tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352062612024-03-13T06:24:59.977-07:00Full Circle Literary Literary agency representing a diverse and inclusive family of authors & artists whose books break barriers and stand the test of time. www.fullcircleliterary.com @fullcirclelitBookgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111267746814351127noreply@blogger.comBlogger424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-15455001064522735282023-12-09T14:14:00.000-08:002024-01-23T20:34:43.485-08:00🌟2023 Best Books & Starred Reviews🌟<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI21VE61klDaPpYKBsTQfPvxjhSu_BVMiNuK089zGucUGQv2M9JEG3hIz77nmbzcihLCLPQYylpfH8kMkaEJ6o9saVBITNO4VATCr0TXwCMISMasiRTJ53F9dhTww7behI0PX5IBJMuiJdh9UVaHfnZcuB3FT5P3j5J-XrFw5fORVb1CD1QQNNkw/s1080/Belpre%20Awards%202024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI21VE61klDaPpYKBsTQfPvxjhSu_BVMiNuK089zGucUGQv2M9JEG3hIz77nmbzcihLCLPQYylpfH8kMkaEJ6o9saVBITNO4VATCr0TXwCMISMasiRTJ53F9dhTww7behI0PX5IBJMuiJdh9UVaHfnZcuB3FT5P3j5J-XrFw5fORVb1CD1QQNNkw/s320/Belpre%20Awards%202024.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Congratulations to our 2024 ALA Youth Media Award Winners and Best Books of the Year —it has been a great year of shining stars for our Full Circle Literary books and we’re so honored to work with such amazing creators! </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANIANA DEL MAR JUMPS IN </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Jasminne Mendez (Penguin/Dial)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BCCB Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️School Library Journal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pura Belpré Author Honor Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NCTE Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel Selection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2023 Nerdies: Novels in Verse</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE PRINCE & THE COYOTE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles, art by Amanda Mijangos (Levine Querido)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BookPage</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor Book </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BookPage Best Book of 2023, Top 10 Selection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">REMEMBERING</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Xelena Gonzalez, illustrated by Adriana M Garcia (S&S/Atheneum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">Pura Belpré Illustration Honor Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov37MZHOvRukn5THbm9_oiYZntkZ4TJ_KjcOuFYhXK3QAiU5UBOoLDxBQW3mbWuKA6eu1IZik3IZ3aNGwfI3v4Zu9yc-IDzDm5HSnlY-wX1XMwE4Rv1orGBbLb1_5qlx9Xf0JXqVnPrr1d2Xub7ym959lbIhR8c_3zx9w7-54PrvDiwr2rqUh7g/s1080/Stars%206,5,4,3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiov37MZHOvRukn5THbm9_oiYZntkZ4TJ_KjcOuFYhXK3QAiU5UBOoLDxBQW3mbWuKA6eu1IZik3IZ3aNGwfI3v4Zu9yc-IDzDm5HSnlY-wX1XMwE4Rv1orGBbLb1_5qlx9Xf0JXqVnPrr1d2Xub7ym959lbIhR8c_3zx9w7-54PrvDiwr2rqUh7g/s320/Stars%206,5,4,3.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SPANISH IS THE LANGUAGE OF MY FAMILY / EL ESPAÑOL ES LA LENGUA DE MI FAMILIA</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Michael Genhart, illustrated by John Parra (Holiday House/Neal Porter Books)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ <i>Booklist</i> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review for Spanish Edition </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review for English Edition</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editors' Choice Best Books for Youth of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Horn Book</i> Fanfare 2023 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Common Sense Media Best Book of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year in Spanish</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-cc53d2aa-509c-08b7-b8f1-850358fa1db3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ANCIENT NIGHT / NOCHE ANTIGUA </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">story and art by David Alvarez with David Bowles (Levine Querido)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️BookPage</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Horn Book </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Foreword Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️School Library Journal </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BookPag</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e Best Books of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Horn Book</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;"> Fanfare 2023</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year </span></p><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2023 Nerdies: Fiction Picture Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year in Spanish</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BREAKING TO THE BEAT</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Linda J Acevedo, illustrated by Frank Morrison (Lee & Low)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horn Book</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Booklist</i> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️School Library Journal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2024 Notable Books for a Global Society </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJvzEC7pqUMwvVOP09mw58v_wiMuAHozQlTv0adfxljhC3TBLkXw4aPmk1a45yG1uY2DEgoGN2j7s48EPGiDO48UI9EquT6RFRxGR_P_JdDL0DKsyEawykOdYl3b1KMyxze13x7WxhZlP1Uv3P21CVz81mQfCPDA5lv5GgzwzYcI0tw4upziLbw/s1080/American%20Indian%202024%20Awards.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYJvzEC7pqUMwvVOP09mw58v_wiMuAHozQlTv0adfxljhC3TBLkXw4aPmk1a45yG1uY2DEgoGN2j7s48EPGiDO48UI9EquT6RFRxGR_P_JdDL0DKsyEawykOdYl3b1KMyxze13x7WxhZlP1Uv3P21CVz81mQfCPDA5lv5GgzwzYcI0tw4upziLbw/s320/American%20Indian%202024%20Awards.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A LETTER FOR BOB </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Andrea Rogers, illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Harper/Heartdrum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Award</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Indians in Children's Literature Best Book of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AUTUMN PELTIER, WATER WARRIOR</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Bridget George (Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BCCB Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RISE: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2024 Notable Books for a Global Society</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">American Indians in Children's Literature Best Book of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Junior Library Guild Selection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SECRET OF THE MOON CONCH</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles & Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Bloomsbury)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Booklist starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Holiday Gift Guide 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; 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line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALL THAT’S LEFT TO SAY</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Emery Lord (Bloomsbury)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids IndieNext List</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kobo’s Best of the Month selection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USA Today Bestsellers List</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cosmopolitan’s “30 Young Adult Books of 2023 That You Don’t Want to Miss”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOUR FREEDOM, YOUR POWER:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Kids’ Guide to the First Amendment </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Allison Matulli with Clelia Malaspina-Gore (RP Kids)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Booklist</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WARRIOR GIRL/GUERRERA</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a novel-in-verse by Carmen Tafolla (Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Finalist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK9suZKiH7fVdk9LbOKMCmwqj9wlt6UvUB-XS2RRr1XD6JKNhjxFR44SbHIEj0QjDrEMbT4_muiTCjldbJQZFr8zQkZR3W2qO0kbVl0xuI5smq_hQn2dca8A_zztnYHGtD34WoaE_IvDq22MGv62VLhHLG-RHVg5A-6i8_wKNbLcLzYNf3eWa80A/s1080/Stars%201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK9suZKiH7fVdk9LbOKMCmwqj9wlt6UvUB-XS2RRr1XD6JKNhjxFR44SbHIEj0QjDrEMbT4_muiTCjldbJQZFr8zQkZR3W2qO0kbVl0xuI5smq_hQn2dca8A_zztnYHGtD34WoaE_IvDq22MGv62VLhHLG-RHVg5A-6i8_wKNbLcLzYNf3eWa80A/s320/Stars%201.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALMA HEAD TO TOE / ALMA DE PIES A CABEZA </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Juana Martinez-Neal (Candlewick)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year in Spanish</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOLO’S SARI-SARI STORE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Sophia Lee, illustrated by Christine Almeda (S&S/Atheneum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c293b; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EL SEÑOR PANCHO TENÍA UN RANCHO </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c293b; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by René Colato Laínez</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #2c293b; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illustrated by Elwood Smith (Holiday House)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️School Library Journal</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MARTINA HAS TOO MANY TÍAS / MARTINA TIENE MUCHAS TÍAS </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Emma Otheguy illus by Sara Palacios (S&S/Atheneum)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book of 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year in Spanish</span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b4ad926b-50a5-36e4-c1b4-f971ee595b71" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-b4ad926b-50a5-36e4-c1b4-f971ee595b71" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NOT A MONSTER</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, illustrated by Laura Gonzalez (Charlesbridge)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EAT YOUR SUPERPOWERS! HOW COLORFUL FOODS KEEP YOU HEALTHY AND STRONG</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">by Toni Buzzeo, illustrated by Serge Bloch (Penguin Workshop/RISE)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️Booklist</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></p><p><b>ROCK YOUR MOCS </b>by Laurel Goodluck, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Harper/Heartdrum) <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Book</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><b>WATER DAY/ EL DÍA DE AGUA</b> by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Olivia Sua (S&S/Atheneum) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year in Spanish</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><b>DEB HAALAND: She Persisted</b> by Laurel Goodluck (Philomel) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">American Indian Youth Literature Middle Grade Honor Book</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><b>GHOSTS OF RANCHO ESPANTO</b> by Adrianna Cuevas (Macmillan) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">2024 Edgar Award Nominee Best Juvenile Novel</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-343078534998279292023-11-14T23:29:00.000-08:002023-11-14T23:29:13.359-08:00Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Rock Your Mocs<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDdHmla37w8DU6tqeFHBfc7H0SGYtGtoGAeV8MraJVl00W0NR47J-pIPFrFaDBbYstkBAq7hLQEwt7T2wIjQQbM9OWyHvd9qSC-RL8ePRx7ln0MgKjMxSvTMfomOYP5JpOPKZOCZDth-UwNpY0D9bjTsOy74EJUT6NpyNfKRduvTFlcXz8iDjvw/s600/RockYourMocs_300x600_IG%20STORYfinal%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheDdHmla37w8DU6tqeFHBfc7H0SGYtGtoGAeV8MraJVl00W0NR47J-pIPFrFaDBbYstkBAq7hLQEwt7T2wIjQQbM9OWyHvd9qSC-RL8ePRx7ln0MgKjMxSvTMfomOYP5JpOPKZOCZDth-UwNpY0D9bjTsOy74EJUT6NpyNfKRduvTFlcXz8iDjvw/s320/RockYourMocs_300x600_IG%20STORYfinal%20(1).png" width="160" /></a></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">This month, We Need Diverse Books chatted with author Laurel Goodluck, whose </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dbe761490cb624ab602f2a5487%26id%3D3b874c12a7%26e%3D7fc5f3722a&source=gmail&ust=1699997005717000&usg=AOvVaw1Nqagozngub3hdtn8D8ocM" href="https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be761490cb624ab602f2a5487&id=3b874c12a7&e=7fc5f3722a" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: #277497; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">Rock Your Mocs</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"> is out now. Laurel was a 2019 WNDB mentee, paired with award-winner author Traci Sorell; and is now a 2024 mentor. WNDB talked with Laurel about her new book, ROCK YOUR MOCS, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (Heartdrum, October 2023), her thoughts on book bans, and much more.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Read more here, on <a href="https://diversebooks.org/laurel-goodluck-qa/" target="_blank">We Need Diverse Books Blog</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">Tell us about </strong><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: #277497; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.3s;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dbe761490cb624ab602f2a5487%26id%3Db812c9bfc4%26e%3D7fc5f3722a&source=gmail&ust=1699997005717000&usg=AOvVaw0maa4nhHgYGtYMXQKeIU_u" href="https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be761490cb624ab602f2a5487&id=b812c9bfc4&e=7fc5f3722a" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: #277497; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">Rock Your Mocs Day</a></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;">Rock Your Mocs Day began in 2011 with a young woman, a teen at the time named Jessica “Jaylyn” Atsye, from Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, declaring that moccasins shouldn’t be saved only for ceremonies and powwows. What if Indigenous people could show their Native pride and use them as everyday wear? She chose November 15, during Native American Heritage Month, as a day for Native and First Nations people to wear moccasins.