Juvenile / Family

Some People Do

by Frank Lowe & Josh Hara – Bqb Publishing (June 01, 2019)

As a parent, discussing diversity with your child/children can be difficult, especially if you have your own questions.

"Some People Do" boils this topic down to provide the simplest of answers.

By the time...

While I Was Away

by Waka T. Brown & Chieko Hidaka – Quill Tree Books (January 26, 2021)

The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly's Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to...

Someone Like Me

by Julissa Arce – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (September 17, 2018)

A remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her journey to belong in America while growing up undocumented in Texas.

Born in the picturesque town of...

No Map, Great Trip: A Young Writer's Road to Page One

by Paul Fleischman & Andrew Eiden – Greenwillow Books (October 08, 2019)

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this memorable book that is part memoir, part travelogue,...

Unlikely Warrior

by Georg Rauch, Robert Fass & Phyllis Rauch – Blackstone Publishing (February 24, 2015)

An astounding memoir about a Jewish teenager forcedto become a German soldier

As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauchhelped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis behind false walls intheir top-floor...

Of Beetles and Angels

by Mawi Asgedom – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 15, 2008)

Read the remarkable true story of a young boy's journey from civil war in east Africa to a refugee camp in Sudan, to a childhood on welfare in an affluent American suburb, and eventually to a full-tuition scholarship...