Amira Rose

Jun 7, 2024 | slj.com | Tracey Hodges |Amira Rose |Michael Long

. May 2024. 40p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063056992. COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–“His gift made Mevan feel a hundred feet tall,” conveys the tone of this story about a young girl as her family flee Kurdistan and the behest of the Iraqi government. They are not welcome in Turkey or Russia, and eventually end up in the Netherlands. There, the gift of a bicycle helps Mevan adjust. The events of this story are true, related in an omniscient third person and based on co-author Babakar’s childhood.

Jun 7, 2024 | slj.com | Ann Bausum |Chance Lee Joyner |Amira Rose |Michael Long

by (text) & illus. by Solomon Hughes . Apr. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781478886426. COPY ISBN Gr 4 Up–This lyrical telling of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days weaves three different texts together: the story of his trip to Memphis told by an omniscient narrator, King’s “Mountaintop” speech delivered the day before he was assassinated, and a gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey that King requested before he was shot.