The 5 O'Clock Band

The 5 O'Clock BandTake a tour of New Orleans with Grammy nominated musician Troy Andrews and renowned illustrator Bryan Collier in this companion picture book to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Trombone Shorty. After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, a boy called Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader. He hits the streets of New Orleans to find some answers and to soak up some inspiration.

Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries

It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University

But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens

in a world where everyone is choosing sides

After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony

Can Ruby ever reconnect with her favorite teacher

a parent's love

But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village

and (of course) sunblock

Back matter includes suggestions for further reading

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