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Would You Rather Challenge: October 18, 2025
Our family has been sick off and on for most of October but were trying to catch up on Charlie’s would you rather challenge and today were here with a post for October 18th, 2025. With Charlie creating the challenge it’s okay to be behind at times because we can catch up as long as we don’t give up.
Would You Rather Challenge: October 9, 2025
Charlie and I would like to welcome you to our Would You Rather Challenge: October 9, 2025. The challenge allows us to ask you a question from the children’s book The Ultimate Book of Would You Rather Questions: 1001 Family-Friendly Challenges for Kids, Teens and Adults written by the Author Kimberly McLeod (Author). Would you rather lose your sense of taste or your sense of smell?
Ida B. Wells Marches For The Vote By Dinah Johnson (Review)
#Sponsored Ida B. Wells Marches For The Vote by Dinah Johnson (Author), Jerry Jordan (Illustrator) a children’s book I received in exchange for a review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and you make a purchase I will make a small percentage off the items you purchase. About the book: In the book children learn about Ida B. Wells who grew up during the time women couldn’t vote. but Ida fought for equality no, matter the race or gender of the people involved.
Black History Month: 7 Stories of Triumph
From Black History to Black Futures! While February is Black History Month, we hope you enjoy these book selections every month of the year. —Baltimore County Public Librarians Board Books “My First Heroes: Black History” by editors of Silver Dolphin Books An engaging board book that will grow with your toddler. It highlights four prominent Black leaders with eye-catching graphics and interactive elements.
H Is for Harlem: Dinah Johnson's 2023 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
Greetings! I am so thrilled to accept this honor award from the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards Committee. It is an honor because there are so many beautiful books they could have recognized, so it’s thrilling that they’ve recognized this one. Harlem is a special place with special people and a special history, beginning with the Indigenous people who settled that land and lived on that land.
'When You Can Swim,' 'Warrior Girl Unearthed' and 'Sunshine' Win 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards
The 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winners were announced on Tuesday, June 20. The annual award is given in three categories: picture book; fiction and poetry; and nonfiction. This year's winners and honor titles are: PICTURE BOOK WINNER: When You Can Swim by Jack Wong HONOR BOOKS: Remember by Joy Harjo, illus. by Michaela Goade Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritualby Carole Boston Weatherford, illus.
This Is Our Place
Vitor Martins, trans. from the Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena. Push, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-338-81864-2 Employing Number 8 Sunflower Street as this novel’s omniscient narrator (“I am a house. Not in the metaphorical sense... I am literally a house”), Martins (Here the Whole Time) cleverly blends three of its occupants’ experiences growing up across three decades in Lagoa Pequena, a small Brazilian town.
The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
Jason Chin. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5070-1 In this companion to Your Place in the Universe, Chin zooms way, way in, examining progressively smaller materials until reaching the smallest known to humans. An opening page pictures a child with light brown skin who uses a wheelchair, shown near a school group in a desert park.
Scattered Showers
Rainbow Rowell, illus. by Jim Tierney. Wednesday, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-85541-1 Fangirl’s Reagan, Simon and Baz from the Simon Snow trilogy, and protagonists from Attachments feature alongside new Rowell characters in this frothy, genre-spanning short story amalgam. Tierney’s silhouette illustrations, rendered in energetic teals and magentas, precede the tales, introducing each story’s individual theme and central couple.
Izzy Paints by Tim Miller
Tim Miller. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-0631-1975-8 After making an inaugural trip to an art museum with their yellow cat sidekick in tow, big-city denizen Izzy, a gray koala, is so inspired by the dazzling expressions on display—Miller (Tiny Kitty, Big City) tips a hat to Frida Kahlo, Henry Moore, and Wayne Thiebaud, among others—that they decide to become an artist, too. Fortunately, Izzy has both a closet crammed with art supplies and a snappy-looking artist’s smock.
The Vermilion Emporium
Jamie Pacton. Peachtree Teen, $18.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-68263-488-2 Pacton (Lucky Girl) deftly recalls the Radium Girls in this unique examination of class inequality and exploitation set against a provocative landscape. Light-brown-skinned Twain, 17, is desperate to leave Severon, where he’s plagued by his dead brother’s financial debts. He’s sure that the thread of starlight he found on the cliffs by the coast is his ticket out.
