Tag search:Kirkus starred review

Last Chance Dance

by Lakita Wilson
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, TEEN, first love, coming of age, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1938
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

And Tango Makes Three

by Justin Richardson
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, FAMILIES, Voices for Trans Youth, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1931
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

by Sheree R. Thomas
Paperback, 2001
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, ADULT, FICTION, speculative fiction, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Dark Matter Anthologies (1)
Barcode
1946
Status
Available
Call number
813.087609896073

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions

by Chris Barton
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, 7 - 10 years, Science, engineering, nonfiction, Kirkus Starred Review, inventors
Barcode
1919
Status
Available
Call number
609.2

Unsettled

by Reem Faruqi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Refugees & immigrants, RELIGION, women & girls, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, MIDDLE GRADES, Own Voices, Islam, Pakistan, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, bullying, coming of age — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1525
Status
Available

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

by Michelle Markel
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, JUSTICE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, RELIGION, workers rights, labor, unions, Yiddish, Jewish — 3 more, factories, Kirkus Starred Review, biography
Barcode
1560
Status
Available
Call number
331.892

The Last Cuentista

by Donna Barba Higuera
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, LATINX, WOMEN AND GIRLS, space travel, storytelling, science fiction, Newberry Award, Pura Belpre Award, Kirkus Starred Review, Mexico
Barcode
1571
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Every Month Is a New Year: Celebrations Around the World

by Marilyn Singer
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
cultures & traditions, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, poetry, Kirkus Starred Review, RELIGION, holidays, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1565
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Plenty of Hugs

by Fran Manushkin
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, FAMILIES, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1614
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dread Nation

by Justina Ireland
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Horror, zombies, reconstruction, Mixed race, biracial, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Dread Nation (1)
Barcode
1965
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

by Anne Ursu
Paperback, 2022
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, MIDDLE GRADES, fantasy, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1961
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies

by Cokie Roberts
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES, history, American History, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1962
Status
Available
Call number
920.72

Deathless Divide (Dread Nation)

by Justina Ireland
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Horror, zombies, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Dread Nation (2)
Barcode
1964
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Danbi's Favorite Day

by Anna Kim
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, Korean, Children's Day, holidays, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1930
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

by Shannon Gibney
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
FAMILIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, TEEN, ADULT, speculative memoir, adoption, transracial adoption, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1937
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Free Radicals

by Lila Riesen
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, Afghan, racism, discrimination, hero, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1940
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review, song, freedom, integration, civil rights, athlete, emancipation, protest — 4 more, Activism, history, black history, American History
Barcode
2167
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series

by Traci Sorell
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, baseball, sports, Ojibwe, Cahuilla, discrimination, JUVENILE, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1927
Status
Available
Call number
796.357

Wishtree

by Katherine Applegate
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, MIDDLE GRADES, discrimination, community, trees, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1917
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Be Strong

by Pat Zietlow Miller
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, DIVERSITY, resilience, bravery, perserverence, leadership, caring, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1590
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Beyond the Gender Binary (Pocket Change Collective)

by Alok Vaid-Menon
Paperback, 2020
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, JUSTICE, TEEN, NONFICTION, nonbinary, memoir, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Pocket Change Collective
Barcode
1943
Status
Available
Call number
305.3

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

by Angela Joy
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, racism, civil rights, activism, Kirkus Starred Review, MIDDLE GRADES, graphic non-fiction, biography
Barcode
1988
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

A Family Is a Family Is a Family

by Sara O'Leary
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
FAMILIES, LGBTQIA, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, multiracial, blended families, single parent, foster care, foster parent, divorce, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2000
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Cape

by Kevin Johnson
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
FAMILIES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, loss, grief, death, memory, remembering, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1989
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

by Laban Carrick Hill
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, music, hip-hop, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, New York, Jamaica, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
875
Status
Available
Call number
782.421649092

No More Police: A Case for Abolition

by Mariame Kaba
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
JUSTICE, ADULT, police reform, police abolition, Kirkus Starred Review, NONFICTION
Barcode
2150
Status
Available
Call number
363.20973

