Librarian’s Pick: The Ghosts Are Family – Maisy Card
"As the title of Maisy Card’s radiant debut suggests, this is a story of a family shaped and haunted by the past. The Paisley family’s origin story, revealed as the narrative circles down and swims up through eight generations of family life, begins with the...
Owl’s Nest Review: Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson
When assigned a school project to “fill” a suitcase with memories, twelve-year-old Amara knows exactly what she wants to fill it with. Memories of her family, her family in Oregon and especially the family she has never met in New York. What Amara learns is that...
Librarian’s Pick: Children Of the Land – Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
"Children of the Land, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s powerful, poetically infused memoir, adds a soul-searing voice to the canon of contemporary immigration narratives. It’s an old tale for Castillo, the journeys over the border repeating down through his family’s...
Librarians Pick: 999 – Heather Dune Macadam
"On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents’ homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were...
Librarian’s Pick: KD – Marcus Thompson II
"The NBA has never seen a player quite like Kevin Durant. Larry Bird wasn’t as quick, Magic Johnson didn’t have such a range, and Michael Jordan wasn’t seven feet tall. Durant handles the ball like Allen Iverson, shoots like Dirk Nowitzki, and has the scoring...
Librarian’s Pick: The Sixth Man – Andre Iguodala
"Andre Iguodala is one of the most admired players in the NBA. And fresh off the Warriors’ fifth Finals appearance in five years, his game has never been stronger. Off the court, Iguodala has earned respect, too—for his successful tech investments, his philanthropy,...
Librarian’s Pick: Canyon Dreams – Michael Powell
"Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and...
Librarian’s Pick: We Are Not Here To Be Bystanders – Linda Sarsour
"On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection, dressed in a hijab for the first time. She saw in the mirror the woman she was growing to be—a young Muslim American woman unapologetic in her faith and her activism,...
5 Owls- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanSO MUCH HAPPENS IN THIS BOOK Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third book in the Harry Potter series. In it, JK Rowling, ramps up the action and the world building by revealing a ton of new characters, ideas and...
Librarian’s Pick: The Watergate Girl – Jill Wine-Banks
"It was a time, much like today, when Americans feared for the future of their democracy, and women stood up for equal treatment. At the crossroads of the Watergate scandal and the women’s movement was a young lawyer named Jill Wine Volner (as she was then known),...