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Category Archives: History

Review: The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson and Kelly Mellings

July 7, 2016by Janet 2 Comments

The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel by Patti LaBoucane-Benson; art by Kelly Mellings. Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication date: spring 2015 Why you need to read this graphic novel: […]

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#weneeddiversebooks, Abuse, Bullying, Canadian, Crossover, Death and Mourning, Discrimination, Diverse, Diversity, Graphic Novels, History, Racism, Racism, Social Issues

Immigration in the books of Laurence Yep

May 5, 2016by Janet Leave a comment

Looking for an immigration story? Try Laurence Yep. More recently known for the charming A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, co-written with his wife, Joanne Ryder, Laurence […]

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Detectives, Diversity, Folklore, Historical Fiction, History, middle grade, Mystery, Racism

Review: A Walk on Broken Glass

February 11, 2016by Janet 1 Comment

A Walk on Broken Glass: Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (Revised Edition) by Gloria M. Allan Granville Island Publishing Ltd., Co. source: the author (via Nafiza – I haven’t met Gloria […]

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Canadian, Historical Fiction, History

Snapshot: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

December 25, 2015by Yash 4 Comments

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that […]

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Crossover, History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Snapshots

Review: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle

December 23, 2015by Nafiza 3 Comments

Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]

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Diverse, Diversity, Historical Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Review, Review Copy, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Books of Wonder: Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian

December 10, 2015by Janet 1 Comment

Last week’s book of wonder was a picturebook about the poet Pablo Neruda. This week’s book of wonder is a picturebook biography of another real person: this time, scientist and […]

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History, picturebook

Ballads: fairy tales and music

September 10, 2015by Janet 2 Comments

I realize that my title above is a little simplistic; ballads are rather more than fairy tales set to music. I could have said that ballads are the fairy tales […]

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Fairytales, History, Music

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder, Julie Morstad (illustrator)

August 17, 2015by Nafiza 2 Comments

Hardcover, 52 pages Expected publication: August 18th 2015 by Chronicle Books Source: Publisher This book, you guys, is so very beautiful. If picturebooks are usually not your thing, I insist […]

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History, picturebook, Picturebooks, Review, Review Copy

Life goes on: characters and (non)resolution in Witness by Karen Hess

July 16, 2015by Janet 1 Comment

I was going to write about Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust, the book that introduced me to verse novels (I hadn’t known you could tell a story in poems! The […]

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Historical Fiction, History, Verse Novel

Verse Novel Review: Dust of Eden by Mariko Nagai

July 8, 2015by Nafiza Leave a comment

Hardcover, 121 pages Published March 1st 2014 by Albert Whitman & Company Source: Library  Dust of Eden focalizes on Mina Tagawa who, along with her family and other Japanese Americans, is […]

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History, Review, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

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