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Booklist Review of the Day |
Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story
written and illustrated by Mavasta Honyouti, translated by Marilyn Parra
This poignant and heartfelt narrative delves into the history of one Hopi family while highlighting the resilience of the Hopi people across generations as they keep their culture and language alive despite attempts of forced assimilation. The story is an ode to Honyouti’s kwa’a (grandfather), taking readers on a journey through the cornfields where the narrator recalls cherished moments spent together.
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Current Features |
10 Questions for Georgia K. Boone
By John Charles
Georgia K. Boone is a writer, a poet, and the daughter of storytellers. Sometimes, she writes songs she may one day share. Once, in a Brooklyn community center, she read James Baldwin’s quote “You can’t tell the children there’s no hope,” and she carries those words from the city to the desert and beyond. She lives on the West Coast with her family.
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Booklist Backlist: Down Under
by Leah von Essen
Australia is a world of unexpected wonders. Many of us know of its colorful birds, herds of kangaroo, underwater wonderlands, and frightening spiders. But what do we know of what it’s truly like to live in Australia, from the outback to its bustling cities, from its riverbanks to its coasts?
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Business in Series Nonfiction
by Angela Leeper
Business is booming in series nonfiction for young readers. Publishers understand their audience, focusing on the products and brands with the most kid and teen appeal. Their variety of approaches to industry startups, technological advances, product promotion, and behind-the-scenes takes on business are sure to guarantee satisfaction.
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Top 10 Series about Business
by Angela Leeper
These 10 terrific series tell the stories behind the inspiration, manufacturing, and marketing of popular products and everyday objects.
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Trend Alert: Women Writers from Latin America
by Sara Martínez
Excellent works by Latin American women writers have been surreptitiously finding their way onto library shelves. With intriguing titles and curious covers that mask the profundity inside, these books will thrill intrepid readers who welcome discomfort, messiness, and having their tapetes movidos (their cores shaken) by challenging literature that ventures outside the zone of tidy endings.
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