Tag search:Kirkus starred review

Dark and Deepest Red

by Anna-Marie Mclemore
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, GENDER, LGBTQIA, TEEN, Mexican American, Romani, transgender, trans man, Magical Realism — 2 more, fantasy, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1746
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Rick Riordan Presents Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (A Pandava Novel Book 3) (Pandava Series, 3)

by Roshani Chokshi
Paperback, 2021
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, MIDDLE GRADES, India, series, fantasy, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
The Pandava Quintet (3)
Barcode
1685
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Sacrifice (Serpentine)

by Cindy Pon
Paperback, 2016
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, fantasy, Chinese, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
The Kingdom of Xia (4), Serpentine (2)
Barcode
1683
Status
Available

Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees

by Deborah Ellis
Paperback, 2010
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, Iraq, NON-FICTION, War, MIDDLE GRADES, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1682
Status
Available
Call number
305.2308691409567

Day of Tears

by Julius Lester
Paperback, 2007
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, historical fiction, slavery, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1641
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, slavery, enslavement, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1642
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

Root Magic

by Eden Royce
Paperback, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, MIDDLE GRADES, Gullah, coming of age, Segregation, Kirkus Starred Review, twins
Barcode
1644
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Aru Shah and the Song of Death (A Pandava Novel Book 2) (Pandava Series, 2)

by Roshani Chokshi
Paperback, 2020
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, MIDDLE GRADES, series, India, fantasy, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
The Pandava Quintet (2)
Barcode
1686
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

No Safe Place

by Deborah Ellis
Paperback, 2011
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, TEEN, Iraq, Russia, Kurd, Romani, War, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1636
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving Story

by Danielle Greendeer
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, Wampanoag, Thanksgiving, holidays, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1745
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, writer, biography, poetry, history, science fiction, civil rights — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1731
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

by Malinda Lo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
LGBTQIA, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, historical fiction, Kirkus Starred Review, San Francisco, racism, prejudice
Barcode
1729
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

How Do You Dance?

by Thyra Heder
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, dance, self expression, body positivity, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1718
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Year We Learned to Fly

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, ancestors, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1715
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

All My Rage: A Novel

by Sabaa Tahir
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
IMMIGRANTS, FAMILIES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, TEEN, Pakistani-American, Islam, loss, loss of parent, addiction, alcoholism — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1724
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope

by Patrice Caldwell Editor
Paperback, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, TEEN, FICTION, fantasy, science fiction, Short stories, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1723
Status
Available
Call number
813.010806

My Two Border Towns

by David Bowles
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review, sharing, caring, helping, bilingual
Barcode
1712
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Dark Water

by Laura McNeal
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, FAMILIES, TEEN, Kirkus Starred Review, coming of age
Barcode
1705
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor

by Robert Burleigh
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, scientist, science, curiosity, Kirkus Starred Review, pioneer, biography, oceanology, oceans, continental drift — 1 more, earth
Barcode
1703
Status
Available
Call number
526.092

We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))

by Russell Freedman
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, JUSTICE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, resistance, anti-semitism, WWII, Nazis, White Rose movement, youth resistance, Holocaust — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1629
Status
Available
Call number
943.086092

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, biography, author, writer, pioneer, Kirkus Starred Review, bisexuality
Barcode
1627
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

Your Mama

by NoNieqa Ramos
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, motherhood, Kirkus Starred Review, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN
Barcode
1623
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson

by Jennifer Berne
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, biography, poetry, Emily Dickinson, Kirkus Starred Review, curiosity, imagination, writer, writing
Barcode
1622
Status
Available
Call number
811.4

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

Prairie Lotus

by Linda Sue Park
Paperback, 2022
Tags
women & girls, MIDDLE GRADES, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Native American, Chinese-American, Kirkus Starred Review, historical fiction, Ihanktonwan, Mixed race
Barcode
1608
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Watercress

by Andrea Wang
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, FAMILIES, Chinese-American, loss of sibling, Kirkus Starred Review, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS
Barcode
1612
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Art of Protest: Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution

by De Nichols
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, JUSTICE, activism, art, NONFICTION, inspiration, creativity, Kirkus Starred Review, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1602
Status
Available
Call number
701.03

When You Hear Me (You Hear Us): Voices on Youth Incarceration

by Free Minds Writers
Paperback, 2021
Tags
TEEN, ADULT, JUSTICE, incarceration, school to prison pipeline, criminal legal system, youth, NONFICTION, anthology, own voices, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1595
Status
Available
Call number
811.608

We Are Wolves: New World War Two historical fiction for 2021, for children aged 9

by Katrina Nannestad
Paperback, 2021
Tags
MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, JUSTICE, war, World War II, abandonment, survival, Kirkus Starred Review, Germany, WOMEN AND GIRLS
Barcode
1593
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

by Rebecca Hall
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
ADULT, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, Kirkus Starred Review, history, NON-FICTION, graphic
Barcode
1592
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

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

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

Max on the Farm (Max and Friends)

by Kyle Lukoff
Paperback, 2020
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, LGBTQIA, GENDER, transgender, gender identity, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1589
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Too Bright to See

by Kyle Lukoff
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUVENILE, LGBTQIA, GENDER, transgender, coming out, gender identity, Kirkus Starred Review, Stonewall Book Award, MIDDLE GRADES
Barcode
1587
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

by Candacy Taylor
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, history, civil rights, NON-FICTION, Segregation, travel, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1586
Status
Available
Call number
305.800973

To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood

by Emma Brown
Paperback, 2022
Tags
ADULT, GENDER, parenting, education, Kirkus Starred Review, sexuality education, consent, violence
Barcode
1585
Status
Available
Call number
649.132

It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

by Kyo Maclear
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Japanese American, Japanese internment, JUSTICE, artist, art, biography, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1584
Status
Available
Call number
741.6092

Lubna and Pebble

by Wendy Meddour
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, Friendship, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1582
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Dragonwings

by Laurence Yep
Paperback, 2001
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, MIDDLE GRADES, Chinese-American, aviation, Kirkus Starred Review, Newberry Honor Book
Series
Golden Mountain Chronicles (5)
Barcode
1579
Status
Available
Call number
812.54

Dragonwings

by Laurence Yep
Paperback, 2001
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, MIDDLE GRADES, Chinese-American, aviation, Kirkus Starred Review, Newberry Honor Book
Series
Golden Mountain Chronicles (5)
Barcode
1578
Status
Available
Call number
812.54

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

Aaron Slater, Illustrator

by Andrea Beaty
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, BODIES AND ABILITIES, PICTURE BOOK, learning differences, dyslexia, art, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
The Questioneers, Questioneers Picture Books
Barcode
1575
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

All We Need

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

Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched into History

by Leah Henderson
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, LGBTQIA, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, BODIES AND ABILITIES, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, MIDDLE GRADES, Kenya — 10 more, Bulgaria, South Africa, environmental justice, environmentalism, civil rights, equality, Activism, Children's rights, Kirkus Starred Review, Africa
Barcode
1577
Status
Available
Call number
303.48

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

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

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

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

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

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
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