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Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the powerful, New York Times bestselling account of growing up Black and female in America, completely rewritten with new stories for young readers. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means...
Author
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Maya Angelou pas̤ gran parte de su infancia en Stamps, Arkansas. Despǔs de un evento traum̀tico a los ocho ąos, dej̤ de hablar durante cinco ąos. Sin embargo, Maya redescubri̤ su voz a trav̌s de libros maravillosos y se convirti̤ en una de las escritoras y oradoras m̀s queridas del mundo. Este libro conmovedor presenta ilustraciones elegantes y extravagantes y datos adicionales en la parte posterior, incluida una cronolog̕a biogr̀fica...
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