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;">Rock Your Mocs Day is important because it celebrates our tribal cultures through our unique moccasins. Native people can express themselves while allowing the world to see that Native people are still here in this modern world. Unfortunately, according to a 2015 report in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Theory and Research in Social Education</em>, 87 percent of state history standards do not mention Indigenous people after the year 1900. This discrepancy perpetuates stereotypes of Native people.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;">Rock Your Mocs Day steadily grew in popularity when Jessica involved Emergence Productions to spread the celebration across the United States, Canada, and worldwide. Schoolchildren and adults began to wear their mocs on November 15. Eventually, the organizers selected an entire week in November for Rock Your Mocs events. This year, it is November 12 – 18.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;">For more information, to view the inspiring celebrations and share your events, go <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dbe761490cb624ab602f2a5487%26id%3D80068806c2%26e%3D7fc5f3722a&source=gmail&ust=1699997005717000&usg=AOvVaw1UKxAFtjukjltyUbZKXxj0" href="https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be761490cb624ab602f2a5487&id=80068806c2&e=7fc5f3722a" rel="noopener" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: #277497; font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">here</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dbe761490cb624ab602f2a5487%26id%3D1f147d15a2%26e%3D7fc5f3722a&source=gmail&ust=1699997005717000&usg=AOvVaw3r5GTUzsyL1ZTYQX4cbC8y" href="https://diversebooks.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be761490cb624ab602f2a5487&id=1f147d15a2&e=7fc5f3722a" rel="noopener" style="background: none; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; box-sizing: border-box; color: #277497; font-weight: 600; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.3s;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-70840239877846932202023-09-21T23:35:00.002-07:002023-11-02T11:41:36.581-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxITI4QM6cxVARwkVU0DAKMB_NEAoan3VA9407mT-yxgUvEMsboTZ5Q-Q3Knjo3sw6-Fny6PEEgkWw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Just in time for Halloween — Adrianna Cuevas’s A FRIGHT TO REMEMBER is the first book in the new fangtastic middle grade book series inspired by Nickelodeon’s MONSTER HIGH show!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66YTFLX0w_C1B5RfLMYB-YPZMdzijp1vXN1R98J4s9fTI_TsVvd6WB3mpvrAvfWIOwu02LUsnL3SgKEIhtAtDTI_OgfbvoGZYWQVvJNCm9j2UEM8OVRLnqa06l3MFG7JWeAXKACbLEvf3Y62OnkPlV9gwy5Q7JCn_a8p2ZNYXktFWyQn5oRMxRw/s1080/IMG_1896.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi66YTFLX0w_C1B5RfLMYB-YPZMdzijp1vXN1R98J4s9fTI_TsVvd6WB3mpvrAvfWIOwu02LUsnL3SgKEIhtAtDTI_OgfbvoGZYWQVvJNCm9j2UEM8OVRLnqa06l3MFG7JWeAXKACbLEvf3Y62OnkPlV9gwy5Q7JCn_a8p2ZNYXktFWyQn5oRMxRw/s320/IMG_1896.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>It’s Latine/x Heritage Month and #HispanicHeritageMonth 🎊 Celebrate with us as we highlight new 2023 releases by Latine creators and books now available in Spanish throughout the month.</p><p>Today we’re thrilled to showcase some of our fabulous middle grade and young adult books published this year! These new titles join the #mglit shelves with some of FCL’s backlist favorites, THE FIRST RULE OF PUNK, CONFETTI GIRL, THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF NESTOR LOPEZ, THEY CALL ME GÜERO, GABY LOST AND FOUND & many more.</p><p>What books are you reading to celebrate? Visit our <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/latine-x-authors-illustrators" target="_blank">Full Circle Lit Bookshop</a> for more great book recommendations 🎊</p><div><br /></div>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-2798570798629705852023-07-26T01:48:00.004-07:002023-07-29T12:08:27.489-07:00Summertime Reading 2023<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbOPTKDxiQcaNjUcEzBja3ES7fTnvOA8X_nZ_tD7AghcWQbNL-xilKToaaYveNwiwV5tn0xsFQi5PWrOiiMeOB3_yMfvUjJM1Z8nRynjyqSRdwg8TXLtTT0tnwXR-6NFLDyzbLgm7g3O9eLTjs4TOwa20tMh3B31HSnuXxnsbdjRHjP4bAPeJ1g/s540/IMG_8905.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbOPTKDxiQcaNjUcEzBja3ES7fTnvOA8X_nZ_tD7AghcWQbNL-xilKToaaYveNwiwV5tn0xsFQi5PWrOiiMeOB3_yMfvUjJM1Z8nRynjyqSRdwg8TXLtTT0tnwXR-6NFLDyzbLgm7g3O9eLTjs4TOwa20tMh3B31HSnuXxnsbdjRHjP4bAPeJ1g/s320/IMG_8905.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Summer is in full swing and so is summertime reading! Whether you’re planning to spend this summer on a road trip or keeping cool in the water, we have some great recommended reads for all ages. This <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/recommended-summer-reading" target="_blank">Recommended Summer Reading list </a>includes backlist favorites as well as exciting new 2023 releases. </p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-a56f6cb4-a2fc-66f4-c3a1-e682805063d2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Releases for Summer Reading!</span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/joy-takes-root/18861000?aid=12845&ean=9780593406786&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy Takes Root</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Gwendolyn Wallace, Ashleigh Corrin </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-numbers-store-sunday-adventures-series-volume-2-harold-green-iii/18832369?aid=12845&ean=9780762481576&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Numbers Store: Sunday Adventures Series</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Harold Green III, Deann Wiley </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-rainbow-park-sunday-adventures-series-volume-1-harold-green-iii/18832367?aid=12845&ean=9780762481538&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Rainbow Park: Sunday Adventures Series Volume 1</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Harold Green III, Deann Wiley </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/rani-s-remarkable-day-saadia-faruqi/19048780?aid=12845&ean=9780358536772&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rani’s Remarkable Day</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Saadia Faruqi, Anoosha Syed </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/pa-me-and-our-sidewalk-pantry-toni-buzzeo/18703194?aid=12845&ean=9781419749377&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pa, Me, and Our Sidewalk Pantry</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Toni Buzzeo, Zara González Hoang </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/lolo-s-sari-sari-store/18883652?aid=12845&ean=9781534494473&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lolo’s Sari-Sari Store</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Sophia N. Lee, Christine Almeda </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/water-day/18902712?aid=12845&ean=9781665918718&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water Day</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Margarita Engle, Olivia Sua </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/autumn-peltier-water-warrior-carole-lindstrom/17607584?aid=12845&ean=9781250795274&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Carole Lindstrom, Bridget George, Autumn Peltier </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-secret-life-of-bugs-emmanuelle-figueras/18679098?aid=12845&ean=9782408042547&listref=recommended-summer-reading" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secret Life of Bugs</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Emmanuelle Figueras, Alexander Vidal </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/aniana-del-mar-jumps-in-jasminne-mendez/18564184?aid=12845&ean=9780593531815&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aniana del Mar Jumps In</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jasminne Mendez </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/aniana-del-mar-se-avienta-aniana-del-mar-jumps-in-jasminne-mendez/20224475?aid=12845&ean=9781644736074&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aniana del Mar Se Avienta / Aniana del Mar Jumps In</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jasminne Mendez </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ghosts-of-rancho-espanto-adrianna-cuevas/18243723?aid=12845&ean=9780374390433&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Adrianna Cuevas </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/secret-of-the-moon-conch-david-bowles/18803462?aid=12845&ean=9781547609895&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secret of the Moon Conch</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles, Guadalupe García McCall </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/felice-y-la-llorona-felice-and-the-wailing-woman-diana-lopez/19962020?aid=12845&ean=9781644738047&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Felice Y La Llorona / Felice and the Wailing Woman</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Diana López </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/they-call-her-fregona-a-border-kid-s-poems-david-bowles/18206681?aid=12845&ean=9780593462584&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They Call Her Fregona: A Border Kid’s Poems</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/le-dicen-fregona-poemas-de-un-chavo-de-la-frontera-they-call-her-fregona-david-bowles/17847887?aid=12845&ean=9781644735770&listref=recommended-summer-reading&page=2" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Le Dicen Fregona: Poemas de Un Chavo de la Frontera / They Call her Fregona</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles </span></p></li></ul><p><br /></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-89352122698501275282023-04-19T21:29:00.004-07:002023-07-26T01:40:04.397-07:00National Poetry Month<p> <b data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">This National Poetry Month, Discover Your Gateway Poetry Read!</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ASxrwr7TzshTuD9zYLMiQPYXf04jLtMAXlp1qxLasoiqKOVVu-8sfY_8HvoOluP94-lXn7o_gMq72L9Fz07u-ZB0OfoqtaB_Im_YdyudHII0QG4aR38dJJK5fzjQ4vG_9jRrsM4trfb5HaGemnORNythbDXPO0b5tlVepyFtS1T0YnnlYT0/s3323/02261D0A-FE56-4A85-A826-CCA307802D90.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3323" data-original-width="2400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ASxrwr7TzshTuD9zYLMiQPYXf04jLtMAXlp1qxLasoiqKOVVu-8sfY_8HvoOluP94-lXn7o_gMq72L9Fz07u-ZB0OfoqtaB_Im_YdyudHII0QG4aR38dJJK5fzjQ4vG_9jRrsM4trfb5HaGemnORNythbDXPO0b5tlVepyFtS1T0YnnlYT0/s320/02261D0A-FE56-4A85-A826-CCA307802D90.jpeg" width="231" /></a></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">April is National Poetry Month, our chance to be reminded of the power of poetry. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Before you tell me that you’re “not a poetry reader” or “don’t know poetry”, I’m going to tell you I’ve said the same thing! But over the years I’ve learned that <i data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem;">anyone</i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1rem;"> can </span>become a self-identified poetry lover once they discover that gateway books that opens their eyes to the power of poetry as literature. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">For me, Harold Green III’s BLACK ROSES: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women and BLACK OAK: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men (HarperDesign, illustrated by Melissa Koby) were two of my biggest gateway poetry reads. When I first met Harold, I was blown away by his way with words. One day I was an agent who didn’t represent poetry; the next, I couldn’t imagine letting anyone else bring these words to the shelves! </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Harold’s poetry uses rhythm and turn of phrase to elevate biography to an even higher art form. BLACK ROSES and BLACK OAK were born from his video performances of odes to Black individuals making history. The way poetry allowed him to infuse those life stories with more personal energy captivated me. How could a poetry book leave me thinking for days? Had I misjudged poetry all this time?? His poems, which he describes as “flowers for the living”, completely expanded how I thought about the possibilities of poetry. </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">And I’m not the only one: pick up one of his books and watch some of his videos to understand why thousands up thousands of people share and repost his work. Harold’s poetry continues to stretch the bounds of what poetry can do— and where it can be sign. His words have adorned Nike stores in Chicago to Chicago Transit Authority; he has spoken at Mayoral inaugurations, and has been commissioned to fly across the country and deliver personalized odes. There’s more, but I’ll stop there. Let’s just say: he’s good, and he’s likely to change your mind, too.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">For me, his books are a beautiful example of how relevant poetry is to the lives we live today. Please join me in celebrating National Poetry Month, and reach out on Twitter and let me know some of your poetry discoveries this month, too!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Harold Green III’s <a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/harold-green-iii&source=gmail&ust=1681251264354000&usg=AOvVaw3FTZhOVzeumRAZ7K3UCBy1" href="https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/harold-green-iii" style="color: #4285f4; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">BLACK ROSES and BLACK OAK</a> are available everywhere books are sold. Learn more about him at <a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://HaroldandtheBeard.com&source=gmail&ust=1681251264354000&usg=AOvVaw3WT7y5B70xmhn45RObOIG8" href="http://haroldandthebeard.com/" style="color: #4285f4; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">HaroldandtheBeard.com</a>. See more FCL recommended books for <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/national-poetry-month-ed46c302-47a0-4dde-a2c9-ab8065fa395d" target="_blank">National Poetry Month, here</a>.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">For now, I leave you with his spectacular video ode to Colin Kaepernick, <a data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DJj_PvNeBSZM&source=gmail&ust=1681251264354000&usg=AOvVaw2yiQmv0yLHBRlIm1UboTm6" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_PvNeBSZM" style="color: #4285f4; font-size: 1rem;" target="_blank">Colin’s</a> <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Proposal. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">Happy National Poetry Month!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></div><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 1rem; word-spacing: 1px;">- Lilly </div>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-7660348592579185562023-03-08T18:41:00.008-08:002023-03-08T20:04:24.357-08:00Happy International Women's Day!