Revolution, by Deborah Wiles published in 2014 by Scholastic Press 544 pages Of all the new novels I read last year, Revolution is definitely in my top three. It’s the superb, second installment in Deborah Wiles’ Sixties Trilogy, coming on …
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still walking toward that dream…five to celebrate MLK Day 2015
A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream, by Kristy Dempsey, illustrated by Floyd Cooper published in 2014 by Philomel Books “On November 13, 1951, four years before singer Marian Anderson’s Metropolitan Opera debut, dancer Janet Collins became the first African …
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do not look away…three books of weighty civil rights history
Monday is MLK Day, 2015. I’ll have a list of five picture books then to add to those you can already find in the Subject Index. Today I have three heftier books, each unpacking a critical moment in the struggle …
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