These two books feature strong male tween characters.
Book 1: Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Book 2: The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes
365 Black Books Green Friday
Today’s books focus on the Green Book, the travel guide for African Africans.
Book 1: Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin Alexander Ramsey; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Book 2: Driving the Green Book by Alvin Hall
Book 3: Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
Book Review: Shame the Stars
Reviewed by Araceli Méndez Hintermeister DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Eighteen-year-old Joaquin del Toro’s future looks bright. With his older brother in the priesthood, he’s set to inherit his family’s Texas ranch. He’s in love with Dulceña and she’s in love with him. But it’s 1915, and trouble has been brewing along the US-Mexico border. On […]
via Book Review: Shame the Stars by Guadalupe Garcia McCall — Latinxs in Kid Lit
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