Blue Birds

Blue BirdsAuthor of the critically acclaimed May B. returns with a stirring novel in verse. Alis and her parents make the long journey from England to settle the New World. But it doesn't go as planned and Alis, her parents, and the others of their small community soon find themselves at odds with the Roanoke tribe. As tensions rise between the settlers and the Native peoples, twelve year old Alis forms an impossible friendship with a Roanoke named Kimi.

and all illustrations of people

is a multifaceted tribute befitting this international musical legend

the anticipation

and his discovery of the poetry of human life

and jumping on a trampoline to reach the sun and push it higher

is involved in Black Lives Matter

including Langston Hughes

and as inventive as

or for adopting a new ritual at home

From her early childhood lessons to the height of her success as the first African American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera

In these confessional pages

Everyone needs help when they're learning something for the first time