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw6mrXbCWUQtssABsUMFytseR7_hlz02tFHQ7QyDdGHnVp6xluj7jU5cjNf8avycHGufrGvlHUsJK4' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Every March, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women in the past and all around us. As a woman owned and operated literary agency, Full Circle Literary honors the many women who have paved the way and are an inspiration for generations to come! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/women-s-history-month-1c9c892d-fceb-4730-8ba5-ad7e5c9cd868" target="_blank">Women’s History Month</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/women-s-history-month-1c9c892d-fceb-4730-8ba5-ad7e5c9cd868" target="_blank"> FCL Bookshop</a> list is filled with many book recommendations, such as Monica Brown’s </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos,</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> illustrated by John Parra (NorthSouth Books)</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.<a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#search/monica%40monicabrown.net/WhctKKXpWhpGCfJwzlxzBvczPhwWCJwCjGgkGpnWcvmlFqhMrJhfNmJCdcSGXxGMtJFrTJg?compose=new&projector=1" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#search/monica%40monicabrown.net/WhctKKXpWhpGCfJwzlxzBvczPhwWCJwCjGgkGpnWcvmlFqhMrJhfNmJCdcSGXxGMtJFrTJg?compose=new&projector=1" target="_blank">Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos</a></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> honors the artist and her many animal muses.<i> Mae Makes A Way</i> illustrated by Andrea Pippins celebrates entrepreneur hat maker and activist Mae Reeves. <i>Sing with Me/Canta Conmigo </i>by Diana López is the story of beloved Selena Quintanilla. <i>Child of the Flower Song People</i> by Gloria Amescua is a lyrical biography of Luz Jimenez. <i>Black Roses</i> by Harold Green III shares poetic odes to powerful Black woman and <i>Leading the Way</i> by Theresa & Janet Howell highlights women political leaders. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On International Women's Day, we’re spotlighting award-winning author Monica Brown, author of more than 30 books for children. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monica’s books are inspired by her Peruvian and Jewish heritage and desire to bring diverse stories to children, including picture books </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Name Is Celia/Me llamo Celia </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illustrated by Rafael López and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Side By Side/ Lado a lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illustrated by Joe Cepeda. Her books have received multiple starred reviews, Pura Belpré Honors, Américas Award, NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor for Nonfiction, and The Christopher Award, among others. </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monica is also an English professor at Northern Arizona University. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrate International Women's Day with this Monica Brown video sharing her inspiration for </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span></span></span></div></div><br />FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-83403279968080769972023-02-18T13:46:00.003-08:002023-02-18T14:08:56.282-08:00Honoring Black History Month<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUgQS3XvOMh-0DrwXmNkkIHeP24OhPssep0ebtNyhcQSOVtT6n_rmdrsjxOwChxy2Z1uNdXYNvwzyHsaS0qUifEXxfGpNkk-EqFN9c5H48IySKmvC3I1LbaA7rtT6iNbKIwmeoNoELiL5nDz4D1YPCtK5qAp9k_MCO2XQ6jb6AvCMNGWYxag/s504/0E915559-BE39-45F8-B67A-76BFA51F0B63.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="504" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyUgQS3XvOMh-0DrwXmNkkIHeP24OhPssep0ebtNyhcQSOVtT6n_rmdrsjxOwChxy2Z1uNdXYNvwzyHsaS0qUifEXxfGpNkk-EqFN9c5H48IySKmvC3I1LbaA7rtT6iNbKIwmeoNoELiL5nDz4D1YPCtK5qAp9k_MCO2XQ6jb6AvCMNGWYxag/s320/0E915559-BE39-45F8-B67A-76BFA51F0B63.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">We believe in honoring Black history every month, but Black History Month allows us to shine an even</span><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span><i data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">brighter</i><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"> </span><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">light on creators making books that evoke, inspire, inform and celebrate. Please see this <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/black-history-month-2ed5768b-ed44-4446-9657-b03366ef9848" target="_blank">FCL Bookshop link</a> for a suggested list of children and adult titles by our Full Circle Literary family members.</span></span><p></p><div data-originalcomputedfontsize="16" data-removefontsize="true" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Special thanks to author and illustrator <a href="https://conta.cc/3atyrd6" target="_blank">Andrea Pippins</a> for the beautiful art she lent us for this post!</span></div>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-58167046989001221362022-12-22T15:28:00.019-08:002023-02-18T13:59:52.073-08:00🌟2022 Best Books & Starred Reviews🌟<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFyUIyeSEXq5wxwPw4_smzm6mjYyZXnbkLad-pHfubAfjHbH4-3QHqwcNbTvqzLHRN2HwtiNSaCmBBg1lhuj_aK3fcg2oyI6nN2sCY_zUCVLjWswZV_gSZYJHs6kNkXX1ruVs7kRKEgf2DQTKImgnRE9Q0CDvPPksUiHVfyxg5IxsmU7ziRE/s1080/71E5DE84-0D1B-4F25-A14A-DC1F7F4A3D53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFyUIyeSEXq5wxwPw4_smzm6mjYyZXnbkLad-pHfubAfjHbH4-3QHqwcNbTvqzLHRN2HwtiNSaCmBBg1lhuj_aK3fcg2oyI6nN2sCY_zUCVLjWswZV_gSZYJHs6kNkXX1ruVs7kRKEgf2DQTKImgnRE9Q0CDvPPksUiHVfyxg5IxsmU7ziRE/s320/71E5DE84-0D1B-4F25-A14A-DC1F7F4A3D53.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-thickness: initial; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;">⭐️</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to our ALA Award Winners and Best Books of the Year! </span><span style="background-color: white; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We're so proud of another amazing year for our authors and illustrators and honored to see so many stars </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; orphans: 2; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"> (40 stars in 2022) </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; orphans: 2; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;">Can’t wait for all the book magic to come in 2023! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TUMBLE </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Celia C. 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horn Book</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Connection</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Pura Belpré Author Honor Book</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA RISE Feminist Book </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children’s Book</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YALSA Amazing Audiobooks</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tomás Rivera Mexican American Book Award</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSMCL Best Book of 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanstown Public Library 2022 Great Books for Kids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Horn Book</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Fanfare 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NPR 2022 Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Middle Grade Fiction</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE YEAR WE LEARNED TO FLY</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Jackie Woodson, illus by Rafael López (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSMCL Best Books of 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids Indie Next 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Parents</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Magazine Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Bulletin</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2022 Blue Ribbon Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NPR 2022 Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Picture Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NAACP Image Award Finalist - Outstanding Literary Work for Children</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GROWING AN ARTIST</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by John Parra (Paula Wiseman Books/S&S)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BookPage</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: normal;">NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boston Globe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> Best Book of the Year</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSMCL Best Books of 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">TXLA Tejas Star Reading List</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LAKELORE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ Kirkus Reviews </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ Booklist </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ Publishers Weekly </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ Shelf Awareness</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2023 ALA Rainbow Book List</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I DON'T CARE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Julie Fogliano, co-illustrated by Molly Idle & Juana Martinez-Neal (Holiday House)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171219; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171219; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171219; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanstown Public Library 2022 Great Books for Kids</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SELF-MADE BOYS: A GREAT GATSBY REMIX</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Editors’ Choice </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Books of the Year </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Book Award Longlist </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THEY CALL HER FREGONA</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Bowles (Kokila Books/Penguin)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSMCL Best Book of 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Poetry & Novels in Verse</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OMAR RISING</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Aisha Saeed (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin) </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSMCL Best Books of 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHAT THE FACT?!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Dr. Seema Yasmin (S&S)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Publishers Weekly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: normal;">NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Nonfiction Older Readers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE READ ALOUD FACTOR</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Rekha S. Rajan (Parenting Press/Chicago Review Press)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Library Journal </i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHERE WONDER GROWS </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Xelena Gonzales, illus by Adriana M. Garcia ( Lee & Low)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Pura Belpré Illustration Award</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children’s Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ONE WISH </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by M.O. Yuksel, illustrated by Mariam Quraishi (HarperCollins)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ School Library Journal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">ALA RISE Feminist Book</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Nonfiction Picture Books</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LET’S BE FRIENDS/SEAMOS AMIGOS</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by René Colato Laínez, illus Nomar Perez (Holiday House)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A PERFECT FIT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal (Clarion/Harper)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">ALA RISE Feminist Book</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Editors’ Choice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2022 Nerdies: Nonfiction Picture Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UN VERANO ESPECIAL CON LA ABUELA</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Tania de Regil (Candlewick)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Books</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TXLA Tejas Star Reading List</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CLIMB ON! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Baptiste Paul, illus by Jacqueline Alcántara (NorthSouth)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Booklist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>THE WORST TEDDY EVER</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Marcelo Verdad (LB Kids)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">⭐️ </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">BCCB</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>The Bulletin </i>2022 Blue Ribbon Book</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library 2022 Best Book</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of the Year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BLACK ROSES</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Harold Green III (HarperDesign)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐️ </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Library Journal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">STILL DREAMING/ SEGUIMOS SOÑANDO </b><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez, illus by Magdalena Mora ( Lee & Low)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Pura Belpré Illustration Honor</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children’s Book</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ILA Notable Book for a Global Society</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">THAT'S NOT MY NAME</b><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Anoosha Syed (Viking/Penguin)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parents </i><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magazine Best Book of </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">the</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Year</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">TXLA Texas 2x2 Reading List</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>EL CUARTO TURQUESA/THE TURQUOISE ROOM</b> by Monica Brown, illus by Adriana M. Garcia (Lee & Low)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">ALA RISE Feminist Book</span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">2022 Premio Campoy-Ada Premio de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil</span></span></span></span></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-73477107941803364162022-10-22T17:13:00.004-07:002022-10-22T17:13:45.978-07:00El cuarto turquesa / The Turquoise Room by Monica Brown& Adriana M. Garcia<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCyicUF5WA4FK4lLsztMhxxs5L-TVeUn4UohnZzoRmxR8rbKICfh_nvES7dj4OJ4GBdVRsYZE55RYovRI-5SF043ks6lU-DYKP3xl0oDjgzdNUUhVVmNt5eSpaaqEoJXYTq1luyS7H4Hs-cd1BlGq_MFo6cQBib56Mw6-MZ2v3ZLvYJnRUw_w/s1200/TTR_IG_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCyicUF5WA4FK4lLsztMhxxs5L-TVeUn4UohnZzoRmxR8rbKICfh_nvES7dj4OJ4GBdVRsYZE55RYovRI-5SF043ks6lU-DYKP3xl0oDjgzdNUUhVVmNt5eSpaaqEoJXYTq1luyS7H4Hs-cd1BlGq_MFo6cQBib56Mw6-MZ2v3ZLvYJnRUw_w/s320/TTR_IG_5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;">Bestselling author Monica Brown takes us on a magical journey into the lives of generations of creative women in her family in this gorgeously illustrated bilingual picture book, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 43, 43); color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">EL CUARTO TURQUESA/THE TURQUOISE ROOM, published by Lee & Low Books.