I literally just finished reading Brian F. Walker’s Black Boy White School and I cannot wait to share it with someone, anyone. Anthony “Ant” Jones is given a scholarship to an elite prep school in Boston. Leaving his East Cleveland neighborhood he struggles with the realization that he may never fit in with either world. Ant’s struggles with…
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The new readers at the library may start at different levels but eventually there is a point in which they are looking for something new to read. I often recommend my favorites but there seems to be such a lack of books gearing towards boys, especially African American Boys. Enter The Hop Hop Kids. These books feature a male…
Create a literacy center which will develop a love of books by playing out the parts, recalling text, and every part of a story.
In Rebecca Dudley’s wordless book, Hank Finds an Egg, a little bear called Hank finds an egg and does everything he can to get the egg back to the nest it belongs in. The book has multiple photographs which shows Hank’s determination to protect the egg he has found, all told without words! A book without words usually intimidates…
In Kevin Sherry‘s I’m The Biggest Thing in the Ocean, a giant squid brags about being the biggest thing in the ocean, a claim he clings to even when danger strikes! This is such a fun book to share! Our Giant Squid Hero is so confident in his claim of being bigger that he turns a negative twist (he gets…