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HOT OFF THE PRESSES!! Happy Book Birthday! * Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Eric Velasquez * Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. * Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. When Schomburg’s collection became so big it began to overflow his house (and his wife threatened to mutiny), he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. * #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #Multiethnic #AfroLatinx #DiverseChildrensBooks #KidsLit #BooksForEveryone #BookReleaseTuesday#RepresentationMatters #ReadYourWorld #Bookstagram #Multiculturalism #ReadingWithoutWallsChallenge #ChildrensLiterature #KidsBookstagram #BooksForChildrenOfColor

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If There’s No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout. * In her final year of high school, Lena Wise learns that one split-second decision can alter the future. Four lives are lost after Lena reluctantly lets an inebriated friend drive home from a party. Racked with guilt and struggling to admit the truth of what happened, Lena pushes her friends away, including Sebastian, her best friend and longtime crush, who has just started to become something more. With a powerful message about the destructive effects of drunk driving and the far-reaching consequences of small decisions, Armentrout presents an effective story of raw grief and gradual acceptance. Lena’s guilt is almost tangible readers will easily understand her difficulty in moving forward, accepting help and comfort from those around her, and finding a way to forgive herself. * #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #YA #ReadingWithoutWallsChallenge #Multiethnic #DiverseChildrensBooks #Bookstagram #BooksForEveryone #KidsLit #Multiculturalism #ChildrensLiterature #RepresentationMatters #KidsBookstagram #BooksForchildrenOfColor

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The Wakame Gatherers By Holly Thompson and Illustrated by Kazumi Wilds * Nanami has two grandmothers: Baachan, who lives with her family in Japan, and Gram, who lives in Maine. When Gram visits Japan for the first time, Baachan takes her and Nanami on a trip to the seaside to gather Wakame, a long, curvy seaweed that floats near the shore. While the three assemble their equipment and ride the streetcar to the beach, Baachan explains how Wakame and other seaweeds are used in Japan. Gram shares stories about how seaweeds are used in Maine, and Nanami translates for them both. * By the end of the day, Nanami's two grandmothers discover that they have much in common despite being from countries that fought in the war they both remember vividly. Now, looking out across the beach at the surfers, dog walkers, and seaweed gatherers, they share an appreciation of this precious peace. * #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #RepresentationMatters #Japan #ReadingWithoutWallsChallenge #Multiethnic #DiverseChildrensBooks #BooksForEveryone #KidsBookstagram #PictureBooks #KidsLit #Multiculturalism #ChildrensLiterature #Bookstagram #BooksForChildrenOfColor

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Trials of a Teenage Werevulture (Trilogy of a Teenage Werevulture Book 1) by Emily Martha Sorensen * Lisette was expecting to be a werehawk. Now she's a werevulture. Sure, she can still fly, but the garbage looks delicious. And everyone's afraid of her! Okay, everyone's afraid of her best friend, too, but her best friend chose to be a banshee. Then the mysterious Rarity Clan invites her to join. They offer her friendship, and the ultimate secret: how to be turned a second time so that she could choose a different species instead. She could be a werehawk, or a vampire, specter, giant, lorelei, or whatever else she pleases. There's only one catch, and it's a big one. The tool that's used to do that is a weapon that could destroy the entire city. * #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #DiverseChildrensBooks #RepresentationMatters #Multiethnic #Fantasy #ReadingWithoutWallsChallenge #Multiculturalism #YA #SciFi #BooksForEveryone #KidsBookstagram #ChildrensLiterature #KidsLit #Bookstagram #BooksForChildrenOfColor

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Happy Mothers Day!! #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #MothersDay #DiverseChildrenBooks #BooksForChildrenOfColor

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Pursued By Gary Urey * Axel Jack and Daisha Tandala are two thirteen-year-old friends running from a billionaire madman who killed their scientist parents and now wants what the kids have—a GeoPort (Geographical Transportation System.) The GeoPort, invented by their parents, has the ability to transport a person to any place on Earth within seconds. Knowing the power they had created, their parents’ dying wish was for the kids to destroy the GeoPort before it lands in the wrong hands. But when the teens are separated by their pursuers, they must make a life or death attempt to find each other and get the GeoPort to a mysterious Indian Temple where the chase becomes more than just a high-tech game of hide-and-seek, but a war for control of everything—money, culture, politics, and power. #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #DiverseChildrensBook #MiddleGrade #RepresentationMatters #Mystery #KidsBookstagram #KidsLit #Multiethnic #Bookstagram #ChildrensLiterature #BooksForChildrenOfColor

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Patricia L'Ann Carwell "Pat" McKissack (August 9, 1944 – April 7, 2017) was an American children's writer. She was the author of three Dear America books: A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North, and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl. She has also written a novel for The Royal Diaries series: Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba. * Patricia lived in St. Louis. Her husband, Fredrick McKissack, with whom she co-won the Regina Medal in 1998, died in April 2013 at the age of 73; before marrying her and joining her in writing full-time, he had an accomplished career as a U.S. Marine, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and had owned a contracting business in the St. Louis area. * Patricia McKissack was also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries. * She was known also as L'Ann Carwell, Pat McKissack and Patricia C. McKissack. * #McBooksters #LiteracyAdvocate #RIPPatriciaMcKissack #LoveForPatriciaMcKissack #ChildrensLiterature #RepresentationMatters #DiverseChildrensBooks #KidsLit #KidsBookstagram #BooksForEveryone #Multiethnic #PublishInColor #ReadYourWorld #DiversityInPublishing #BooksForChildrenOfColor