A Voice Named Aretha

by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, music, civil rights, 4 - 8 years, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1118
Status
Available
Call number
782.421644092

There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, black joy, black history, American History, history, poetry, dance, biography, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2170
Status
Available
Call number
818.5209

Saving H'Non: Chang and the Elephant

by Trang Nguyen
Paperback, 2023
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, graphic novel, Vietnam, Vietnamese, environmentalism, animals, animal rights, animal rescue — 4 more, wildlife, elephant, perseverance, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2158
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

We Wait for the Sun

by Katie McCabe
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, memoir, FAMILIES, grandmother, fruit, outdoors, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2166
Status
Available
Call number
340.092

Zora, the Story Keeper

by Ebony Joy Wilkins
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, FICTION, loss, aunt, love, stories, memory — 2 more, death, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2163
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Nana Akua Goes to School

by Tricia Elam Walker
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, Ghana, Akua, adinkra, grandparents, grandmother, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS — 2 more, Kirkus Starred Review, Africa
Barcode
1583
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Home Is Not a Country

by Safia Elhillo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, RELIGION, TEEN, Islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, Sudan, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, Friendship, Kirkus Starred Review — 1 more, Africa
Barcode
1876
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

A Chair for My Mother

by Vera B. Williams
Paperback, 2007
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, FAMILIES, Kindness, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
A Chair for My Mother (1)
Barcode
1544
Status
Available
Call number
813

All We Need

by Kathy Wolff
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, community, gratitude, sharing, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1576
Status
Available

You Matter

by Christian Robinson
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, self-esteem, worth, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1483
Status
Available
Call number
158.1

Sulwe

by Lupita Nyong'o
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, colorism, skin color, self-esteem, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1492
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Saturday

by Oge Mora Artist
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1496
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Stella by Starlight

by Sharon M. Draper
Paperback, 2016
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Kirkus Starred Review, racism, community, hope, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN
Barcode
1521
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices

by S. K. Ali Editor
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, RELIGION, Eid, Mulsim, Islam, joy, sharing, anthology, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1523
Status
Available
Call number
297.3

And Tango Makes Three (Classic Board Books)

by Justin Richardson
Board book, 2015
Tags
LGBTQIA, BOARD BOOK, 4 - 8 years, FAMILIES, Voices for Trans Youth, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1522
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Holi Colors

by Rina Singh
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, BOARD BOOK, Hinduism, holidays, India, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1510
Status
Available
Call number
294.5

Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

by Heidi Tyline King
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, Gullah Geechee, environmentalism, activism, Kirkus Starred Review, WOMEN AND GIRLS
Barcode
1535
Status
Available
Call number
333.72092

Freedom's a-Callin Me

by Ntozake Shange
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, slavery, poetry, art, verse, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1550
Status
Available
Call number
811.54

Other Boys

by Damian Alexander
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, GENDER, LGBTQIA, graphic memoir, bullying, middle school, therapy, self-acceptance, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1549
Status
Available
Call number
373.1826

Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth

by Rachel Sarah
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, JUSTICE, NON-FICTION, climate, environmentalism, environmental justice, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Activism, collective biography, Kirkus Starred Review — 1 more, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1555
Status
Available
Call number
361.2

Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth

by Rachel Sarah
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, JUSTICE, NON-FICTION, climate, environmentalism, environmental justice, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Activism, collective biography, Kirkus Starred Review — 1 more, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1556
Status
Available
Call number
361.2

Maple

by Lori Nichols
Paperback, 2014
Tags
FAMILIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, new baby, siblings, sisters, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1570
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Rae's First Day: The First Story in The Capables Series

by Danny Jordan
Paperback, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, comic, limb differences, superheroes, school, Kirkus Starred Review, series
Barcode
1574
Status
Available

Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

by Christian Staebler
Paperback, 2020
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Native American, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, TEEN, graphic memoir, history, American Indian Movement, social justice, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1460
Status
Available
Call number
782.421660922
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