</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Esther paints a map and dreams of exploring the world.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">Esther’s daughter Isabel paints pictures and dreams of becoming an artist.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">Isabel’s daughter Monica paints with words and dreams of telling stories.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">From the turquoise room in Peru, Esther, then Isabel, then Monica draws the strength to trust her imagination and fly into the world of dreams and possibilities. Over mountains and the sea, along rivers of paint, or among the swirl of words on a page, each girl, then woman, finds her creative path.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">In this loving memoir, Monica Brown has created an homage to her grandmother and mother and a legacy for her daughters. Accompanied by luminous illustrations by Adriana M. Garcia, this warm, lyrical story invites you to close your eyes, open your mind, and imagine your life!</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">Read this guest post by Monica Brown about the creativity and dreams that were pass down through generations of women in her family---which inspired her to write EL CUARTO TURQUESA/THE TURQUOISE ROOM! <a href="https://blog.leeandlow.com/2022/09/21/ties-that-bind-across-generations-a-guest-post-by-monica-brown/">https://blog.leeandlow.com/2022/09/21/ties-that-bind-across-generations-a-guest-post-by-monica-brown/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 24px; orphans: 2; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;"><br /></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-24010321640560108672022-07-07T16:51:00.000-07:002022-07-07T16:51:09.123-07:00Anoosha Syed's Author-Illustrator Debut, July 12! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURxyaBouPr7M4aU8nWdPgT1K8qHBwOchdisDp_qtsAP1y_KS_YHXnwAC5xSFJuz3ia8ictNLgSOpHtjssiwa6org1Ezth2dOGa83qwWMObk9BdnkNng0I1LoJVGEanWgmUtyn1sLh5aOGSsBGA0VC8agdgrpqM0gTFIYoTokhy64vw6K1gRw/s1080/ThatsNotMyName_PreorderAsset_30048_IGFB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjURxyaBouPr7M4aU8nWdPgT1K8qHBwOchdisDp_qtsAP1y_KS_YHXnwAC5xSFJuz3ia8ictNLgSOpHtjssiwa6org1Ezth2dOGa83qwWMObk9BdnkNng0I1LoJVGEanWgmUtyn1sLh5aOGSsBGA0VC8agdgrpqM0gTFIYoTokhy64vw6K1gRw/s320/ThatsNotMyName_PreorderAsset_30048_IGFB.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />This coming Tuesday, July 12, 2022, an amazing author-illustrator debut hits bookstores! THAT’S NOT MY NAME! by Anoosha Syed is a fabulous book that will resonate with readers and is a perfect addition to every library. Her vibrant, dynamic art is joyful and engaging, and we can’t wait for kids and adults alike to see Anoosha’s very personal debut. <div><br /></div><div><div><b>A debut picture book about loving your name, finding your voice, and standing up for yourself from the critically acclaimed illustrator of <i>Bilal Cooks Daal</i> and <i>I Am Perfectly Designed</i>.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Mirha is so excited for her first day of school! She can't wait to learn, play, and make new friends. But when her classmates mispronounce her name, she goes home wondering if she should find a new one. Maybe then she'd be able to find a monogrammed keychain at the gas station or order a hot chocolate at the cafe more easily.</div><div> </div><div>Mama helps Mirha to see how special her name is, and she returns to school the next day determined to help her classmates say it correctly--even if it takes a hundred tries.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Affirming and empowering; a story that will resonate with many children and a lot of adults, too."</div><div>-Kirkus Reviews</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Anoosha Syed</b> is a Pakistani-Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. She has a passion for creating cute characters with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion, and has illustrated many best-loved books for children. She is the illustrator of <i>Bilal Cooks Daal</i> by Aisha Saeed. <i>Bug Girl</i> and <i>Bug Girl: Fury on the Dance Floor</i>, as well as <i>I Am Perfectly Designed</i>, written by Karamo Brown, and the Monster and Boy chapter book series, written by Hannah Barnaby.</div><div><br /></div><div>When Anoosha isn't drawing for work, she's drawing for fun (she doesn't really have any other hobbies).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/that-s-not-my-name-9780593405178/9780593405178">Pre-order your copy</a> of THAT'S NOT MY NAME! today! </div><div><br /></div>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-68735999883135890032022-03-21T23:36:00.005-07:002022-05-03T17:09:12.952-07:00GROWING AN ARTIST coming soon!<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_OP3WZvBukxmro7nUFUT9i04VoGh9qlvL_jMMi5DTOa9D7UoKfiXCYWgPEBJiTqDAHy0RG0tcJ2Rl3vw24kCpdH0m2tbYuLcZXxl-VmBepfBcE6QLgSxKqW0PQV7dge1kjO8fn1-eKroFv2qluSH9FYYNCsvHzKee9ycHimvgt6uYmAL8SQ/s2400/Parra_ARTIST_Kids%20Indie%20Next.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="2400" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_OP3WZvBukxmro7nUFUT9i04VoGh9qlvL_jMMi5DTOa9D7UoKfiXCYWgPEBJiTqDAHy0RG0tcJ2Rl3vw24kCpdH0m2tbYuLcZXxl-VmBepfBcE6QLgSxKqW0PQV7dge1kjO8fn1-eKroFv2qluSH9FYYNCsvHzKee9ycHimvgt6uYmAL8SQ/w400-h219/Parra_ARTIST_Kids%20Indie%20Next.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kids' Indie Next Pick!</b> The debut picture book by a<span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ward-winning artist John Parra, GROWING AN ARTIST will be published by Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster on May 10, 2022. A touching and deeply personal picture book based on the author's childhood experiences, and the links between nature, art, and creativity.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A 2022 Kids' Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>⭐"A heartwarming family story that underscores the value of creativity, passion, and hard work." ---Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Today is a big day—the first time Juanito gets to help his papi on the job as a landscape architect! Throughout the day, Juanito sketches anything that catches his eye: a nest full of baby birds, a nursery with row upon row of plants and flowers, and more. Father and son travel from house to house, pruning, weeding, mowing, and turning overgrown and chaotic yards into beautiful spaces.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A few of the clients don’t appreciate Papi’s hard work, like Juanito’s classmate who pretends not to see him. But Papi always feels pride in owning his own business and in a job well done. And at the end of the day, Juanito may get the chance to turn his artistic eye toward landscape design—just like his papi. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Growing-an-Artist/John-Parra/9781534469273" target="_blank">Pre-order your copy</a>, available in English and Spanish editions on May 10! <br /></span></span></span></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(71, 70, 70); color: #474646; font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: -webkit-paged-x; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="selectionShareable" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(71, 70, 70); color: #474646; font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: -webkit-paged-x; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Noto Sans", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 70, 70); color: #474646; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br /><span face=""Noto Sans", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 70, 70); color: #474646; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-31964588057950103662021-12-12T14:20:00.020-08:002022-02-22T12:50:11.733-08:00The Best Books of 2021!<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfJKy3kECdROhkKbl9xkemVeDRbmLgUeXlZxNHpdUlENeoCHP6CbDyrfnSrfhzQuvYabpzMD0-phU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">We're so proud of our Full Circle Literary authors and illustrators that published amazing books in 2021. As we close out the year, we're celebrating our <b>2021 Starred Reviews</b> (almost 50!!!) and honored to see our books on so many <b>Best Books of the Year </b>lists. Congratulations to all!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-mOYjKb3vr5wH1WXCoPZhoo3mGrzAXT9ftpgQNhLHtoUFKRWvi9TogxajRvV4NlMAK188DNoVAiq0LIjZQxHc5mTeYqWvSGdZ-9jgkFK-bpGrzpOC4q0DbAzt9svtQ2MXnjKZXplmLZr2PeICuBnsutAHk05KwEnIZg6JYJ0OoV4E4EnTwKY=s1533" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1399" data-original-width="1533" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-mOYjKb3vr5wH1WXCoPZhoo3mGrzAXT9ftpgQNhLHtoUFKRWvi9TogxajRvV4NlMAK188DNoVAiq0LIjZQxHc5mTeYqWvSGdZ-9jgkFK-bpGrzpOC4q0DbAzt9svtQ2MXnjKZXplmLZr2PeICuBnsutAHk05KwEnIZg6JYJ0OoV4E4EnTwKY=w200-h183" width="200" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ROOM FOR EVERYONE</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Naaz Khan, illus by Merce Lopez (Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/S&S)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children's Book <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids IndieNext Pick 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amazon Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Boston Globe </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smithsonian Ten Best Children's Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Publishers Weekly</i> Fall 2021 Flying Starts<br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.554; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>BookPage</span></i><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; 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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.554; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Publishers Weekly</span><span style="font-style: italic; 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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BuzzFeed Best Young Adult Book of 2021 <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021 Nerdies: Young Adult</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cybils Award Finalist: Young Adult Speculative Fiction <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021 National Book Award Longlist</span></span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Junior Library Guild Selection</span></span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span>Booklist</i> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews</i> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Publishers Weekly</i> starred review </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivlQcA3E4KYS2sJea7VZz0FJgnr2G7rJ-gNOljXzCeC6z3XYG8ahtcruPUTrkbIWv9WtAgP93G7sT_gyeOu9JdbD_prMILzpzSydPOYMtXZPzmZ8jYPD2EdTUdMDWvzOTcS-ANZogj7nKgUq7S0oVhpidttSPU1-4Bzo08podaH3UQGx81vVE=s1275" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1275" data-original-width="844" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivlQcA3E4KYS2sJea7VZz0FJgnr2G7rJ-gNOljXzCeC6z3XYG8ahtcruPUTrkbIWv9WtAgP93G7sT_gyeOu9JdbD_prMILzpzSydPOYMtXZPzmZ8jYPD2EdTUdMDWvzOTcS-ANZogj7nKgUq7S0oVhpidttSPU1-4Bzo08podaH3UQGx81vVE=w133-h200" width="133" /></a></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAYA AND THE ROBOT</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Eve Ewing, illus by Christine Almeda (Kokila/Penguin)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Mighty Girl's 2021 Best Book of the Year </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids List of 2021 </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.554; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Shelf Awareness</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7QOpwJv7JddkjGeCArKSZJlqVHK5NhxN6nemput2ghWkCIO_-hQi5EbKtMnpzqjb3O_NdNhUzQS1IjLzkjGFsr8aGUjEqaowI8cJB5TSqbVaeetfD-waXmFLNuMNWGc85EB_mRc6rd2uIU-IZGGhkl4SUHL0NzhQiKZKcwH7MXW6p-RGBQ4g=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Alicia D. Willams, illus by Jacqueline Alcantara (Caitlyn Dloughy Books/S&S) </span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CCBC Children's Choices 2022</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Mighty Girl's 2021 Best Book of the Year </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids List of 2021 </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEiOvg7SNje-4om-8lRCr-uoXbHFZlqb0s0-0vSIMTNNuoZPIO7bP6bIQrCYrkVreVTxsyoW2HhG9CUTtxGfP-ksiCO9dOyMgNZ0mNrrfwVjEUNpKPaOxm2LkjahjNZaahVoMceJ0PFz1UW2e4In3kDHIuJm4cVQils5DzVmxt_BM1tEcKsHE=s831" style="margin-left: 1em; 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white-space: pre-wrap;">CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of Nahua</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Gloria Amescua, illus by Duncan Tonatiuh (Abrams)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>ALA Pura Belpré Author Honor Book </b><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children's Book</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Readers</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CCBC Children's Choices 2022</span></span></span> </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Mighty Girl's 2021 Best Book of the Year </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSML