![]() ![]() ![]() Mary’s College and author of the children’s book “ Black Joy: A Healthy Conversation About Race.” Hendricks III, an educator based in Boston and founder of He Is Me, a non-profit geared toward empowering Black men in and toward teaching, told HuffPost that utilizing books as teaching tools for parents can be a great option, especially in moments in which you don’t have sufficient language.Ĭhildhood might actually be the best time to begin the work of holistically looking at the Black experience, especially in a world largely observed through a white-only lens, said Bedford Palmer II, a licensed psychologist, associate professor at St. And, if you’re a white parent, days like Juneteenth might prompt complex conversations that you might not know how to have, but are critical to have nonetheless. ![]() Can’t get enough great reads? Join our official monthly book club, HuffPost Readable, to get great book suggestions and participate in important discussions with fellow book lovers.įor adults, attempting to process America’s grotesque and ongoing relationship with enslavement can be overwhelming - never mind if you’re a child. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The first time that we see Sebastian in a dress made by Francis, he is glowing and you can tell that he is in his element. The content of the novel had the perfect mixture of happy and heartbreaking scenes. ![]() I loved how on the pages that separated each chapter, the art was different sections of a dress design. The art style was fun and really felt like it fit the story well. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found that there wasn’t much that I would change or want to be different as I read it. Francis spends her time making extravagant dresses for the Prince, but overtime, begins to feel stunted by the need to keep the Prince’s alter ego a secret. Set in Paris during the dawn of the modern age, the book follows a young prince named Sebastian and his personal seamstress named Francis as they take the Paris fashion world by storm.ĭuring the day, Sebastian is the Crown Prince of Belgium who is searching for a wife, but, at night, he is Lady Crystallia. ![]() “The Prince and the Dressmaker” by Jen Wang is a wonderful graphic novel that explores themes of gender and familial expectations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, it is also shown as a place of strong community, loving families, with bright colors, great food and warm welcomes.Īcevedo so clearly could have allowed the revelation of their shared father to be the defining moment of both of the girls’ lives. The differences between their lives are stark with the poverty of the Dominican Republic clearly depicted as well as the dangers for teen girls. The book begins with their father still alive and quickly moves to the crash and the shock of loss. Written in verse, this novel moves between the perspectives of Camino and Yahaira. Now he is gone and it isn’t until they are preparing for his funeral that Yahaira and Camino discover that they are half-sisters born within months of one another. But once she found out that he had another family in the Dominican Republic, she never forgave him. She had been his champion chess player, competing and winning for him. ![]() Yahaira had adored her father until she discovered his secret. In New York City, Yahaira’s father was also killed in the crash. Her father, who died in the plane crash, lived most of the time in New York City, spending every summer with Camino. She dreams of becoming a doctor and going to college in America. Camino lives in the Dominican Republic with her auntie who is a local healer. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (9780062882769)Īfter a plane crashes on its way to the Dominican Republic, two families are impacted with grief and loss. ![]() ![]() "Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, (Hazel Levesque, Percy Jackson, Jason Grace, Annabeth Chase, Frank Zhang, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean) The story is continued in the sequel series The Trials of Apollo. The final entry in the series, The Blood of Olympus, was published on October 7, 2014. The first book of the series, The Lost Hero, was published on October 12, 2010. ![]() Riordan introduces Roman mythology in the series alongside several new characters, primarily from the Roman Camp Jupiter. The series can be read as a standalone volume, but is meant to be read after Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the fourth book of the series, there is also a fight against Tartarus, which, in Greek mythology, was the darkest and deepest point of the Underworld. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaia (Roman name Terra). ![]() The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy- adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book Fantasy, young adult fiction, mystery, adventure, Greek and Roman mythological fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over sixty years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have. Two men-ambitious, powerful, ruthless-are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant-born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world-are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. The mega-bestselling novel that made Jeffrey Archer a star, Kane and Abel, "a sprawling blockbuster!"