Kids Book Index
Crystal Simone Smith
Dark Testament collects the poems of civil rights activist Pauli Murray, bringing her only poetry volume back into print. The collection is described through comparisons to Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhythmic speech and Langston Hughes’s lyric poetry. Its 2018 Liveright edition appears amid renewed public attention to Murray’s life, including a New Yorker profile and other published work about her.
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Give Me a SignAnna SortinoAnna Sortino’s debut novel introduces Lilah, seventeen, who is employed by a camp serving blind and Deaf children. The experience asks her to confront her own severe deafness, accept it more fully, and find a place within the Deaf community. It also portrays first love and Deaf pride while exploring the breadth and complexities of Deaf culture in its different dimensions as well.Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Run and HideDon Brown, illustrated by Don BrownTHE FIRST NOVEL IN TWENTY YEARS BY THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER 'A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' JENNIFER EGAN 'Terrific . . . elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'A book that demands…Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
From HereLuma MuflehA New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the…Ninth to Twelfth GradeOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details