Black/African American Archives - Page 7 of 18

Diverse Novels in Verse for National Poetry Month [in School Library Journal]

25 Apr, by SIBookDragon in African, Biography, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Japanese American, Latina/o/x, Lists, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Repost, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Organized by the Academy of American Poets, National Poetry Month, in April, has been celebrated annually since 1996. While reading, writing, even performing poetry should be a year-round activity, National Poetry Month is a welcome catalyst to get verse newbies and doubters interested and involved. In...

When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, illustrated by Kaylani Juanita [in Shelf Awareness]

03 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost, South Asian American

"When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl." But his name, his room, his clothes just didn't fit. Aidan realized "he was really another kind of boy. It was hard to tell his parents what he knew about himself, it was even harder...

Have Audiobook, Will Travel [in School Library Journal]

01 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, European, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Indian American, Iranian American, Jewish, Korean American, Latin American, Latina/o/x, Lists, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Persian American, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

The luggage is loaded, and the gas tank is full. Destination’s mapped. Ready to go? Press play! MIDDLE GRADE Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh, read by full cast Some of the most beloved, lauded, and awarded children’s authors – including Matt de la Peña,...

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo [in Shelf Awareness]

27 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers

It's the first day of school again, and Emoni Santiago tells her young daughter Emma, more commonly called Babygirl, "make sure you're nice to the other kids and ...

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing [The Carls, Book 1] by Hank Green [in Booklist]

20 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW Neither Green brother is untouched by fame. The elder is that John Green. Hank, famous already as half of YouTube’s multimillion-subscribed “Vlogbrothers,” ascends the bestsellers’ platform with this novel debut, in which he inarguably writes what he knows: social-media-fueled fame. Audio seems an ideal format for Green’s media-savvy...

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney [in Booklist]

07 Feb, by SIBookDragon in African, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Undoubtedly, Bahni Turpin is one of few narrators able to convincingly crisscross the gender spectrum with consistent agility. Here she begins as untethered Kollie, a Liberian immigrant teen in 2008, alternately dismissed and provoked by both white and African American peers at his Minnesota high school, until rage, violence,...

American Like Me: Reflections on Life between Cultures by America Ferrera [in Booklist]

04 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Arab American, Audio, Black/African American, Chinese American, Filipina/o American, Haitian American, Hawaiian, Indian African, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Puerto Rican, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

*STARRED REVIEW “I believe that culture shapes identity and defines possibility; that it teaches us who we are, what to believe, and how to dream.” Actor-activist America Ferrera in her editorial and authorial debut, highlights her distinct Honduran American identity and invites 31 others she “deeply...

Hands Up! by Breanna J. McDaniel, illustrated by Shane W. Evans [in Shelf Awareness]

28 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW "Greet the sun, bold and bright! Tiny hands up!" In star-studded sleeves, two raised brown arms exuberantly face the golden, warming rays, ready to start a new day filled with discovery, growth and, of course, much fun. Mommy and Daddy join the radiant...

Lu [Track series: Book 4] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

12 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

The final title in two-time National Book Award-nominated Jason Reynolds’ popular Track tetralogy (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu) is the third of the series voiced by the author’s childhood friend and anointed collaborator Guy Lockard. Meet “Lucky Lu,” “Lookie Lu,” “Lu the Lightning Bolt,” who’s co-captain...

Sunny [Track series: Book 3] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

11 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers

“Dear Diary” started because Sunny's father wanted him to be "more hushy-hushy" than "yelly-yelly." Writing gave Sunny a place "to put the noise…whenever [he] needed to, which was all the time except for when [he] was running or sleeping." Sunny's a gifted runner yet being...

Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis [in School Library Journal]

10 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly’s mother has just died of cancer when she’s sent from Chicago to Simi Valley, CA, to live with a father she’s never met. At her massive new home, she’s greeted by a white stepmother and four half-sisters because Dr. Anthony Stone’s away...

Five More to Go: Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities [in The Booklist Reader]

08 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Black/African American, Fiction, Lists, Repost, Young Adult Readers

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma With the 2015 debut of The Fisherman, The New York Times rejoiced: “Chigozie Obioma truly is the heir to Chinua Achebe.” Almost four years later, his sophomore title – hitting shelves today – doesn’t disappoint. The story seems familiarly simple: a man...

New Kid by Jerry Craft [in Shelf Awareness]

02 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Twelve-year-old Jordan wanted to go to art school, but instead, his parents enroll the seventh grader in "one of the best schools in the entire state." Although his father expresses concern about Riverdale Academy Day's glaring lack of diversity, his mother insists that with Jordan's...

Five More (Audiobooks) to Go: Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, read by Dion Graham [in The Booklist Reader]

21 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Canadian, Caribbean, Fiction, Repost

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan and read by Dion Graham George Washington Black – called "Wash" for short – is an enslaved 10- or 11-year-old (he "cannot say for certain") on Faith Plantation in 1830s Barbados. He is first owned by one brother, then stolen by another....

New Kids on the Audio Block | Book ’Em Now: Sing, Unburied, Sing’s Audacious Trio [in Booklist]

20 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

Book ’Em Now: Sing, Unburied, Sing’s Audacious Trio Imagine choosing three first-time narrators to voice the next novel from a National Book Award winner. Takes faith! Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones won the 2011 NBA for fiction; six years later, she won her second NBA for...

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan [in Booklist]

18 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Canadian, Caribbean, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The deeply empathetic, decisively chameleonic Dion Graham proves himself to be an ideal aural collaborator for Esi Edugyan’s (Half-Blood Blues, 2012) stupendous novel, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Man Booker Prize. George Washington Black, called “Wash,” is a young slave on Faith Plantation...

We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices: Words and Images of Hope edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson [in Shelf Awareness]

29 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Children/Picture Books, Hapa/Mixed-race, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Poetry, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Inspired by their 7-year-old great-niece's distress over the 2016 elections, Just Us Books’ co-founders Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson created We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices as a contemporary antidote for fear. Recalling their dangerous experiences growing up in the 1950s and...

An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma [in Booklist]

21 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The story seems familiarly simple. A man and a woman fall in love, but their happy-ever-after is fraught with obstacles. Yet nothing is quite that straightforward in Chigozie Obioma’s (The Fishermen, 2015) latest, starting with his narrator, who happens to be a 700-year-old chi...

Buried Lives: The Enslaved People of George Washington’s Mount Vernon by Carla Killough McClafferty [in Shelf Awareness]

14 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When he was just 11 years old, George Washington inherited ownership of 10 human beings. By the time he died in 1799, Washington's estate on the Potomac River, Mount Vernon, was home to 317 enslaved African American men, women, and children: 123 people owned by...

Mostly White by Alison Hart [in Booklist]

13 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost

Blood ties spanning almost a century connect Emma, an Indian Residential School runaway, to her great-granddaughter, Ella, a struggling actor. In 1890 Maine, Emma – born to a Passamaquoddy Native father and an African American mother, is violently uprooted and trapped in a tortuous school...

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