The Lies We Tell
Katie Zhao. Bloomsbury, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0399-2 Midwestern teenagers and academic rivals join forces to solve a cold case while navigating the aftermath of a hate crime in this intense thriller by Zhao (How We Fall Apart). After returning to Michigan from a summer with extended family in Beijing, Anna Xu starts her freshman year at Brookings University.
My Paati’s Saris
Jyoti Rajan Gopal, illus. by Art Twink. Kokila, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-32460-8 “My paati’s saris are stories./ They whisper the name/ of where they were made and/ how they came to be.” In the creators’ glad celebration of family, love, and gender-experimental play, a Tamil-speaking Hindu child finds joy and solace in their paati’s sari collection.
A Consuming Fire
Laura E. Weymouth. McElderry, $19.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-6659-0270-0 A grief-stricken teen seeks vengeance against a god for her sibling’s unjust death in this fury-laced tale of sacrifice and defiance by Weymouth (A Rush of Wings), set in an alternate historical Britain. Every 18 years, the landlocked forest town of Weatherell must select one teen girl to offer some aspect of themselves, such as their hands or their memory, to appease the mountain god who watches over the island of Albion.
Recommended reading from Deschutes Public Library
Children’s books “H is For Harlem,” by Dinah Johnson, illustrated by April Harrison This beautifully authentic nonfiction title pays homage to the vibrant New York City neighborhood and honors Harlem’s historic and present-day significance to African Americans.
H IS FOR HARLEM | Kirkus Reviews
by Dinah Johnson ; illustrated by April Harrison ‧ An alphabetic journey through Harlem, past and present. Beginning with “A is for Apollo Theater” and ending with “Z is for Zora Neale Hurston,” this historically rich picture book highlights the significant people, places, works of art, memorable publications, and more that have long made Harlem a hub of Black culture.
Some Mistakes Were Made
Kristin Dwyer. HarperTeen, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-308853-5 Using an intimate first-person narrative and alternating between the past and present, Dwyer celebrates found family in this emotionally layered and strikingly romantic debut. With her father in and out of jail and her mother often disappearing without notice, Ellis Truman spent most of her Indiana childhood with classmate Easton Albrey and his family.
Titles Examining Black History and Titles Celebrating Black Voices
by Randi Pink: A historical YA novel that follows two Black teens in the days leading up, during, and after the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most violent racist acts of our history recently brought into the spotlight. 2021 marks the 100 year anniversary. THE AWAKENING OF MALCOLM X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson: A powerful narrative account of the activist’s adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with YA powerhouse Tiffany D. Jackson.
Dinah Crader Johnson, Gorham: Mom’s memories in a nutshell
I carefully open the little jewelry box that belonged to my mother. It does not contain things of monetary value, but rather, keepsakes of past lives. There is a whole pecan in its shell, first saved by my grandmother, then by my mother, and now passed on to me. It has a message inked in small block letters on the outside that reads: “In Memory of By-Gone Days” and below that “Nov.
Judge "shocked" USPS disregarded order for postal inspectors to search for undelivered ballots Original
A federal judge upbraided lawyers for the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday after the agency failed to meet his Election Day order for postal inspectors to sweep mail processing facilities in more than a dozen states for missing election ballots.
Harvest Hope Food Bank
FAST SC Campaign Raising money for Harvest Hope Food Bank in response to COVID-19 Miles Bagwell $214 raised Harvest Hope's Coronavirus Response Fund Campaign Last week, Governor McMaster declared a state of emergency in South Carolina due to the Coronavirus. Schools have been cancelled for the ...
Children's Books Similar to the Oscar-Winning "Hair Love"
Oscar-winning short film, Hair Love is a touching story that follows a little girl and her dad as they battle it out with her beautiful but thick and tangled tresses for a very special day. The themes of the film range from loving your hair to the power of persistence and, ultimately, family love. In their acceptance speech the creators of Hair Love, Matthew A.
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