diversity – Elena Reads and Reviews

Review: Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry

Coretta Scott King Award winning book Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry is a compilation of stanzas and excerpts

You’ve probably read or heard about the bestselling novel The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. In her latest novel,

Seventh-grader Pippa is a funny, quirky, and kind young girl who earns a scholarship to a fancy private school because

Many kids like to make up their own languages, and communicate with their friends or siblings in their newfound dialect.

Note From Elena Reads: My younger brother has been really getting into the Big Nate graphic novel series, so I

Alex Reeve is a 23-year-old from St. Paul, Minnesota who loves books. Last year, she read 99 of them, and

I’m so excited I got chance to talk with award-winning author Jerry Craft. We discussed everything from getting kids to

Jerry Craft is back at it with another great graphic novel, Class Act. This book is a New Kid companion,

Alan Katz is the author of 50 books for young readers, including Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other

Many Jewish kids become a b’nai mitzvah at 13, but Debbie Reed Fischer had to wait until she was 18.