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8 Inclusive Stories For Kids
We all have wonderfully unique brains! Children’s books increasingly celebrate characters with a range of ability and neurodiversity. Seeing yourself reflected in a book is precious — and something that neurodiverse children deserve.
Darkly
Marisha Pessl. Delacorte, $19.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-5937-0655-8 Though 17-year-old Dia enjoys working at her family’s antiques shop, she worries that her life is going nowhere and yearns for more. Then she sees an ad from the Louisiana Veda Foundation, founded in honor of the 39-years-dead eccentric genius of the same name, creator of the complicated board games—now collector’s items—known as a Darkly.
Black Girl Power
Edited by Leah Johnson. Freedom Fire, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-368-09898-4 This empowering collection of 15 stories about girlhood, written by authors of the Black diaspora—including Sharon Flake, Kekla Magoon, and Ibi Zoboi—and edited by Johnson (Ellie Engle Saves Herself), who also contributes, contains messages of hope, resilience, power, and friendship.
Mishka
Anoush Elman and Edward van de Vendel, trans. from the Dutch by Nancy Forest-Flier, illus. by Annet Schaap. Levine Querido, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-64614-458-7 This tender novel, narrated in a simple, affecting voice by nine-year-old Roya, gently illuminates the disorienting effects of the refugee experience on a child. Smuggled out of Afghanistan with her parents and three older brothers when she was three, Roya and her family subsequently lived in a refugee center for five years.
My So-Called Family
Gia Gordon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-39205-5 Twelve-year-old Ash doesn’t need her foster family to love her. What she needs is a family that will respect and care for her. But her experiences as a foster child have taught her that adults are untrustworthy.
What the Woods Took
What the Woods Took Two strangers wrest 17-year-old Devin Green from her bed in Portland, Ore., while her foster parents stand aside.
Recalibrating our vision
Breaking news: To view all of our General Assembly news coverage in one spot, click here. For a long time, I felt like an imposter when it came to Easter. I assumed that, as a Christian, on this particular day I was to be joyful. Not happy – happy is for chocolate or the snooze button – but joyful, which is like happy but bigger and indefinably different.
Visitations
Corey Egbert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-30842-1; $17.99 paper ISBN 978-0-3743-0839-1 In this searing graphic novel memoir, Egbert (I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001) details his crisis of faith in Mormonism and in his mother following an allegation that his father has been sexually abusing his younger sister, Sarah.
¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles
Gr 2-5–It’s April 9, 1981. On the mound for the L.A. Dodgers is 20-year-old Fernando Valenzuela, the first rookie pitcher to start opening day for the club. A southpaw with a mean screwball, he not only shuts out the Astros but will go on to win his first eight starts. Short, squat, with long hair, the youngest of 12 children from a farming family in northern Mexico, he seemed an unlikely candidate for the “Fernandomania” that erupted.
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