Gabriel’s Story by David Anthony Durham is one of those books that I saw mentioned somewhere (but for the life of me I can’t figure out where), I immediately put on hold at the library, and when I brought it home, everything else I was reading got put down and it cut in line from [...]
Please forgive my rambling for a bit. Let me start off by saying that I know NOTHING about baseball. My only experience with the sport is when I lived in Chicago I went to a Sox game once and when I was in my early twenties I was playing a game of softball (not baseball [...]
In Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham, ten-year-old Ludelphia Bennett only knows one way of life and that is sharecropping and the people in her small town. In fact, she’s never left the town at all or explored the surrounding communities. Life is relatively simple and happy but not without its sorrow as her mother [...]
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change by Michelle Cook was inspired by the phrase “Rosa sat so Martin could march. Martin marched so Barack could run. Barack an so our children can soar!” Each spread highlights key figures in African American history including George Washington Carver, Jesse [...]
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden and illustrated by Don Tate is the fictionalized account of a real incident which happened in astronaut Ron McNair’s life when he was ten years old. Ron McNair lost his life in 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff. But losing his [...]