Sharee Miller
3) New in Town
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
2024 Golden Kite Award Winner • An NPR and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
“I want to be friends with them all” — Vashti Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener about the Curlfriends, four...
2024 Golden Kite Award Winner • An NPR and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
“I want to be friends with them all” — Vashti Harrison, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
New Kid meets The Baby-sitters Club in this graphic novel series opener about the Curlfriends, four...
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"In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp"-- Provided by publisher.
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Third-grader Shai is already busy with her mother away and the Student Orchestra's benefit concert coming up, but when she spots a stray in her backyard, she recruits Emmie to help her catch it in order to find it a home. However, the rescue project doesn't go as planned.
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"Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism, this topic-driven book offers clear, concrete language and compelling imagery to introduce the concept of justice. This book aims to ground the idea of justice within the responsibilities and benefits of being part of a healthy community. The backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion"-- Provided by publisher.
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"I wish I didn't know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cooking in Oakland..."
Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California.
But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn to spend the summer with their mother in Oakland, Cecile is nothing like
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