Every Time a Rainbow Dies

Every Time a Rainbow DiesFrom Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Dies is a moving, lyrical, and diverse love storyperfect for fans of One Crazy Summer who are ready for an older voice. Dreamy Thulani spends most of his time up on the roof, taking care of the flock of doves in the cote and watching the streets of Brooklyn bustle below him. He is up there on the day he sees a girl being brutally attacked in an alley.

they manage to earn unwanted attention from Robbie

inclusive work that’s also a terrific story

and my desire for her to feel comfortable

a spirited black girl who is abused and overworked as the indentured servant to a New England family

jazz dance

Imagination

Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left Black American folk heroes John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted

on his first trip to Africa

received local

But when one of those tourists ends up at the center of a string of strange murders

and fortunate enough to live in a beautiful village

and graffiti art