by Betsey | Jun 10, 2021 | Bookmarks, elementary, middle grades
Purchase Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds at Bookmarks. From National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids’ walks home can take. This story was going to...
by Betsey | Jan 24, 2021 | middle grades
Purchase Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly at Bookmarks. In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the Schneider Family Book Award-winning story of a deaf girl’s connection to a whale whose song can’t be heard by his...
by Betsey | Dec 16, 2020 | Bookmarks, elementary, middle grades
Purchase The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser at Bookmarks. The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It’s practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to...
by Betsey | Sep 20, 2020 | Bookmarks, middle grades, teen
Purchase Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky at Bookmarks // By Kwame Mbalia. Winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia’s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world...
by Betsey | Aug 16, 2020 | middle grades, teen
Purchase Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation at Bookmarks // By Anne Frank (text by), David Polonsky (illustrator), Ari Fulman (adapted by) A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young...
by david@extrablack.ws | Aug 12, 2020 | middle grades, poetry
Purchase Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson at Bookmarks Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each...
