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Sep 30, 2024 | 
abc.com | Dana Bash |Uzo Aduba |Michael Eric Dyson
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
newinbooks.com | Royce Roeswood |Michael Eric Dyson |Jack Selvaggio |Janina Franck
in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, News, Young Adult
6 Genre Bending YA AdventuresGet ready to explore new realms with our list of six genre-bending YA adventures! These captivating stories blend fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, pushing the boundaries of traditional storytelling. Perfect for those who crave something fresh and exhilarating, these novels promise to take you on unforgettable journeys.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
abc.com | Uzo Aduba |Michael Eric Dyson
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
abc.com | Uzo Aduba |Michael Eric Dyson
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
abc.com | Uzo Aduba |Michael Eric Dyson |Connie Chung
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau |Christina Soontornvat |Isabel Roxas
“The Story of Kamala Harris: An Inspiring Biography for Young People” by Tonya Leslie and illustrated by Juanita Londoño comes out Sept. 24. Photo: Callisto KidsUntil mid-July, the 2024 presidential election looked to be a gloomy remake of 2020 but this time with a forgone conclusion. Then everything changed. Headline: Biden out. Harris in. The race is on. The recast Harris vs. Trump match-up has turned exciting, and so has a pile of recent books geared to this election season.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
chicago.suntimes.com | Michael Eric Dyson
In his formidably imaginative autopsy of our 37th president, Nixon Agonistes, Gary Wills also rebukes Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential opponent Hubert Humphrey, who announced his run for the Oval Office by embracing “the politics of happiness, politics of purpose, politics of joy.” Wills writes that there “was something in the atmosphere that made it seem fairly obscene for a presidential candidate, in a country that admires ‘happy warriors’ and the banishing of fear, to use the phrase...
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric DysonAugust 11, 2024 at 6:00 AM·5 min readOn the same day that former President Trump claimed before a national gathering of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black person,” his running mate Sen. JD Vance accused Harris of being a “phony” who “grew up in Canada” (she attended high school in Montreal) and used “a fake Southern accent” at a rally.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Ben Brashares |Christina Soontornvat |Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau
Twelve-year-olds from Millerton, N.J., communicate across time in this high-stakes series launch from siblings Ann (The Whole Thing Together) and Ben Brashares (The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection). In 2023, former best friends Henry, Frances, and Lukas are burying their deceased shared gerbil when they unearth a rusting radio. Henry moves it to his family’s tool shed, where it inexplicably powers up and starts transmitting on it’s own.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Sally Nicholls |Christina Soontornvat |Michael Eric Dyson |Marc Favreau
Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Júlia Sardà. Candlewick, $17.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-536223-31-6While white-cued Marta Buchelli’s mother works as a maid in the Hotel Balzaar, Marta ponders the art in the hotel’s once grand lobby, yearns for her soldier father’s return, and stays out of sight and quiet as a mouse. Despite her efforts, she is noticed by a countess accompanied by green-feathered parrot Blitzkoff (“once a man who was a very great general”).
