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Published: July 22, 2021
Books of the month:
Books of the month:
Elementary
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston
This vibrant picture book biography follows Zora Neale Hurston’s life from her early fascination with stories, to her struggles to get an education, to her fieldwork in anthropology, to her, at last, reaching the sun, writing books, and sharing stories.
Middle Grade
We Belong
We Belong
In this novel in free verse, half-Filipino, half-white Stella and her younger sister Luna get a bedtime story of a Tagalog myth and their mother Elsie’s immigration to the United States from the Philippines.
Young Adult
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
Based on his autobiography, this novel in verse follows the life of Nicaraguan author Rubén Darío from his abandonment by his mother to his early fame as the Poet Boy of Central America to his growth as an artist and person as he traveled the world. (Also available in Spanish as Con una estrella en la mano: Rubén Darío.)
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