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Mama's Girl
Growing up in the 1970s in a home plagued by violence, divorce, and double standards, the award-winning author (who wrote this memoir in her 20s) struggled to exceed low expectations and a fraught relationship with her mother...
Grandma's Records/Los discos de mi abuela
Gr 1–3—Each year, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother in her apartment in Spanish Harlem listening to her records...
Secret Saturdays
Gr 5–8—Friends Justin and Sean, both 12, live in the Red Hook projects in Brooklyn, are Puerto Rican and African American, and have absentee fathers...
On a Clear Day
Gr 7–10—In one of his last books, the former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature ventured into the dystopian genre...
Show and Prove
Gr 8 Up—Set in 1983 in the South Bronx, this coming-of-age tale by Afro-Latina Quintero presents the friendship between African American Smiles and Puerto Rican Nike against the backdrop of hip-hop, Reaganomics, and war in the Middle East...
Pelé, King of Soccer/Pelé, El rey del fútbol
Gr 1–3—A bilingual picture book biography about Pelé, the first man in the history of the sport to score 1,000 goals and become a living legend...
“Lunar Chronicles” Goes Graphic: Marissa Meyer on “Wires and Nerve”
After five books, a short story collection, and a coloring book, Marissa Meyer decided to expand the sci-fi series with a graphic novel, Wires and Nerve.
APALA, Bloomer, YALSA Awards Announced | ALA Midwinter 2017
The Youth Media Awards aren't the only prizes in town. SLJ rounds up other children's and young adult selection lists announced during the 2017 ALA Midwinter Meeting.
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
Gr 7 Up—Turner reconstructs the life and legacy of "Japan's greatest samurai," the 12th-century warrior Minamoto Yoshitsune, from his childhood to his rise as a reckless and awe-inspiring fighter...
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