Best Multicultural Children's Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2021 Nerdies: Nonfiction Picture Books <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Junior Library Guild Selection</span></span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Booklist</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>School Library Journal </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Reem Faruqi</span></span></span>, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illus by Fahmida Azim</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALA Notable Children's Book</span></span></span> </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Readers </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSML Best Multicultural Children's Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Booklist</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LA SELVA DE ZONIA</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span> by Juana Martinez-Neal (Candlewick) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Los Mejores Libros para Pequenos</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Mighty Girl's 2021 Best Book of the Year <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CSML Best Multicultural Children's Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank Street College 2022 Best Spanish Book of the Year <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Society of Illustrators Original Art Showcase 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Booklist</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Diana López, illus by Teresa Martínez (Dial/Penguin)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Mighty Girl's 2021 Best Book of the Year </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library Los Mejores Libros para Pequeños</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank Street College 2022 Best Spanish Book of the Year </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Rukhsanna Guidroz, illus by Fahmida Azim (Penguin/Kokila) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>ALA 2022 RISE: A Feminist Book Project Book</b></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; 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caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publishers Weekly</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NCTE 2022 Notable Poetry Book and Verse Novel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; 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ROAD SIGNS AHEAD</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Toni Buzzeo, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">illus by Chi Birmingham (RISE/Penguin)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Book of 2021</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cybils Award Finalist - Board Book/Picture Book <br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyUHx36acl9xWhqRYmaFBnQ2XRsnJ6kDdPtc9sIjBHMu4JIERou3yB0l2YrTrKYd1c_177l8ncYoVhXHknldXTuxq3msEATePyVQY3k5qKKM66KasbkyLXXaC_1bCMXZvgxQ837xnFHF0BcPuK_pSt7zxujLlZ5meZVnk8Z2rcHtcGxTaCclw=s801" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="801" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyUHx36acl9xWhqRYmaFBnQ2XRsnJ6kDdPtc9sIjBHMu4JIERou3yB0l2YrTrKYd1c_177l8ncYoVhXHknldXTuxq3msEATePyVQY3k5qKKM66KasbkyLXXaC_1bCMXZvgxQ837xnFHF0BcPuK_pSt7zxujLlZ5meZVnk8Z2rcHtcGxTaCclw=w200-h171" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RISE UP AND WRITE IT!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Nandini Ahuja, illus by Anoosha Syed (HarperCollins)</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>Kirkus Reviews</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQGUxLY248ZfDTh_yKMfQk3Ep5ZOxFptIz5Fy70HBa0ZZoryaPDTSy37WkRJr2NnL_wiFjhnIw3DCzWEFmIjNbJ3LqggZYx25G4SnbmjgiLyf1766KbdFignsm5-he0-z8GYs5oJGiyHeEYKH6AYNHirGB9Ht0hI_3g5Vs_HppWvUyEfe9G_c=s1427" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1427" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQGUxLY248ZfDTh_yKMfQk3Ep5ZOxFptIz5Fy70HBa0ZZoryaPDTSy37WkRJr2NnL_wiFjhnIw3DCzWEFmIjNbJ3LqggZYx25G4SnbmjgiLyf1766KbdFignsm5-he0-z8GYs5oJGiyHeEYKH6AYNHirGB9Ht0hI_3g5Vs_HppWvUyEfe9G_c=w200-h196" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JUST YOU AND ME </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Jennifer Ward, illus by Alexander Vidal (S&S/Beach Lane)<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span> <br /></span></span></span></div></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; 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caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">⭐ </span></span></span>School Library Journal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starred review</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>PRIDE AND PREMEDITATION</b> by Tirzah Price (HarperTeen)</span></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BuzzFeed Best Young Adult Book of 2021 </span></span></span></span></span></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Junior Library Guild Selection</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>New York Times</i> Bestseller</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); 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color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br />FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-47313650428624078322021-11-15T08:36:00.003-08:002021-11-15T08:36:28.604-08:00Happy 10th Anniversary Marisol McDonald!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyR_jPkXS_8/YZKLwdqG1LI/AAAAAAAACy8/W97LRmIZr9IEal7YcaV9O46idHft9KS1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1444/MMDM%2B10th%2BANniversary%2Bw%253Abooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1444" height="189" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyR_jPkXS_8/YZKLwdqG1LI/AAAAAAAACy8/W97LRmIZr9IEal7YcaV9O46idHft9KS1QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/MMDM%2B10th%2BANniversary%2Bw%253Abooks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>We’re celebrating the 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of <em><strong><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-doesn-t-match-marisol-mcdonald-no-combina" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina</a></strong> </em>by <strong>Monica Brown</strong> and illustrated by <strong>Sara Palacios</strong>, published by <b>Lee & Low Books</b>.
Over the years, the iconic, titular character, Marisol, has touched the
hearts of young readers everywhere through play, imagination, and just
being her amazing self!</p>
<p>Renowned author Monica Brown wrote this title as well as others in this lively series—<a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-and-the-clash-bash-marisol-mcdonald-y-la-fiesta-sin-igual" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash/Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual </em></a>and <a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-and-the-monster-marisol-mcdonald-y-el-monstruo" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>Marisol McDonald and the Monster/Marisol McDonald y el monstruo</em></a>—to
bring her own experience of being multiracial to life. Fans of the
award-winning Marisol McDonald series will be encouraged to embrace
their own uniqueness like Marisol who takes pride in her individuality.</p>
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<p>Join author Monica Brown and editor Louise May in conversation as they celebrate the 10<sup>th</sup> Anniversary!</p>
<p><strong>Date:</strong> November 15, 2021<br />
<strong>Time:</strong> 3:00 PM ET<br />
<strong>How to Join:</strong> <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vflXJagEQRKdElp80t8d9A" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Register here.</a> Join us live, or register for a link to watch the recordings later!</p>
<h6><em><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-doesn-t-match-marisol-mcdonald-no-combina"><img alt="Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match" class="alignright " height="227" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.leeandlow.com/uploads/book_cover_image/2884/main_large.jpg?resize=200%2C227&ssl=1" width="200" /></a>Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina </em></h6>
<p>Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots
and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and
jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched
things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose in
confusion at Marisol—can’t she just choose one or the other? Try as she
might, in a world where everyone tries to put this biracial,
Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald doesn’t
match. And that’s just fine with her.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/557/MarisolMcDonaldDoesntMatch_TeachersGuide.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>View the Teacher’s Guide.</strong></a></p>
<h6><em><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-and-the-clash-bash-marisol-mcdonald-y-la-fiesta-sin-igual"><img alt="Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash" class="alignright " height="233" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.leeandlow.com/uploads/book_cover_image/2658/main_large.jpg?resize=200%2C233&ssl=1" width="200" /></a>Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash/Marisol McDonald y la fiesta sin igual</em></h6>
<p>In the follow-up to the Pura Belpré Award Honor-winning <em>Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald No Combina</em>, everyone’s favorite mismatched heroine turns eight and throws a fabulously mismatched party.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/364/Marisol_McDonald_and_the_Clash_Bash_Teacher_s_Guide_2016_Final_copy.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>View the Teacher’s Guide.</strong></a></p>
<h6><em><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/marisol-mcdonald-and-the-monster-marisol-mcdonald-y-el-monstruo"><img alt="Marisol McDonald and the Monster" class="alignright " height="233" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.leeandlow.com/uploads/book_cover_image/3915/main_MARISOL_AND_THE_MONSTER_FC_lo_res.jpg?resize=200%2C233&ssl=1" width="200" /></a>Marisol McDonald and the Monster/Marisol McDonald y el monstruo</em></h6>
<p>With her orange-red hair, golden-brown skin, and endearing
individuality, Peruvian-Scottish-American Marisol learns to face her
fears in this empowering story of harnessing the imagination and
conquering nighttime monsters.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/339/Marisol_McDonald_and_the_Monster_Teacher_s_Guide_2016.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><strong>View the Teacher’s Guide.</strong></a></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/2834/interviews" rel="noopener" target="_blank">In this interview</a>,
author Monica Brown shares her thoughts and inspiration behind creating
a bicultural character and why she loves writing children’s books.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Marisol McDonald </em>series Resources:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/49/MarisolActivityKit.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Marisol McDonald Activity Kit</a><br />
<a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/uploads/loaded_document/317/Building_Classroom_Community_in_Kindergarten_Lesson_Plan_5.pdf">Building Classroom Community in Kindergarten </a><br />
<a href="https://www.spanishplayground.net/marisol-mcdonald-and-the-monster-spanish-activities/">Spanish Playground: Marisol McDonald and the Monster Activities<br />
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<a href="https://www.humaneeducation.org/fridayfeature-5-childrens-picture-books-celebrating-identity/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Institute for Humane Education</a></p><p> </p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-35254013740898777442021-09-25T15:10:00.022-07:002021-10-09T14:39:07.706-07:00<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0n6DOGljzDY/YVqPVhUVwUI/AAAAAAAACyE/sCuf8fWKHi42sMY3u5ThNNfxkeBeObT7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/HHM2021%2BGood%2BReads.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0n6DOGljzDY/YVqPVhUVwUI/AAAAAAAACyE/sCuf8fWKHi42sMY3u5ThNNfxkeBeObT7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HHM2021%2BGood%2BReads.png" width="320" /></a></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br />Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month is in full swing! Celebrating our Latinx heritage with recommended reading for all ages written and illustrated by Latinx creators! Only 6% of children’s books published in 2020 were created by members of our Latinx community --spotlight these tiles in your book collection this month and all year round. </b><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </b><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <br /></b></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gracias to GoodReads (with LatinxinPublishing), Today Show, Hip Latina, and New York Public Library for recommending our Full Circle Literary titles!</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visit Full Circle Literary’s <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/fullcirclelit" target="_blank">BOOKSHOP of Bilingual and Spanish-language books</a></span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GOODREADS and LATINXINPUBLISHING</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 1.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2168-a-reading-list-of-new-books-to-celebrate-hispanic-heritage-month" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Reading List of New Books to Celebrate Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month </span></a></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CUBA IN MY POCKET by Adrianna Cuevas</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ONCE I WAS YOU by Maria Hinojosa</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eKmKimJOTLk/YV8y8MtqRwI/AAAAAAAACyU/BPDeDs1oBTcrZnCbt9XHns0dHWvT_2dawCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/HHM2021%2BTODAY%2BSHOW%2BUPDATE%2B10.6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eKmKimJOTLk/YV8y8MtqRwI/AAAAAAAACyU/BPDeDs1oBTcrZnCbt9XHns0dHWvT_2dawCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HHM2021%2BTODAY%2BSHOW%2BUPDATE%2B10.6.png" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TODAY SHOW</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.today.com/shop/children-s-books-hispanic-heritage-month-today-t229002" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Books recommended by authors Margarita Engle, Yuyi Morales and David Bowles</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.today.com/shop/children-s-books-hispanic-heritage-month-today-t229002" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SHARUKO by Monica Brown, illustrated by Elisa Chavarri</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHILD OF THE FLOWER-SONG PEOPLE by Gloria Amescua, illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOUR MAMA by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY SHOES AND I/ MIS ZAPATOS Y YO by Rene Colato Laínez</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Reyna Grande</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9VBlPLQW98Q/YWILxIDS6EI/AAAAAAAACyo/-Orljfk36wk8yAhjjqbnsRPBk0mVYNssACLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Hispanic%2BNYPL%2BRevised%2B10.6.21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9VBlPLQW98Q/YWILxIDS6EI/AAAAAAAACyo/-Orljfk36wk8yAhjjqbnsRPBk0mVYNssACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Hispanic%2BNYPL%2BRevised%2B10.6.21.