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One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781635571394
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 17th, 2019

As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Finalist, Longlisted for the National Book Award, NPR Politics Podcast Book Club Choice
Best Books of the Year--Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, Bustle, NYPL


Echo By Pam Muñoz Ryan Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780439874021
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Scholastic Press - February 24th, 2015

Newbery Honor Book

New York Times Bestseller

Children’s Literature Legacy Award Winner

This impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller follows three children, in three different times and places, whose lives mysteriously intersect.

Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three myster


Dreamers By Yuyi Morales Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780823440559
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Neal Porter Books - September 4th, 2018

We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers.

Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.


Goin' Someplace Special By Patricia C. McKissack, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator) Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9781416927358
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Aladdin - December 30th, 2008

Through moving prose and beautiful watercolors, a Coretta Scott King Award and Caldecott Medal–winning author-illustrator duo collaborate to tell the poignant tale of a spirited young girl who comes face to face with segregation in her southern town.

There’s a place in this 1950s southern town where all are welcome, no matter what their skin color…and ’Tricia


The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America By Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor) Cover Image
By Nikesh Shukla (Editor), Chimene Suleyman (Editor)
$28.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780316524285
Published: Little, Brown and Company - February 19th, 2019

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post).


Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building By Christy Hale, Christy Hale (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Christy Hale, Christy Hale (Illustrator)
$20.95
ISBN: 9781600606519
Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock
Published: Lee & Low Books - October 1st, 2012

A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.

Cup
on cup
s tacking up,
smaller, smaller,
and growing taller

Children building-
Concrete poetry-

Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children's constructions taken to the level of architectural treasures.


What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance By Carolyn Forché Cover Image
$28.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780525560371
Published: Penguin Press - March 19th, 2019

2019 National Book Award Finalist

"Reading it will change you, perhaps forever.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time.” --Margaret Atwood


The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems By Paul B. Janeczko, Richard Jones (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Paul B. Janeczko, Richard Jones (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780763681685
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Candlewick - February 25th, 2019

Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille — Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire.

Today I walked outside and spied
a hedgehog on the hill.
When she and I met eye to eye,
she raised up straight and still.


Cinderella Liberator By Rebecca Solnit, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Rebecca Solnit, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781608465965
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Haymarket Books - May 7th, 2019


"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?"

--Chelsea Handler



Gun Love: A Novel By Jennifer Clement Cover Image
$17.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9781524761691
Published: Hogarth - March 12th, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “Fortified with wit and tenderness . . . Gun Love potently illuminates a puzzled land.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME • SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE


Catwings By Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Image
$5.99
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780439551892
Published: Orchard Books - May 1st, 2003

The bestselling Catwings series!

Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were born with wings, but she's grateful that they are able to use their flying skills to soar away from the dangerous city slums where they were born. However, once the kittens escape the big city, they learn that country life can be just as difficult!


The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family By Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly (Illustrator), S. K. Ali (With) Cover Image
By Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hatem Aly (Illustrator), S. K. Ali (With)
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316519007
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - September 10th, 2019

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!   A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab--by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad.

And don’t miss The Kindest Red, a story of hijab and friendship, available for preorder now!


The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) By Sarah M. Broom Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802125088
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Grove Press - August 13th, 2019

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction

A New York Times Bestseller

Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review

Named one of the "10 Best Books of 2019" by the New York Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Tribune, and Slate


Meet Yasmin! By Saadia Faruqi, Hatem Aly (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Saadia Faruqi, Hatem Aly (Illustrator)
$5.95
ISBN: 9781684360222
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Picture Window Books - August 1st, 2018

Meet Yasmin Yasmin is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems.


There There By Tommy Orange Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525436140
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2019

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.


Saturday By Oge Mora (By (artist)) Cover Image
By Oge Mora (By (artist))
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316431279
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 22nd, 2019

In this warm and tender story by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Thank You, Omu!, join a mother and daughter on an up-and-down journey that reminds them of what's best about Saturdays: precious time together.

Today would be special. Today would be splendid. It was Saturday! But sometimes, the best plans don't work out exactly the way you expect....


Amal Unbound By Aisha Saeed Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780399544682
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - May 8th, 2018

"Saeed's timely and stirring middle-grade debut is a celebration of resistance and justice."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

The compelling story of a girl's fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780679763888
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage - October 4th, 2011

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a


The Day You Begin By Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illustrator)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780399246531
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2018

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices!


The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science By Joyce Sidman Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780544717138
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Clarion Books - February 20th, 2018

In this beautiful nonfiction biography, a Robert F. Sibert Medal winner, the Newbery Honor–winning author Joyce Sidman introduces readers to one of the first female entomologists and a woman who flouted convention in the pursuit of knowledge and her passion for insects.


A Mother for Choco By Keiko Kasza Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9780698113640
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Puffin Books - March 19th, 1996

Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.


Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen By Jose Antonio Vargas Cover Image
$25.99
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780062851352
Published: Dey Street Books - September 18th, 2018

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American.”  Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow


Lu (Track #4) By Jason Reynolds Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781481450249
Availability: Available from Warehouse
Published: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books - October 23rd, 2018

Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds.

Lu was born to be cocaptain of the Defenders. Well, actually, he was born albino, but that’s got nothing to do with being a track star.