- Publishers Weekly TWO STRANGERS BORN WORLDS APART. About the Book From international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer comes a novel about two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fueled by their all-consuming hatred. ![]() ![]() I returned to writing in 2004, and published my first novel with a small press in 2008. Serious writing started in my twenties, but after more than a decade trying to publish (and getting nowhere), I quit altogether. I first opened the door to my imagination with typewriter keys while playing hide and seek and finding a black behemoth when I just ten years old. I'm a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling author with 9 Goodreads Choice Award Nominations. Thanks for visiting my page! Here are other sites where you can contact me. ![]() In other news, Farilane, hit #1 on Amazon's Bestselling Epic Fantasy list! The ebook and audiobook are already released, and the hardcover will release on May 16th. Will pass it by Gamma readers for one last quality check then it's off to the printers! ![]() Just finished the recording of the audiobook, and the layout. ![]() Esrahaddon, the last book in the Rise and Fall trilogy, is almost done. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every cover has a hot, bare-chested man and/or an adorable animal – how many women could resist that? But this series offers readers plenty of content between the covers, never fear.Īfter ex-military men forming a security company, the next best series trope in romance is a sibling group. ![]() “Come for the cover, stay for the writing” could be tagline of this group of terrific romance novels. One of the best series in her ouvre is, without question, the Animal Magnetism series. After r eading her Lucky Harbor series this summer, I went on a MAJOR Jill Shalvis binge ( Don’t believe me? Take a look at my Goodreads account), digging up her other series and Harlequin single titles to devour. She writes strong, damaged heroes, sexy heroines often as funny as they are beautiful, and always gives us a strong sense of place, usually a terrific small town where everyone is in each other’s business. Jill Shalvis has incredible writing strengths which make her one of my favorite contemporary romance authors. Animal Magnetism ( Animal Magnetism #1 – Lilah and Brady’s story) by Jill Shalvis (Berkley, February 1, 2011) ![]() ![]() ![]() It raises the question of what comes next, and re-values Macintyre’s contribution, serving both as a snapshot of the state of the historian’s art, and an introduction to those who come more recently to this highly contested field. ![]() The Work of History connects us to that past. ![]() The practice of history writing and telling has long been central to the narrative of the nation in Australia. The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark Melbourne University Publishing, 29. He is also an activist, historian, and essayist. They also tell us about collegiality and friendship. He was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award in 2017. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre’s contribution to understanding radicalism and communism, postwar reconstruction, education and civics, universities, liberalism, historiography and the history wars. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. ![]() Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. New book edited by Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre (MUP, 2022) ![]() ![]() ![]() That of course goes for Wendy, John, and Michael all swept out of their London circa 1911 bedrooms and into an adventure they will never forget, but one filled with genuine peril as Hook and his cronies deem all children must die. The basic bones of the story though are intact, and no one will accuse this of jumping the shark, it is just more of an emphasis on the idea of connection with each other and forging our own individual paths. ![]() It is an interesting touch and Law plays it with evil dread and even some poignancy before it all ends. All of this gives an explanation to who Hook once was, but that makes this defiantly not your father’s ‘Peter Pan’. It is tough when friends grow apart but that is what happened as James morphed into Captain Hook (Peter had cut of his hand and fed it to an alligator if you recall – and that gator is back here in all its CGI glory). Now it seems Lowery has put more of a Wicked –style rivalry and friendship between Peter and his old schoolmate and bestie James, their bond broken up when James chose a different path than the freewheeling Neverland choice of his friend, who along with those Lost Boys he accumulated, just never wanted to grow up. That said, the real highlight here is watching Jude Law dig into a Captain Hook, or James as we learn he was known in his younger years, and really make him a memorable and unrelenting villain, but one with a new backstory I can’t recall even being hinted at before. ![]() ![]() Pinkney was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Connecticut. The first official story she remembers writing was in second grade - it was about her family. Her mother is a teacher and her father is a great storyteller, so growing up surrounded by books and stories is what inspired Andrea Davis Pinkney to choose a career as an author. In 2010, Andrea's book entitled Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down, was published on the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins of 1960. Pinkney's newest books include Meet the Obamas and Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, which has garnered three starred reviews and has been named one of the "Best Books of 2009" by School Library Journal. ![]() Woodson Award and Alvin Ailey, a Parenting Publication Gold medal winner. Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children, including the Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Duke Ellington, illustrated by Brian Pinkney Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and winner of the Carter G. ![]() |