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/national-hispanic-heritage-month" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrating Latinx Authors for Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/national-hispanic-heritage-month" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UN NUEVO HOGAR by Tania de Regil</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13TH STREET BATTLE OF THE BAD-BREATH-BATS by David Bowles</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LETY OUT LOUD by Angela Cervantes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY SHOES AND I/MIS ZAPATOS Y YO by Rene Colato Laínez</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ALMA Y CÓMO OBTUVO SU NOMBRE by Juana Martinez-Neal</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TITO PUENTE KING OF MAMBO/REY DEL MAMBO by Monica Brown, illustrated by Rafael López</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WAITING FOR THE BIBLIOBURRO/ESPERANDO EL BIBLIOBURRO by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b></span><p></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL </span></span></b></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=29-picture-books-to-celebrate-the-latinx-experience" target="_blank"><b>Picture Books to Celebrate the Latinx Experience</b></a><br /></span></span></b></span></p><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY TWO BORDER TOWNS by David Bowles, illustrated by Erika Meza</span></span></b></span><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOUR MAMA by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara</span></span></b></span></span></b></span><p><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL <br /></span></span></b></b></span></p><p><a href="https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/?detailStory=17-latinx-middle-grade-titles-to-share-on-latinx-heritage-month"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Middle Grade Titles for Latinx Heritage Month (and All Year Round)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez</span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CUBA IN MY POCKET by Adrianna Cuevas</span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9yStTqRXwgc/YV8zHV5cUgI/AAAAAAAACyY/2F-r5ABEOI8UK80OscctC03y3hysKrqawCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/HHM2021%2BHipLatina.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9yStTqRXwgc/YV8zHV5cUgI/AAAAAAAACyY/2F-r5ABEOI8UK80OscctC03y3hysKrqawCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HHM2021%2BHipLatina.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 4pt 0pt 5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HIP LATINA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.44; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 4pt 0pt 5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://hiplatina.com/latinx-books-kids-2021/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 of the Best Latinx Children’s Books Out in 2021</span></a><br /></span></p></b></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZONIA’S RAIN FOREST by Juana Martinez-Neal</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A SLED FOR GABO by Emma Otheguy, illustrated by Ana Ramírez González</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez</span></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY TWO BORDER TOWNS by David Bowles, illustrated by Erika Meza</span></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ROMPER</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.romper.com/entertainment/childrens-books-with-latinx-characters" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Children’s Books Starring Latinx Characters</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.romper.com/entertainment/childrens-books-with-latinx-characters" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY TWO BORDER TOWNS by David Bowles, illustrated by Erika Meza</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZONIA’S RAIN FOREST by Juana Martinez-Neal</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A SLED FOR GABO by Emma Otheguy, illustrated by Ana Ramírez González</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CHAVELA AND THE MAGIC BUBBLE by Monica Brown, illustrated by Magaly Morales</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAMA THE ALIEN by Rene Colato Laínez</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A PALETA?by Carmen Tafolla, illustrated by Amy Cordova</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAYBE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL by Isabel Campoy & Theresa Howell, illustrated by Rafael López</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LA PRINCESA AND THE PEA by Susan M. Elya, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GREEN IS A CHILE PEPPER and GRACIAS/THANKS illustrated by John Parra</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4e419939-7fff-a859-a979-7a972f1b250d" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2c293b; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uT519WI_foM/YVqNxX5nAFI/AAAAAAAACx8/VVzA_LW7sGoQCpfxl45DILqD8K2k0IGWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/HHM2021%2BGood%2BReads.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uT519WI_foM/YVqNxX5nAFI/AAAAAAAACx8/VVzA_LW7sGoQCpfxl45DILqD8K2k0IGWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/HHM2021%2BGood%2BReads.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-74615062475134996752021-07-12T22:47:00.004-07:002021-08-08T14:04:39.429-07:00Happy FCL Summer Reading!<p>Happy Summer and Happy FCL Summer Reading! 🌞🌞</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxx8Xqk9mBPA1NLUNbhZjBcWOd0RCMoVjx2MyG3bqHFFR8qwbnkA3HvrPnshyb86ZSmUPSiScknZ0Y' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p>We love seeing so many of our Full Circle Literary books on recommended Summer Reading Lists from The New York Public Library, Parents Latina, WeAreKidLit Collective, and The Horn Book Magazine. All of these books can be found at your local bookstore or library.</p><p><a href="https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/staff-picks/kids" target="_blank"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/staff-picks/kids" target="_blank"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Public Library 2021 Summer Picks for Kids</span></b></a></p> <br /><p></p><p><a href="https://wtpsite.com/2021/06/05/2021-summer-reading-list/"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WeAreKidLit 2021 Summer Reading List </span></b></a> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a href="https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=2021-summer-reading-list" target="_blank"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></b></span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.hbook.com/?detailStory=2021-summer-reading-list" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Horn Book Magazine 2021 Summer Reading List</span></a></b></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></span></b></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.parents.com/parents-latina-magazine/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parents Latina 2021 Summer Picks for Kids</span></a></b></b></b></p><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c0354524-7fff-29b7-0ef7-1691d85d3d15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <br /><p></p></b><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just out!! SING WITH ME: The Story of Selena Quintanilla by Diana Lopez, illustrated by Teresa Martinez from Dial/Penguin Young Readers. Spanish edition also available CANTA CONMIGO: La historia de Selena Quintanilla translated by Carmen Tafolla.</span></p><br /></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> <p></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgM2FFUEBLE/YO0oKpPqOdI/AAAAAAAACxA/F0Uq-THqktMs0GvYl_Zloi9_oIry651tgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DLopez_SingWithMe_9780593110959_final_CVR_April%2B21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1595" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VgM2FFUEBLE/YO0oKpPqOdI/AAAAAAAACxA/F0Uq-THqktMs0GvYl_Zloi9_oIry651tgCLcBGAsYHQ/w250-h320/DLopez_SingWithMe_9780593110959_final_CVR_April%2B21.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nJ78Orq797k/YO0oNIvINMI/AAAAAAAACxE/WJ1UBmV1mgoLnrrKNfFbQ5cGoVgbqiaowCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DLopez_CantaConmigo_9780593323304_final%2B_CVR_Apr%2B21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1593" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nJ78Orq797k/YO0oNIvINMI/AAAAAAAACxE/WJ1UBmV1mgoLnrrKNfFbQ5cGoVgbqiaowCLcBGAsYHQ/w250-h320/DLopez_CantaConmigo_9780593323304_final%2B_CVR_Apr%2B21.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><p></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-73624304374747118372021-05-12T20:06:00.005-07:002021-07-12T22:38:20.775-07:002021 Starred Reviews! <p>Full Circle Literary spring 2021 titles have *25 STARRED REVIEWS* and counting! <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxQ_qWBLLxMH0f9dXIIXekeBnJ_G__pKeQMfYEFad1PyyzuLFu0ZqRqQ_3eQu-k4QsD-8RQu7uW9kw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>It's only May and we're thrilled to see the glowing reviews for the newest releases by our Full Circle Lit authors and illustrators. We'll keep updating the list and feel free to also visit our <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/fullcirclelit/" target="_blank">FCL Bookshop</a> for our complete list of 2021 Full Circle Lit releases! </p><p>We also are proud to have 10 new <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/spanish-and-bilingual-books" target="_blank">FCL Spanish-language/bilingual books</a> coming in 2021!<br /></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-25922243816535610502021-04-24T15:17:00.005-07:002021-04-27T17:28:39.595-07:00ZONIA'S RAIN FOREST featured in NY Times<br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fEAQf-_xckQ/YIcElwsAj4I/AAAAAAAACvM/yDI_9levhc0N6FIM8dDV63psJb7rZXzFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1114/1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="1076" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fEAQf-_xckQ/YIcElwsAj4I/AAAAAAAACvM/yDI_9levhc0N6FIM8dDV63psJb7rZXzFQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/1.png" /></a></div><br />ZONIA'S RAIN FOREST featured in <i>The New York Times</i> "Picture Books for Earth Day" (April 18 issue). <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A1aWE4tvN2I/YISXtT9WiMI/AAAAAAAACuc/WdmyXtKZIyAOvsEYiYLl0KsG7-b4xwGIACPcBGAYYCw/s1134/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1069" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A1aWE4tvN2I/YISXtT9WiMI/AAAAAAAACuc/WdmyXtKZIyAOvsEYiYLl0KsG7-b4xwGIACPcBGAYYCw/s320/2.png" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8D7OWjrYd4/YISYdQ7lsjI/AAAAAAAACus/TMp35o9xCKEu8bbxZb3NI6CA_5laSC8ZACLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Zonias_Rainforest_twitter_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z8D7OWjrYd4/YISYdQ7lsjI/AAAAAAAACus/TMp35o9xCKEu8bbxZb3NI6CA_5laSC8ZACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Zonias_Rainforest_twitter_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Also check out this Q&A with Juana Martinez-Neal in <a href="https://www.mothermag.com/zonias-rain-forest/" target="_blank">Mothering Magazine</a>!<br /></p><h2 class="posttitle" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-image: url(https://www.mothermag.com/wp-content/themes/mother/images/smallborder.png); background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Didot, Times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 3px; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">ALL ABOUT JUANA MARTINEZ-NEAL’S POWERFUL NEW BOOK, ZONIA’S RAIN FOREST</h2><div class="post-top" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #9a9999; display: block; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; padding: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: auto; width: 740px; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="author" style="display: block; float: left;">WRITTEN BY KATIE HINTZ-ZAMBRANO </div><div class="timeinfo" style="display: block; float: right; margin-left: 20px;">9:00 AM</div><div class="dateinfo" style="display: block; float: right; margin-left: 20px;">04/22/21</div></div><div class="horizontalimage" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; color: black; display: block; font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; width: 740px; word-spacing: 0px;"><img src="https://www.mothermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Zonias-Rain-Forest-1.jpg" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 740px;" /><div class="photocredit" style="color: #9a9999; display: block; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", Roboto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: normal; margin-top: 3px; text-transform: uppercase;"><p style="display: inline;">PHOTOGRAPHED BY<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.jasminepulley.com/" rel="noopener" style="color: #9a9999; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">JASMINE PULLEY</a></p></div></div><div class="post-body" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Garamond, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p>Just in time for Earth Day—and Earth Month—comes a beautiful new kid-lit title from author-illustrator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://juanamartinezneal.com/" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Juana Martinez-Neal</a>that reminds us all of the interconnectedness of life on this planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2RFhoOZ" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Z<i>onia’s Rain Forest</i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(available in Spanish as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2OZyoyx" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">La selva de Zonia</a></i>) takes readers on a journey through the Amazon, where they get to spend a day alongside the main character—an Asháninka girl named Zonia—who introduces everyone to her animal friends before stumbling upon destruction.</p><p style="font-weight: 400;">“Being born and raised in Peru, I wanted to touch on the rights of the Indigenous people over their lands,” explains Martinez-Neal of the book’s deeper intention. “I hope<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3spc52R" rel="noopener" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><i>Zonia</i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>makes us see that what we know as ‘home’ is just one way of life, of many that exist in this big, interconnected world of ours. I hope<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Zonia</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>also makes us consider the source of everything that we get and purchase. If we opt for more responsible and sustainable products, we can not only be helping the environment but maintaining other people’s ways of life.”</p></div><br /><br />FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-22082083471227620232021-02-28T18:54:00.006-08:002021-03-01T18:14:23.798-08:00LATINITAS Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers<p><i><b> </b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXubPxReKeM/YDxUqkOoyTI/AAAAAAAACtk/yf0wauMTmgIvvNjJAD4_VM4mPYzqOv9RgCPcBGAYYCw/s1080/Latinitas_IG_CeciaCruz.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GXubPxReKeM/YDxUqkOoyTI/AAAAAAAACtk/yf0wauMTmgIvvNjJAD4_VM4mPYzqOv9RgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Latinitas_IG_CeciaCruz.png" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>LATINITAS Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers</b> by Juliet
