Drawing Deena

Drawing DeenaFrom the award winning author of Aminas Voice and Aminas Song comes a nuanced and quietly powerful (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) middle grade novel about a young Pakistani American artist determined to manage her anxiety and forge her own creative path. Deenas never given a name to the familiar knot in her stomach that appears when her parents argue about money, when its time to go to school, or when she struggles to find the right words. She

one that we should all be using as a catalyst for our anti-racist education

Hardcover -  To nine-year-old Willie Powell

George loves his work

The Davenports is the tale of four determined and passionate young Black women discovering the courage to steer their own path in life—and love

How do I master myself

That she has remixed a canonical text to do so only further illuminates the need to critically question who holds the pen in telling our nation’s story

a heartwarming moment

In the tradition of books like Oh

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the significance of black writers and stories