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Aug 31, 2024 | 
slj.com | Elisa Boxer |Tamara Saarinen |Kate Allen |Nessa Diab
Gr 2-5–“I was supposed to be destroyed.” This is the opening line and the refrain of this provocative story of a White House beam removed during the 1952 rebuild. The beam recounts history it witnessed: 400 rabbis coming to the White House in 1943 to ask President Roosevelt to allow European Jews entry (they were turned away), a piano leg coming through the ceiling in 1948, and the partial demolition and rebuild of the White House. The beam was “Salvaged. Sent to a storage warehouse.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
slj.com | Kate Fox |Jenny Arch |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn
K-Gr 3–A diverse group of family members and friends gather on a West Coast beach to celebrate the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, with a bonfire and good company.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn |Chelsea Clinton
Gr 4-6–This comprehensive guide will empower all kids to turn their frustrations with injustice into action. Through colorful graphics, easy-to-comprehend charts, and informational sections, Rocha and Leatherdale take typically complex information and break it down into a middle grade-friendly format. Pulling from her experience as a youth activist, Rocha combines personal experience with brief interviews from other young activists to encourage readers that they can make a difference.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Elisabeth LeBris |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn |Chelsea Clinton
by (text) & illus. by Ruth Chan . Sept. 2024. 288p. Tr $22.99. ISBN 9781250855336. COPY ISBN Gr 4-8–Chan perfectly captures the voice of her 13-year-old self in this graphic memoir. Moving from Toronto to Hong Kong sends Ruth into a panic. She will be leaving her very best friends, she barely speaks any Cantonese, and her brother won’t be there. Her father’s job will take him to China for long stretches, leaving Ruth the sole target for her mother’s high expectations.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Lynne Stover |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn
. (She Persisted). Sept. 2024. 96p. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780593623565. COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–This enlightening biography focuses on Dolores Huerta, who was born in 1930 in New Mexico. From a young age, Huerta exhibited a visionary spirit, recognizing the importance of helping others in her community. Despite being the only Mexican American in her college classes, she pursued her education and became a teacher, setting the stage for a lifelong dedication to advocacy.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Laura Ellis |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn |Helena Haraštová
PreS-Gr 2–Veronica’s parents host a party as they are expecting twins. It’s a time of great celebration. Veronica looks and sees all the people who have come to express their happiness for her family; she has all types of feelings, but happiness is not one of them. She looks around; some of the people she knows, and some she doesn’t. She notices that there are families that are not like hers. Most of all, Veronica has a lot of questions that she isn’t sure how to ask.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Myra Zarnowski |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn |Chelsea Clinton
Gr 2-5–In descriptive and poetic language, this book reveals how reading and writing were powerful motivators for young James Baldwin. Growing up in Harlem, he was drawn to the language he heard around him and to the books he found in the library. As he grew up, the impact of reading and writing on his life continued to grow, leading him to a career as a celebrated writer.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Mary Ray |Kimberly Olson Fakih |Nessa Diab |Chelsea Clinton
. Sept. 2024. 44p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781797214580. COPY ISBN K-Gr 4–With everything in common with Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak’s A Hole Is to Dig, Ray and Sala offer children a rare picture book look at rocks and what they are good for. Some are to climb on, as every parent has witnessed, and some are just right for putting in a pocket while others can be stacked. Some can be lined up in neat rows, mapping out the rooms of a temporary house.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
slj.com | Carole Weatherford |Kirsten Caldwell |Nessa Diab |Mary Lyn
PreS-Gr 4–On a North Carolina farm, a young boy named (1919–2013) loved tinkering and fixing things; he grew up to become an inventor. He created a wind-powered washing machine, turned a bike into a motorcycle, and ran a machine repair shop. After getting injured in his 60s, Simpson needed a hobby and chose to turn spare parts and scrap metal into giant windmills. Eventually, his windmill-filled farm became a tourist attraction.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com | Colin Kaepernick |Nessa Diab
Our mission is to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders. By: Colin Kaepernick & Nessa DiabIllustrated by: Gladys Jose We have some amazing news for you. Our founders, Colin and Nessa in partnership with Scholastic, announced plans to publish the picture book We Are Free, You & Me in the US and Canada on October 1, 2024.