Menéndez introduces young readers to 40 Latina trailblazers from 17th
century to the present, as children at play. Read the complete review in
this week's <i>New York Times</i> <i>Book Review</i>! </p><br /><div class="css-18e8msd"><div class="css-vp77d3 epjyd6m0"><div class="css-1baulvz"><p class="css-4z5zii e1jsehar1"><span class="byline-prefix">By </span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" itemprop="name"><a class="css-hogf08 e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/sandra-e-garcia">Sandra E. Garcia</a></span><time class="css-ld3wwf e16638kd2" datetime="2021-02-27T00:04:06-05:00"><span class="css-1sbuyqj e16638kd3"> </span></time></p><p class="css-4z5zii e1jsehar1"><time class="css-ld3wwf e16638kd2" datetime="2021-02-27T00:04:06-05:00"><span class="css-1sbuyqj e16638kd3">Feb. 27, 2021</span></time></p></div></div></div><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-axufdj evys1bk0"><b class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">LATINITAS</b><br />Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers<br />By Juliet Menéndez</p><p>As
a second-generation Dominican child growing up in Harlem, I was steeped
in my culture at home. From mangu to merengue, my family made sure I
never forgot my roots. But once I ventured out, everything was American,
including my heroines. I learned about Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks,
Marian Anderson, Madam C.J. Walker and many other Black women who were
trailblazers. Few were Black Latinas. I often wondered about the Rosa
Parks of the Dominican Republic, the Marian Anderson of Brazil. </p><p>Continuing reading the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/books/review/latinitas-juliet-menendez.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytbooks" target="_blank">NYT review, here</a>. </p><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G8VjHrn_M-c/YDxXOEnr6UI/AAAAAAAACtw/fFnXRKjrVtElf-_P5untt7gQIaJvNI_6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/Latinitas_IG_RigobertaMenchu.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G8VjHrn_M-c/YDxXOEnr6UI/AAAAAAAACtw/fFnXRKjrVtElf-_P5untt7gQIaJvNI_6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Latinitas_IG_RigobertaMenchu.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z8iO7DvqJw/YDxWULors5I/AAAAAAAACts/BGDTmjx2JbI1tl_zMv8UC_UgHP411bYOACPcBGAYYCw/s1080/Latinita%2BBook%2BRelease%2BSocial%2BMedia%2BIG.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Z8iO7DvqJw/YDxWULors5I/AAAAAAAACts/BGDTmjx2JbI1tl_zMv8UC_UgHP411bYOACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Latinita%2BBook%2BRelease%2BSocial%2BMedia%2BIG.png" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-42471927309448090982020-12-18T09:41:00.017-08:002021-02-17T10:55:29.848-08:00The Best of 2020!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xhAJVIzBWYU/YBTBlKctm-I/AAAAAAAACsA/USIH8TCkrBYb1WRiL4BdtP9ST_olQ92igCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Sharuko%2BFC%2Bhi%2Bres%2BRGB%252BPBA%2Bseal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1734" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xhAJVIzBWYU/YBTBlKctm-I/AAAAAAAACsA/USIH8TCkrBYb1WRiL4BdtP9ST_olQ92igCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Sharuko%2BFC%2Bhi%2Bres%2BRGB%252BPBA%2Bseal.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-22ddbae5-7fff-197c-6630-be44a6f55cbf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to our 2021 ALA Award Winners -- two Pura Belpré Honor Books, two YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and two ALA Notable Children's Books! </span></b><b id="docs-internal-guid-22ddbae5-7fff-197c-6630-be44a6f55cbf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We're celebrating our "Best of 2020" awards, honors and starred reviews. Visit our <a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/fullcirclelit/" target="_blank">Full Circle Literary Bookshop Page</a> to see our entire list of 2020 books for all ages. + pre-order our 2021 new releases.<br /></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3H88215cT0Y/YBTBWBawM6I/AAAAAAAACr8/HnI6Op9fiPYA1mejybkPNypLwSBEsoN_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/2021%2BALA%2BAward%2BWinners-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3H88215cT0Y/YBTBWBawM6I/AAAAAAAACr8/HnI6Op9fiPYA1mejybkPNypLwSBEsoN_wCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/2021%2BALA%2BAward%2BWinners-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-22ddbae5-7fff-197c-6630-be44a6f55cbf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; 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font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/once-i-was-you-a-memoir-of-love-and-hate-in-a-torn-america/9781982128654" target="_blank">ONCE I WAS YOU</a></span>: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Maria Hinojosa (S&S, Atria)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Library Journal </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best Book of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BookPage Best Nonfiction and Best Memoir of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Real Simple’s Best Books of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latino Rebels Best Books of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Las Comadres Best Books of 2020 <br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boston Globe </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Readers’ Favorite Books of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; 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Ali and Aisha Saeed, illus by Sara Alfageeh (Abrams)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>ALA Notable Children's Book</b></span><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School Library Journal</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #111111; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Best Books of 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; 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caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/dark-and-deepest-red/9781250162748" target="_blank">DARK AND DEEPEST RED</a></span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">starred review</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-22ddbae5-7fff-197c-6630-be44a6f55cbf" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4FOrpGhXbI0/X74e6GOsGhI/AAAAAAAACnY/r-eNL7lllZAt3V5ooWkt_jCeDpBDZ0PZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/growth_journal_cover_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4FOrpGhXbI0/X74e6GOsGhI/AAAAAAAACnY/r-eNL7lllZAt3V5ooWkt_jCeDpBDZ0PZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/growth_journal_cover_5.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GROWTH A Journal to Welcome Personal Change </b>by Susie Ghahremani is a guided journal with prompts to guide you through times of change.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Support your journey through life changes, resolutions or unexpected times of upheavel. Beautifully illustrated with botanicals throughout, the guided journal is a unique tool that offers encouragement and provides an inviting space to record your progress and next steps. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><a href="https://shop.boygirlparty.com/collections/_new/products/growth-a-journal-to-welcome-personal-change-by-susie-ghahremani" target="_blank">Order now</a> and receive a free sheet of coordinating page-marking stickers while supplies last!<br style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br /></span></span></p>FCLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067117536087907956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35206261.post-7601298277692212312020-09-10T01:27:00.017-07:002020-11-25T01:03:42.598-08:00ONCE I WAS YOU by Maria Hinojosa now available!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qwlspRa3OFY/X2EjmZ7RdeI/AAAAAAAACm0/yrX1hSJQ7aogdoevsWuDcCzjc6uVPBE8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/75014-OnceIWasYou-SocialAssets-Lin%2BManuel%2BMiranda.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qwlspRa3OFY/X2EjmZ7RdeI/AAAAAAAACm0/yrX1hSJQ7aogdoevsWuDcCzjc6uVPBE8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/75014-OnceIWasYou-SocialAssets-Lin%2BManuel%2BMiranda.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 23, 26); color: #14171a; display: inline; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #14171a;">NPR Weekend Edition with Lulu Garcia-Navarro in conversation with author Maria Hinojosa for <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/912335900" target="_blank">launch interview of new memoir ONCE I WAS YOU</a>. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #14171a;">Listen to the extended version of Maria with Lulu Garcia-Navarro on <a href="https://www.latinousa.org/2020/09/15/onceiwasyou/" target="_blank">LatinoUSA, here. </a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #14171a;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #14171a;">Check out Maria Hinojosa's ONCE I WAS YOU virtual book tour beginning Tuesday 9/15/20!<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Up3b3zyntGs/X1-p_1TpuwI/AAAAAAAACmk/z0bNQNu38YwPZi34O6_BN71FhtaEWUr_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/77421-OnceIWasYou-EventGraphics-ALL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Up3b3zyntGs/X1-p_1TpuwI/AAAAAAAACmk/z0bNQNu38YwPZi34O6_BN71FhtaEWUr_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/77421-OnceIWasYou-EventGraphics-ALL.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #14171a;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p><br /><p></p><p><u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 23, 26); color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Praise for ONCE I WAS YOU by Maria Hinojosa:</span></span></span></b></u></p><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>The New York Times</i> Editors' Choice 2020 </b></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“A powerful memoir that doubles as an essential immigration primer.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Publishers Weekly (starred)</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Written in Latina journalist Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice, <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i> is, quite simply, beautiful.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– BookPage (starred)</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is many books in one, a searingly honest memoir by one of this country’s most accomplished women, an inside view of the media, and a fact-filled indictment of our treatment of immigrants over time. Because Maria Hinojosa identifies with each one, anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story of what’s wrong and how to change it.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“In these times of love and hate, Maria Hinojosa’s astonishing story is medicine, healing, illumination. She swallows fear as if she were a circus performer swallowing fire. She encourages, inspires, and challenges us to find our own courage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a dazzling gift she has bestowed upon us and America.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“As a POC journalist, feminist, survivor of sexual assault, and truth-teller, Maria Hinojosa is tough as nails. This expressive and captivating book not only reveals how she has fought to tell stories that are so often silenced by the mainstream media, but also lays bare the deep fissures in our politics and our society.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is essential reading for anyone who wants America to do better.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Jane Fonda, actor and activist</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Maria’s perspective is powerful and vital. Years ago, when <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">In the Heights</i> was just starting off-Broadway, Maria got the word out to our community to support this new musical about our neighborhoods. She has been a champion of our triumphs, a critic of our detractors, and a driving force to right the wrongs our society faces. When Maria speaks, I’m ready to listen and learn.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and original star of Hamilton</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Maria Hinojosa writes about her life, her family, and her immigrant story in ways that will inspire you and break your heart—because that is what the immigration story is in America: part inspiration, hope, and triumph; part rejection, struggle, and heartbreak. Maria’s voice rings loud and clear, and her battle cry for America’s immigrants of color is both poignant and necessary.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Joy-Ann Reid, host of MSNBC's AM Joy</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I’ve known and admired Maria for many years. She is truly an outstanding journalist. I loved reading<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America</i>.
