Lesa’s debut Young Adult novel, For Lamb, is based in Jim Crow Mississippi. Leaving Lymon and Being Clem, both named Kirkus Best Books, completed the Finding Langston series. Her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, was the 2019 winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and received the Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. Her verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet received five starred reviews, was nominated for an NAACP image award, and received a Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustration. Lesa Cline-Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books that celebrate in story, Satchel Paige, an ALA Notable Book and a Bank Street College “Best Children’s Book of the Year, Major Taylor: Champion Cyclist, Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson, My Story, My Dance, Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong, Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes, Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams and The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel Payne and Not Playing by The Rules: 21 Female Athletes Who Changed Sports.
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Join now so you don’t miss it! 2) My first middle-grade novel, Minecraft: The Haven Trials, releases December 7 They will be starting fantasy reading club soon, and their first pick is going to be Son of the Storm! There will be a read-along, lots of discussion, and I’ll pop in every now and then to offer more insight into the story. Lastly: Ever heard of the reading clubs at ? They’re a new app where anyone can set up moderated book clubs ( Levar Burton has one going right now). The book itself won’t reach you until summer of 2022 (which I know is not great news for some of y’all, but is wonderful news for me because I’m, well, not a machine). This is just to tell you that Warrior of the Wind is in the works, but the cover reveal is likelier to happen sooner than the book itself. No, no, Book 2 of The Nameless Republic is not already available. 1) Warrior of the Wind cover reveal + Nameless news Here are some updates, some new happenings/projects, and what to look out for before December 31. I started this year with a letter about what to expect from me in 2021. “So I look at the postboxes and I think, ‘Wasn’t life simple,’” she says. Previous interviewers have sometimes described her as cold, but I get the impression instead that she is reserved, maybe a little shy, which I respect in a multi-award-winning movie star. The placing of the sofas is such that she is able to avoid looking directly at me, and I think this is how she likes it. We’re sitting at right angles to each other, Saunders, at 64, elegant in cashmere and clompy boots, stroking a dignified whippet called Olive. And the third is about her current hobby, riding an electric bike through the country lanes near her home, in search of interesting postboxes. The second is about the time Goldie Hawn flew her to New York to read a script Saunders was meant to have written, when Saunders had fully intended (but failed) to write the whole thing on the plane. The first is about the night Roseanne Barr took Saunders and Joanna Lumley to meet an ageing Richard Pryor in a Los Angeles comedy club. Within the space of just 10 minutes, Jennifer Saunders has shared three anecdotes, and rather than the stuff of the anecdotes themselves, it’s their balance – of glamour, glee and Britishness – that paints a distinct portrait of someone quite happy to dip into stardom and showbiz just so long as they’re home in time for tea. Thank you, sir, for illustrating that a character does not have to be isolated to thrive in YA. Wells gives her an interesting web of friends who all participate in her adventure, and a loving family who are equally proud of and frustrated with her. I particularly love that Mari doesn't get so caught up in a love interest that she loses sight of her other significant relationships. her friends represent a diverse population as well, which is not only refreshing, but an accurate representation of teen social groups. I'm excited to see a Latina main character in a YA sci fi she's not only racially diverse, but she's a girl, which is rather unusual for the genre. Mari is a fantastic average girl main character who outwits her opponent to save her city while she is saving herself. In this society, there is a new drug problem: viral programming that affects the senses via the tech that is directly wired into people's brains. The book is set in a futuristic Los Angeles, where it seems that technology has only gotten progressively pervasive, and the divide between the haves and the have nots has widened. This book has a gorgeous cover, and fantastic blurb by James Dashner, and an exciting dystopian concept. Source: galley kindly provided by publisherīluescreen is the first in a new series by Dan Wells, who has seen success with his Partials series, John Cleaver series, and a few stand alones. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism. Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. magisterial new book.” -Walter Isaacson, Time |