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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy |Betty Carter
Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys by Rob Peñas; illus. by Carl AngelPrimary Lee & Low 40 pp. 4/24 9781620145746 $20.95Born in 1896 under Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, Pedro Flores immigrated to the United States as a teenager. It wasn’t until years later—after he had worked in Hawaiian pineapple fields, on steamships in the Pacific, and at a hotel in California—that he produced the first Flores yo-yo.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
Thomas Jefferson’s Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose! by Beth Anderson; illus. by Jeremy HolmesPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp. 5/24 9781635926200 $18.99e-book ed. 9781635928624 $11.99As a product of the Age of Reason, Thomas Jefferson was long fascinated by science in general and the natural world in particular.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Danielle Ford |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
City of Leafcutter Ants: A Sustainable Society of Millions by Amy Hevron; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 6/24 9780823453184 $18.99In the rainforests of Central America, leafcutter ants live in colonies of up to “eight million sisters.” Likening the colonies to human cities, Hevron shows how the division of labor across ant subgroups keeps a colony functioning.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Pauletta Brown Bracy |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Betty Carter
A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Khalif Tahir ThompsonPrimary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 48 pp. 4/24 9780062911032 $19.99In an expressive second-person text addressed to her subject, Weatherford celebrates the life and legacy of the esteemed novelist, professor, and Nobel Laureate.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Julie Hakim Azzam |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
Rumi: Poet of Joy and Love by Rashin Kheiriyeh; illus. by the authorPrimary NorthSouth 40 pp. 3/24 9780735845442 $19.95Young readers are introduced to the thirteenth-century poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic Rumi in this accessible picture-book biography that spans much of its subject’s childhood and adult life.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Laura Koenig |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life by Patricia McCormick and Mevan Babakar; illus. by Yas ImamuraPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp. 5/24 9780063056992 $19.99When her family must flee their beloved home in Kurdistan, young Mevan’s status as a refugee makes her feel smaller and smaller until she makes herself invisible.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jonathan Hunt |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 6/24 9780823452286 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before it gradually descends to the depths of the ocean floor. But it doesn’t stop there: her body will sustain life of one kind or another for the next few hundred years.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jennifer M. Brabander |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape by Sam Nakahira; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Getty 112 pp. 3/24 9781947440098 $19.95This graphic-format biography of Japanese American artist Asawa (1926–2013) begins on December 7, 1941, as teenage Ruth and her farming family hear that Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor. Soon the FBI arrests her father (“They think he’s dangerous?
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 384 pp. 3/24 9781338749571 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338749588 $19.99Bletchley Park, a World War II cryptology center, operated in the English countryside where an extensive and complicated code-breaking operation allowed the Allies to decipher secret messages sent through German Enigma machines.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Eric Carpenter |Marva Hinton |Naomi Yamada |Pauletta Brown Bracy
The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts by Dawn CusickIntermediate, Middle School Chicago Review 216 pp. 2/24 9781641608954 $19.99e-book ed. 9781641608978 $12.99Chimpanzees were “America’s first astronauts,” but what did their missions entail, and how did their voyages help NASA send humans into space? Cusick’s well-researched look at the primates’ training and flights provides details for an area of the space race typically relegated to a footnote.
