Akron Public Library

"Puedes ser mi novio". Solo se necesitan esas cuatro palabras para cambiar la vida de Guero al terminar septimo grado. El verano se torna mas ocupado a medida que aprende a equilibrar su tiempo entre las nuevas practicas con su antiguo grupo, Los Bobbys, y ser el novio de Joanna Padilla. La llaman "fregona" porque es fuerte, siempre defiende a su familia y mantiene a raya al bully de la escuela. Pero el Guero ve su dulzura interior. Juntos cocinan...

"What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's...

"America, do you love me? A single question from a single child multiplies across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color--and their questions"--

Presents the tale of yeoman Jedi Anakin Skywalker's struggles between light and dark in iambic pentameter.

A collection of familiar nursery rhymes. Each rhyme contains a highlighted word that is shown in English, Spanish, and French, along with a pronunciation guide. Suggested activities are also included.

"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.""

Graphic novelizations of five short stories by nineteenth-century American horror and mystery author Edgar Allan Poe.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to make everything from a tower to a charitable donation, alone or with neighbors.