The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic El-Rayess with Sullivan

Add this one to your high school library.  The dangers of being a Muslim girl/family in Bosnia.  Based on true accounts, a teen girl who loves going to school faces all sorts of dangers.  This is an important read.  

 

Little Britches The Fields of Home by Ralph Moody

 I love this series.  I finished the series and wanted more.  Ralph Moody can be found on Wikipedia.

Go back to a simpler time and as Ralph navigates the world as an older teen, you would think he is much older.  A great read.

All We Have Left by Wendy Mills

Get this book in your library now.  It is an excellent read.  Grief, understanding, anger and pain coupled with family dysfunction and things not said makes this a woven story of two time frames of a tragic time and years later.  A sister who was very little when her brother died.  A scarf, a knife and story uncovered when the truth is sought.  A powerful read.  You are taken in to the towers in a time when destruction and urgency lead to survival.

Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi

This is a book we need now.  To help us as a whole understand how black people have been treated

over the years and why.  How different perspectives played out.  From presidents to everyday people 

responded to racism with actions that go beyond abuse.  This book was written a few months before what is going on right now in the United States.  It is timed perfectly to help us all understand the roots of  anger, hurt and frustration that are being expressed in today's world.  It is an important read.

I'm getting for my high school library!

Astronauts by Ottaviani and Wicks

I'm getting this one for my high school. Well done and even has it's works cited pages at back.  It's a good read for a graphic novel blending history, women's rights and people of color as well.  Go travel with these special and amazing people as they journey through space.  It's a good read.

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

This is a must read of a brave young woman who tells of her childhood of being a refugee, fleeing for her life as a genocide takes place.  How survival and a very smart older sister takes care of her. How she makes her way to the United States.  This is a book that should be read by many people, especially people who are in power to help others in need.

Lillian’s Right To Vote by Winter & Evans

There has been time when the US has been unfair to groups of people when it comes to voting.  People were treated unfairly and wrongly.  We must remember these times so that we don't repeat them.  This is an important book to have in our libraries.  It is also up for vote with CYRM 2019 2020 school year.  Add this to your library collection.

And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

I listened to the audio book and it was a rich layered story that traveled through time and countries.  How these people's lives entwined make this an impressive collection of stories threaded together.