Tag search:Kirkus starred review

I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket

by Ed Young
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, Nepal, grandparents, caring, elder care, kindness, fable, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2050
Status
Available
Call number
398.2

Can You Hear The Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest

by Peter Wohlleben
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
JUSTICE, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES, NONFICTION, environmentalism, forest, nature, Kirkus Starred Review, science, environmental justice
Barcode
2211
Status
Available
Call number
582.16

Sisters of the Neversea

by Cynthia L Smith
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, FAMILIES, MIDDLE GRADES, fantasy, Muscogee, Creek, GENDER, LGBTQIA, Two-Spirit, gender equity — 5 more, environmentalism, family separation, blended families, Kirkus Starred Review, Peter Pan
Barcode
2071
Status
Available
Call number
813.00

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

The Authentics

by Abdi Nazemian
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, Iranian-american, TEEN, FICTION, LGBTQIA, Kirkus Starred Review, identity, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
Barcode
434
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

My Rainbow

by DeShanna Neal
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, BODIES AND ABILITIES, own voices, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, transgender, autism, hair, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1265
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Being You: A First Conversation About Gender (First Conversations)

by Megan Madison
Board book, 2021
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, BOARD BOOK, gender identity, transgender, feminism, body positivity, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
First Conversations
Barcode
1755
Status
Available
Call number
305.3

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

by Paula Yoo
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, TEEN, NONFICTION, civil rights, violence, court case, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1753
Status
Available
Call number
305.895

Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz: The Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States (Spanish and English Edition)

by Warren Binford Compiler
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, LATINX, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, detention, family separation, NONFICTION, bilingual, English/Spanish, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2171
Status
Available
Call number
362.87092

Proud (Young Readers Edition): Living My American Dream

by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, RELIGION, GENDER, NON-FICTION, autobiography, biography, memoir, 10 - 13 years, MIDDLE GRADES, Muslim — 1 more, Kirkus Starred review
Barcode
922
Status
Available
Call number
796.862092

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

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

All Night, All Day: A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals

by Ashley Bryan
Hardcover, 1991
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, music, songs, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2176
Status
Available
Call number
782.25

The Sky at Our Feet

by Nadia Hashimi
Paperback, 2019
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, BODIES AND ABILITIES, MIDDLE GRADES, Afghanistan, Muslim, FAMILIES, single mother, loss, separation, epilepsy, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2149
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

by Sue Macy
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, PICTURE BOOK, 5 - 8 years, grades k - 3, Judaism, Yiddish, Kirkus Starred Review, books, biography
Barcode
1088
Status
Available
Call number
020.75

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

by Isaac Blum
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
RELIGION, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, TEEN, coming of age, Judaism, orthodox, anti-semitism, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1836
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Zara Hossain Is Here

by Sabina Khan
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, RELIGION, LGBTQIA, DIVERSITY, TEEN, FICTION, bisexuality, Muslim, Islam, racism — 3 more, oppression, Immigration, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1671
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

by Natalia Sylvester
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LATINX, BODIES AND ABILITIES, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, TEEN, Kirkus Starred Review, Peru, Mexican American, coming of age, water, hip dysplasia — 1 more, swimming
Barcode
1647
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Birmingham, 1963

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, MIDDLE GRADES, history, American History, black history, civil rights, violence, racism, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2049
Status
Available
Call number
811.6

Beautifully Me

by Nabela Noor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, 3 - 7 years, body positivity, Muslim, Bangladeshi-American, Bengali, own voices — 2 more, Kirkus Starred Review, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
Barcode
1426
Status
Available

Layla's Happiness

by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1129
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

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

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

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

Vote for Our Future!

by Margaret McNamara
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, 4 - 8 years, voting, rights, government, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1230
Status
Available
Call number
324.60973

The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History

by Sandra Neil Wallace
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, protest, civil rights, American History, voting rights, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1662
Status
Available
Call number
323.1196

Different Kinds of Fruit

by Kyle Lukoff
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, FAMILIES, MIDDLE GRADES, Kirkus Starred Review, nonbinary, transgender, trans parent, FICTION, friendship
Barcode
1976
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

Girl Running

by Annette Bay Pimentel
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
GENDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, athlete, running, marathon, gender roles, sexism, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1973
Status
Available
Call number
796.42

Bedtime for Sweet Creatures

by Nikki Grimes
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, FAMILIES, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review, animals
Barcode
2185
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

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

Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today

by Alice Wong Editor
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, DIVERSITY, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, GENDER, LGBTQIA, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, NONFICTION — 18 more, Kirkus Starred Review, cerebral palsy, facial difference, nystagmus, deaf, incarceration, institutionalization, intellectual disability, blindness, deafblind, multiple sclerosis, wheelchair, incontinence, spina bifida, bipolar, assistive technology, dwarfism, lyme disease
Barcode
1646
Status
Available
Call number
305.9

The People Remember

by Ibi Zoboi
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUVENILE, ages 7 and up, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, RELIGION, Kwanzaa, black history, African diaspora, Kirkus Starred Review, holidays, winter holidays — 1 more, PICTURE BOOK
Barcode
1459
Status
Available
Call number
973.0496073

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

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

When We Say Black Lives Matter

by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, community, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1656
Status
Available
Call number
305.8

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 Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day

by Leah Henderson
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, historical fiction, American History, civil war, holidays, Memorial Day, Kirkus Starred Review, Decoration Day
Barcode
1657
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

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

Pride Colors

by Robin Stevenson
Board book, 2019
Tags
LGBTQIA, BOARD BOOK, Pride, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
697
Status
Available
Call number
535.6

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

Imaginary Borders (Pocket Change Collective)

by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Paperback, 2020
Tags
JUSTICE, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LATINX, TEEN, NONFICTION, Mexican American, Activism, climate change, climate justice, environmental justice, environmentalism — 2 more, sustainability, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Pocket Change Collective
Barcode
2203
Status
Available
Call number
304.2

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

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

by Ahed Tamimi
Paperback, 2023
Tags
ADULT, JUSTICE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Palestine, protest, occupation, memoir, arrest, incarceration, activism, Kirkus starred review — 1 more, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS
Barcode
2075
Status
Available
Call number
956.94

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

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

When Lola Visits

by Michelle Sterling
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, FAMILIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Tagalog, Ilocano, Filipino, grandparents, grandmother, own voices, PICTURE BOOK — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1438
Status
Available
Call number
813.00

The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish

by Lil Miss Hot Mess
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, drag, joy, Kirkus Starred Review, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1975
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

May Your Life Be Deliciosa

by Michael Genhart
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
LATINX, FAMILIES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, winter holidays, holidays, Christmas, Mexican American, cooking, grandparents, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1669
Status
Available
Call number
813.6

The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege

by Brendan Kiely
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
JUSTICE, TEEN, NONFICTION, racism, prejudice, whiteness, white privilege, white supremacy, history, American History, race — 2 more, anti-racism, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1886
Status
Available
Call number
305.809

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
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