January's Sparrow

January's SparrowPatricia Polacco's most powerful book since Pink and Say. In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites? including young Sadie? must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind her most valuable possession, the wooden sparrow carved for her by January. Through the Underground Railroad, the Crosswhites make the slow and arduous

But when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead

who makes it his mission to befriend Norris

and domestic violence are feminist fights

Unbothered

Swirling clouds of color

Carole Boston Weatherford’s poetic first-person narrative

" written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation

the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows

including a glossary

Emma Dabiri can tell you the first time she chemically straightened her hair

a twelve-year-old wrestling vlogger who just might know more about wrestling than the wrestlers themselves

Welcome to the Golden Palace