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Dec 20, 2024 | 
slj.com | Patricia Buckley |Tamara Saarinen |Amanda MacGregor
. Jan. 2025. 40p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063046979. COPY ISBN Gr 1-5–“They sat with their feet dangling in thirty-five stories of air, eating lunch with the best views in the world. Generation after generation, skywalkers sculpted city skylines that pierced the clouds.” The history of how Iroquois came to be well-known steel workers begins with the Caughnawaga requiring a railroad company to hire their people as workers on a bridge project in exchange for land.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley |Taylor Robin |Emily Taylor
Jenny Goebel. Scholastic Press, $14.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-5461-2500-6Upon first moving from San Francisco to small, rural White Pines, Alaska, due to her mother’s occupation studying renewable energy, sixth grader Lucy Bell-Rodriguez is excited to leave her former bullies behind. Yet she’s disheartened when she’s stuck at home doing remote learning from October to April, waiting out the treacherous Alaskan winter.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Emily Taylor |Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley |Taylor Robin
A teen endeavors to exonerate her father in this pulse-pounding fantasy from Taylor (Hotel Magnifique). The fictional worlds of Leyland, Inverly, and Barrow connect via Written Doors, passages made with scriptomancy—the art of using inked words to harness arcane magic.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Kyle Lukoff |Gavin Grimm |Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley
A transgender teen and a golem aim to dismantle a supernaturally evil conversion therapy program in this satisfying horror-tinged novel by Lukoff (Different Kinds of Fruit). After 14-year-old A Izenson comes out as trans, his Jewish parents force him to attend Save Our Sons and Daughters, a “support group” that’s coercing participating members into backing a politician’s crusade against gender affirming healthcare.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley |Taylor Robin |Emily Taylor
Lana Button, illus. by Suharu Ogawa. Orca, $8.95 paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-4598-4001-0Impulsive and enthusiastic almost-nine-year-old Brianna Ross—who reads as white and is depicted with banana yellow hair—thinks third grade is “as stinky as old cat farts” in this rewarding early reader chapter book that’s reminiscent of Junie B. Jones.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Barbara Dee |Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley |Taylor Robin
Barbara Dee. Aladdin, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-665917-67-4Twelve-year-old, white-cued Freya struggles to relate to her peers, who are put off by her uninhibited enthusiasm. Following a humiliating defeat in the race for class president, Freya vows to keep her views to herself. Then, while researching for a school project, she learns of the sexist writings of the town’s namesake Benjamin Wellstone.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Julia Kuo |Patricia Buckley |Emily Taylor |Taylor Robin
Taylor Robin. Union Square, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-45495-024-0; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-1-4549-5025-7Emery Botwright and bespectacled Neeta Pandey have lived most of their lives sailing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the ocean liner SS Lark.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Patricia Buckley
At 86, Oglala Lakota Native Billy Mills is as sharp as a tack, and vividly recalls how he won the Gold Medal at the 1964 Olympics. He was the first American to top the field in the 10,000-metres race and only the second Indigenous athlete to claim a Gold Medal (Jim Thorpe of the Sac and Fox Nation was first). In 2012, President Obama awarded Mills, who lives in Sacramento, the Presidential Citizens Medal for co-founding Running Strong for American Indian Youth.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Patricia Buckley
As a driving force behind Heartdrum, a HarperCollins imprint devoted to Native American children’s book authors, Cynthia Leitich Smith has seen firsthand how Indigenous representation in publishing has evolved. “Only a decade ago, the Native children’s and YA author community, especially those of us publishing at major trade presses, was incredibly small,” says Smith, a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of books including Rain Is Not My Indian Name and Sisters of the Neversea.
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Jan 20, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Patricia Buckley
Julie Flett has written and illustrated several picture books that reflect her Cree-Métis culture, including Birdsong, which won the 2020 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. She’s also illustrated numerous books by other Indigenous authors, including two Governor General’s Literary Award winners—When We Were Alone and On the Trapline, both written by David A.