It was so personal and moving, and told a very timely and critically
important story for all Americans. I learned a lot about Maria, but more
importantly, I learned a lot about what’s going on in so many parts of
our country. Thanks, Maria, for writing this powerful book.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Wolf Blitzer, lead political anchor for CNN</span></span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“I loved this heart wrenching, yet ultimately hopeful, book. Maria Hinojosa’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>puts you in the shoes of frightened immigrant children while laying out a path from fear to success. A guide to joy and empowerment—even in the hard-knock business of journalism—this story is a must-read for anyone who ever wondered how an immigrant could possibly love an America that has always undervalued newcomers.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Esther J. Cepeda, nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post Writers Group</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Once I Was You</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>throws down, proving that Maria Hinojosa is beyond bad assery: esta mujer es una chingona to be reckoned with. In warm, journalistic prose, Hinojosa unfurls a map of una vida extraordinaria that shows her developing, nurturing, and sustaining a career best described as iconoclastic. Her skills as a writer and reporter enable her to trace the ugly contours of US racial politics as she simultaneously narrates a compulsively readable autobiography. Quedé inspirada and perhaps you will too.”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Myriam Gurba, author of Mean</span></span></p></div><div class="with-margin-bottom-medium" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 2rem; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Maria Hinojosa is hands down one of the most important, respected, and beloved cultural leaders in the Latinx community. . . . Hers is a voice we need to hear at this moment in our country!”</span></span></p><p class="has-text-weight-semibold" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">– Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 23, 26); color: #14171a; display: inline; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 23, 26); color: #14171a; display: inline; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Last day for pre-order sweepstakes is 9/12/2020. Follow @maria_hinojosa on social media for more giveaways and news! </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 23, 26); color: #14171a; display: inline; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; orphans: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;">Two new picture book biographies by award-winning authors now available, just in time for back-to-school! <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;">Monica
Brown's<i><b> SHARUKO: El arqueólogo peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist
Julio C. Tello</b></i> by Monica Brown, beautifully illustrated by Elisa Chavarri ! This
bilingual picture book celebrates one of Peru’s indigenous heroes and has
already received THREE starred reviews!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Julio Tello, an Indigenous
boy, spent time exploring the caves and burial grounds in the foothills of the
Peruvian Andes. Nothing scared Julio, not even the ancient human skulls he
found. His bravery earned him the boyhood nickname Sharuko, which means
"brave" in Quechua, the language of the Native people of Peru. Over
his lifetime, Julio Tello made many revolutionary discoveries at archaeological
sites around Peru, and he worked to preserve the historical treasures he
excavated. He showed that Peru's Indigenous cultures had been established
thousands of years ago, disproving the popular belief that Peruvian culture had
been introduced more recently from other countries. He fostered pride in his
country's Indigenous ancestry, making him a hero to all Peruvians. Because of
the brave man once known as Sharuko, people around the world today know of
Peru's long history and its living cultural legacy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Check out the TeachingBooks
Virtual Book Tour with author Monica Brown as she<a href="https://forum.teachingbooks.net/2020/04/monica-brown-on-sharuko-el-arqueologo-peruano-julio-c-tello-peruvian-archaeologist-julio-c-tello/" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #eb6400;">discusses her inspiration behind</span><span style="color: #eb6400; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> <i>Sharuko</i></span> </a>and
shares kid-friendly activities.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;">Click here to download a <a href="https://www.leeandlow.com/books/sharuko/teachers_guide" target="_blank">FREE Teacher’s Guide</a>.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;"> </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-29BGI08nKMM/X0Nfrt9w5MI/AAAAAAAACkw/yUL52B6p-g0bHmYJPGk4AXV3OMrM4u0agCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Russell-Brown_SHE%2BWAS%2BTHE%2BFIRST%2Bhi%2Bres%2BFC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1676" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-29BGI08nKMM/X0Nfrt9w5MI/AAAAAAAACkw/yUL52B6p-g0bHmYJPGk4AXV3OMrM4u0agCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/Russell-Brown_SHE%2BWAS%2BTHE%2BFIRST%2Bhi%2Bres%2BFC.jpg" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="" style="font-family: "book antiqua", serif;">
</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><i><b><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">She
Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm </span></b></i><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">b</span><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">y Katheryn Russell-Brown illustrated
by Eric Velasquez receives a starred review in <i>Kirkus</i>, calling the book "important history made beautiful and engaging."<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span face="" style="color: black; font-family: "book antiqua", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></span></p>
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people and "catalyst of change" who opened the door for women in the
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voice and leadership to politics, becoming the first Black woman elected to the
New York State Assembly, and in 1968, the first Black woman elected to
Congress. Then in 1972, she became the first Black woman to seek the presidency
of the United States. She pushed for laws that helped women, children,
students, poor people, farm workers, Native people, and others who were often
ignored. She fought for healthcare. She spoke up for military veterans. She
spoke out against war. Discover this important story written by the award-winning author of the Coretta Scott King Honor Book, <b><i>Little Melba and Her Big Trombone</i></b>.<br /></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To celebrate, Adrianna posted a fantastic <a href="https://diversebooks.org/stories-are-how-i-preserve-my-familys-history/">guest post on the We Need Diverse Books Blog</a> about </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">the inspirations for
her debut and preserving family history through writing. </span></span>Adrianna kicked off the week with a virtual book launch hosted by BookPeople and presentation with the American Writers Museum <span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #14171a; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">special exhibit "<a href="http://my-america.org/">My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today.</a>" </span></span></span><br />
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talks to animals --- is already stealing readers' hearts!</span></span> Here is what readers are saying so far: </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">"A marvelous, magical mystery that deftly
blends family, friends, and folklore. Cuevas has crafted a stunning
debut centered around one of the most compelling and lovable new
protagonists in MG fantasy: Nestor Lopez, the big-hearted boy who can
talk to animals. His bittersweet yet exciting adventures had me on the
edge of my seat for hours on end, laughing and crying and biting my
nails in anxiety. I’m so excited for the legions of kids who get to
unpack this stunning debut!”<br />
– <b>David Bowles, author of Texas Bluebonnet Award List, Pura Belpre Honor Book, and Walter Dean Myers Honor Book <i>They Call Me Guero</i> and Pura Belpre Honor Book <i>The Smoking Mirror</i></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Mystery, adventure, humor, friendship, and… talking animals- <i>The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez</i> has it all! Readers will love this funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story.”<br />
– <b>Celia C. Pérez, author of Pura Belpre Honor Book <i>The First Rule of Punk</i> and <i>Strange Birds: A Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers</i></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />"Readers
will devour this fast-paced adventure as they root for Nestor and his
ragtag bunch of friends and animal allies . . . Cuevas brings to life an earthly
type of twisted magic that transcends spells and transfiguration,
extending into the feelings of belonging and finding a true home." — <b><i>Booklist</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i> </i></b><br />"With
this heartwarming debut, Cuevas draws upon Central American legends and
her Cuban heritage to flesh out Nestor’s experiences . . . crafting a
tense, satisfying tale of magic, family, and finding one’s true home." —
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Today’s launch of <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/muslim-women-are-everything-stereotype-shattering-stories-of-courage-inspiration-and-adventure/9780062947031" target="_blank"><b>MUSLIM WOMEN ARE EVERYTHING:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration and Adventure</i></b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by author Seema Yasmin and illustrator Fahmida Azim marks a momentous day for a few reasons.</div>
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It begins with this: it’s a gorgeous, long-overdue tribute to powerful, fascinating, extraordinary women.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>It steps over the carcasses of stereotypes, instead storytelling about Muslim women we ALL should know about, no matter how we identify. </b></div>
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From award-winning songwriters to race car drivers, mathematicians, comedians and more, it’s a literary sisterhood that is good for your bookshelf and good for your soul. </div>
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Start here: take whatever you think you know about Muslim women, and turn it on its head. Perhaps start with historical women, maybe read about the one who started the first university. Or be honest with yourself about the outfit that flashed in your head when I wrote “Muslim women”... and now imagine her shredding metal on an electric guitar.</div>
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As you flip through the book, it feels like it comes together so naturally; Fahmida’s dreamy artistic style, the spirited facial expressions that look straight at you, Seema’s poetic, impassioned recounting of why she admires each woman is simply contagious.</div>
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This book is a triumph of artistic perseverance. They define #ownvoices, taking ownership of their religious experience and writing and painting it from a place of authenticity that we just don’t see enough. They created the book that didn’t exist but they knew should. No one had sat down to write or paint a compilation of Muslim women in this way before, something that is shocking to type in the year <i>2020</i>. </div>
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They didn’t do it because of an opportunity, they did it because it was boiling up in their blood as a story they were born to tell. </div>
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Equally important: this book is a labor of love, with a unique origin story that every aspiring author or illustrator needs to know.</div>
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The book began, as very few significant works of literature do, in the opposite form: as a tweet. </div>
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The tweet became an article (a really pissed off, sarastic article about how Muslim women “do things”, i.e. ride a bike, drink a coffee).</div>
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Then, the artist had a conversation with a beloved editor friend of mine who thought my background might give me an interesting perspective on her work. </div>
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We grabbed coffee. We hit it off. She joined the Full Circle family. </div>
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Her creative partner, the author, already had two books under her belt. She didn’t need an agent…or, wait, did she?! She signed on too.</div>
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We created a new trio, brainstormed the book a number of different ways, poured sweat over a proposal, and set around town, proposal in hand.</div>
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It was not overnight.</div>
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It wasn’t understood by every publishing house that saw it.</div>
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It was undervalued by some.</div>
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It wasn’t even an offer on the concept they started with.</div>
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But it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>was</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a dream publisher, with show stopping production capabilities. </div>
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It was an editor who understood their mission and felt the importance of the book in her heart.</div>
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It was a publisher committed to giving their big artistic vision full support. </div>
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They worked on a maddeningly short deadline to create a beautiful tome that cuts no corners. They worked their dayjobs (Stanford professor and journalist and graphic designer) writing and painting in the free time they didn’t have. Each word is painstakingly chosen, each illustration is rendered and edited and perfected. This book isn’t from their keyboard or their brush - it’s from their heart, poured onto the page. If you are able to read the introduction to Seema Yasmin’s writing and put it down, check your heartbeat. If you can look at one of Fahmida’s illustrations and glance away, check your eyes. </div>
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When my agent copies arrived and I tore open the box, I gasped. Even after a year of looking at these images and reviewing the text over and over again, I was moved. </div>
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As you, dear reader, likely know, Full Circle is devoted to raising up underrepresented voices. I still can’t believe a book like this didn’t already exist, and I’m honored to be part of the story that has made sure it does. </div>
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The result is one of the books I’m most proud of representing in my 17+ year literary career. </div>
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<b>I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and understand why.</b></div>
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<b>Order Muslim Women Are Everything by Seema Yasmin, illustrated by Fahmida Azim now and take a look at few sample spreads here!</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b> </b></div>
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Available now through your local bookstore, indiebound, or <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/muslim-women-are-everything-stereotype-shattering-stories-of-courage-inspiration-and-adventure/9780062947031">Bookshop.org</a> here.<br />
Listen to an <a href="https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780062947055">audio excerpt narrated by the author Seema Yasmin</a> here. . </div>
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