrations by Bee Johnson].
Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party’s promise to the people / Kekla Magoon.
Rise up! : how you can join the fight against White supremacy / Crystal M. Fleming.
Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America / edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter.
Scientists : inspiring tales of the world’s brightest scientific minds / written by Isabel Thomas ; illustrated by Jessamy Hawke ; foreword by Molly Bloom.
Searching for Lottie / Susan L. Ross.
Take back the block / Chrystal D. Giles.
This is our rainbow : 16 stories of her, him, them, and us / edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby.
This will be funny someday / Katie Henry.
Tidesong / Wendy Xu.
To Night Owl from Dogfish / Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer.
Unearthed : a Jessica Cruz story / written by Lilliam Rivera ; art by Steph C. ; letters by Gabriela Downie.
Violets are blue / Barbara Dee.
Virginia Apgar / written by Dr. Sayantani DasGupta ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint.
We are artists : women who made their mark on the world / stories and illustrations by Kari Herbert.
What lives in the woods / Lindsay Currie.
When Cloud became a cloud / Rob Hodgson.
When my name was Keoko / written by Linda Sue Park.
Whistle : a new Gotham City hero / written by E. Lockhart ; illustrated by Manuel Preitano ; colors by Gabby Metzler ; letters by ALW’s Troy Peteri.
You can’t say that! : writers for young people talk about censorship, free expression, and the stories they have to tell / compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus.
Yusuf Azeem is not a hero / Saadia Faruqi.