The Last Children of Mill Creek

The Last Children of Mill CreekVivian Gibsons bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed by critics as a spare, elegant jewel of a work and a love letter to Gibson's childhood. Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as progress. A moving memoir of family life at a time very

As Avery follows the crayons' advice

and mom Toni Collier

through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic

when the bird gives them a seed

the daughter of the police officer

that are irresistibly adorable

Calida Rawles

until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her

Spurred by the police killings and street protests of 2020

two autobiographies

funny book perfect for reading aloud

while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations