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'Every cell of their bodies says Make Art': The 2023 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
By \"dwell[ing] in Possibility\" (Dickinson), the poetry contained within each of this year's award winner and honor books resonated with the judges in making its subject matter new. Like Savage, Nelson uses her art to capture vivid instants, single breaths of human life that may change our view of broader swaths of time. True to her subtitle, The Shape of a Sculptor's Life, Nelson constantly probes the implicit analogy between Savage's art and Nelson's own poetry as a way of examining the meaning of art and the significance of an artist's life. (43) The linking of \"creation,\" \"potential,\" and \"freedom\" for the Black artist and the woman artist in the poem is significant in developing and recovering the portrait of Augusta Savage the artist.
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Jason Reynolds
Author Jason Reynolds has transformed young adult literature with his unique writing style, merging poetry with colloquial language to reflect the lives of Black and Brown youth in the US and beyond.
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RACISM AND ANTIRACISM IN NONFICTION FOR THE MIDDLE GRADES
The Common Core State Standards' focus on nonfiction texts has prompted middle schools to include more historical nonfiction, including books that focus on the United States' racialized past (and present) such as We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson (2018) and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You (2020) by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. But books for youth about racism have been shrouded in controversy, anti-critical race theory legislation, and calls for censorship, suggesting that we need a better understanding of the books' content. Thus, the purpose of this study was to use content analysis to examine messages about racism and antiracism in We Are Not Yet Equal and Stamped. Findings indicated the texts suggest racism takes numerous forms, and it is foundational and persistent throughout the United States' past and present, manifesting as scientific racism, institutional racism, racist violence, representational racism, and racist language.
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All American Boys
Rashad Butler was beaten by a police officer. His classmate, Quinn Collins, watched it from the shadows. Now, Rashad is in the hospital, trying to make sense of how a minor stumble in a convenience store led to a brutal beating. Quinn has to figure out how the officer, a family friend and father figure, could viciously attack someone already cuffed. In this fictionalized snapshot of a very real story continuously replayed across the United States, Rashad is Black, and the police officer is White.
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Teaching Miles Morales Suspended in a Time of Book Bans
Miles Morales Suspended by Jason Reynolds, an author whose work is frequently banned, can be positioned in English classrooms to teach about contemporary attacks on Black literature through book bans.
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2019 Series Spotlight
Gr. 4-6 (BCCB 9/19) Hatke starts this richly drawn graphic novel series with a small cache of beans, which young Jack plants, growing a garden that leads to a world of fantastical creatures, many of them bent on humanity's destruction. Nods to various fairy tales are sure to please readers of folktales and the original Jack tales, but it's the Easter eggs of Hatke's previous works that will really get fans excited, and they'll thrill to see their beloved intergalactic heroine Zita the Spacegirl make her return. Fans of Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series (BCCB 9/11, 12/12, 6/12) will find enough Easter eggs to know that this is the same richly imagined multi-verse occupied by Karou and Akiva, evoking hope for more adventures there even as this duology concludes.
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Counterstorytelling This Historical Moment
The radical and collective act of raising or (re)shaping and (re)building a nation scarred by anti-Black violence, racial injustice, a health pandemic, and political upheaval requires English language arts teachers to know, center, and sustain the diverse literary histories and polyvocal stories of the varied lifeways of our students. Ours and their lived experiences converge and diverge around triumph and tribulation, jubilee and judgment, as well as dignity and dispossession. Our counterstories and perspectives map the contours and complexities of our nation's historical development and contemporary conditions. Here, Green considers the historical moments we live in for reclamation and to survive.
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