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Diverse Voices August 2024 |
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It Bears Repeating by Tagaq; illustrated by Cee PootoogookCelebrating the polar bear, one of the world's most extraordinary animals, this read-aloud counting book, featuring simple text that incorporates Inuktitut words, brings to life the antics of polar bears as they sniff, slide, swim, hunt, play and dance. (Ages 0-5)
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Two boys who are friends dream of sailing across the sea. They become boat makers but have different ways of thinking and creating. Their differences grow bigger, but neither one is successful with their creations. When they reunite years later, will they form the perfect team? (Ages 5-9) |
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Sumo Libre
by Joe Cepeda
Friends Max and Kenji love wrestling, but Max loves lucha libre and Kenji loves sumo, so they come together to create something spectacular (Ages 5-9)
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Thunder and the Noise Storms by Jeffrey Paul Ansloos and Shezza Ansloos; illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-SteckleyKids laughing, sneakers squeaking, balls bouncing--for Thunder, the sounds of the school day often brew into overwhelming noise storms. But when Thunder's Mosom asks him what he hears on an urban nature walk, Thunder starts to understand how sounds like bird wings flapping and rushing water can help him feel calm and connected. (Ages 5-9)
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Tricky Chopsticks by Sylvia Chen; illustrated by Fanny LiemDetermined to master chopsticks in time for her cousin's birthday party— and her family's annual chopsticks challenge — Jenny Chow creates a solution through STEAM trial and error. Includes instructions on how to make DIY chopstick tongs. (Ages 5-9)
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What Love Looks Like by Laura Obuobi; illustrated by Anna CunhaBefore she can go to sleep, Afia ponders what love looks like and, with the help of her loving father, embarks on a quest to find the emotion at the heart of the world's wonder, which is closer than she thinks. Illustrations (Ages 2-5).
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The Barren Grounds:
Book One of the Misewa Saga
by David Robertson
When two indigenous foster children find a secret portal to another reality, they encounter Ochek, the only hunter supporting his starving community of Misewa, and the three try to save Misewa before the icy winter freezes everything. (Ages 9-12)
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Gamerville by Johnnie ChristmasSent to Camp Reset, a summer camp where electronics are forbidden and he's forced to socialize, eat healthy and go outdoors, gamer Max, a qualifier for the Gamerville championship, must level up his escape plan to realize his dreams of digital domination. (Ages 9-12)
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The Makers Club : a Graphic Novel by Reimena Yee and Tintin Pantoja; lettered by Melanie UjimoriThis two-in-one graphic novel introduces Nadia and Priya, who combine their skills to make a video game and learn the true meaning of teamwork, and fashion designer Aqilah and engineer Yong Qiang, who discover trying to do everything and please everyone catches up to you eventually. (Ages 12-14)
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Mid-Air by Alicia Williams; illustrated by Danica NovgorodoffAfter their friend is killed in a hit-and-run, Isaiah and Drew find their friendship fading and Isaiah, desperate to keep them together, comes up with a plan. When it backfires and something unspeakable happens, he wonders how much he can keep inside before he explodes. (Ages 12-14)
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Crazy Horse and Custer : Born Enemies
by S. D. Nelson
In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse and George Armstrong Custer, whose opposing destinies culminated in the infamous Battle of the Greasy Grass, as the Lakota called it, or the Battle of the Little Bighorn, as it was called by the Euro-Americans Nelson's side-by-side storytelling offers very different perspectives on the same historical events, with gripping narrative and signature illustration style based on Plains Indians ledger art, along with a mix of period photographs and paintings, (Ages 9-14)
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A plate of hope : the inspiring story of Chef José Andrés and World Central Kitchen
Un Plato de Esperanza: La Inspirardora Historia del Chef José Andrés y World Central Kitchen by Erin Frankel; illustrated by Paola EscobarA biography about chef José Andrés, who, through his World Central Kitchen organization, is fulfilling a vision to feed people in need all over the world, serving more than 200 million meals and counting. Available in Spanish and English. (Ages 6-14)
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Wings of an Eagle : the Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman; illustrated by S.D. NelsonPublished to coincide with the 2024 Summer Olympics, this dramatic and inspiring autobiographical tale chronicles the life of Native American gold medalist Billy Mills who adapted and overcame, despite poverty, racism, severe health challenges and sometimes feeling as though his wings were clipped.. (Ages 6-12)
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Free Radicals
by Lila Riesen
Afghan American Mafi's sophomore year gets complicated as family secrets are exposed, putting her family back in Afghanistan in danger.
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Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks; color by Sara SternWorking at a pumpkin patch every autumn, two seasonal best friends organize ultimate Halloween plans to celebrate their last working year together. By the award-winning author of Fangirl and the Eisner Award-winning illustrator of the Nameless City trilogy.
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Study Break : 11 College Tales from Orientation to Graduation edited by Aashna AvachatTold over the course of one academic year, this collection of interconnected stories, set on the same fictional campus, explores different parts of“the college experience” and features students from different cultures, genders and interests who learn more about who they are and who they want to be.
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This Place : 150 Years Retold
by Katherena Vermette and various authors and illustrators
A graphic novel anthology depicts the last one hundred fifty years of Canadian history as seen through the eyes of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the Europeans arrived.
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This Indian Kid : a Native American Memoir by Eddie D. ChuculateAward-winning author Eddie Chuculate brings his childhood to life with spare, unflinching prose in a book that is at once a love letter to his Native American roots and an inspiring and essential message for young readers everywhere who are coming of age in an era when conversations about acceptance and empathy, love and perspective are more necessary than ever.
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The year is 2112, and it's the apocalypse exactly as expected: rivers receding, oceans rising, civilization crumbling. Convinced that the only way to save the world is to rewrite its past, a group of Indigenous outcasts who have discovered a time travel portal in a cave in the desert send one of their own--a reluctant linguist named Tad--on a bloody, one-way mission to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus before he reaches the so-called New World. As the horror of the task ahead unfolds and Tad's commitment is tested, his actions could trigger a devastating new fate for his friends and the future. |
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In the Upper Country by Kai ThomasSummoned to a neighboring farm to gather testimony after an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad kills a slave hunter, Lensinda Martin accepts the woman's proposed barter of a story for a story instead of a confession.
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The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine PlattInspired by her personal journey, the author presents a radical revisioning of minimalism that celebrates the importance of history and heritage, and gives you permission to make space for what really matters..
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Advertising Revolutionary : the Life and Work of Tom Burrell by Jason ChambersOver a forty-year career, Chicagoan Tom Burrell changed the face of advertising and revolutionized the industry's approach to African Americans as human beings and consumers. This a biography of the groundbreaking creator and entrepreneur that explores Burrell's role in building brands like McDonald's and Coca-Cola within a deeply felt vision of folding positive images of Black people into mainstream American life. It combines archival research and interviews with Burrell and his colleagues to provide a long overdue portrait of an advertising industry legend and his times.
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Whiskey Tender : A Memoir by Deborah Jackson TaffaReflecting on her past and present, the author, a citizen of the Quechan (Yuma) Nation and Laguna Pueblo, reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the "melting pot" of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System
9601 Capital Lane
Largo, Maryland 20774
301-699-3500www.pgcmls.info/ |
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