Throughout our lives, humans learn and cultivate countless forms of literacy. Literacy helps us process and understand the world around us. Why then do we spend so much time emphasizing textual and/or numerical literacy while neglecting other forms, such as visual literacy? – To remedy this, I spoke with the talented artist and visual literacy…
What is Dark Academia? If you like academic settings, groups of morally ambiguous characters, and haunting mysteries, check out these dark academia novels from the Homewood Public Library! This newly popularized subgenre of literature focuses on the lives of students and the boundaries they are willing to push in their pursuits of greater knowledge. Knowledge…
I Must Betray You Ruta Sepetys Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu dreams of becoming a writer, but Romanians aren’t free to dream; they are bound by rules and force. Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the…
Magical Boy The Kao Although he was assigned female at birth, Max is your average trans man trying to get through high school as himself. But on top of classes, crushes, and coming out, Max’s life is turned upside down when his mom reveals an eons old family secret: he’s descended from a long line…
African Town Irene Lathan & Charles Waters Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama…
Bounce Back Misako Rocks! Lilico, with the help of her cat, must learn to adjust to a new country, a new school, and new pressures in this middle grade graphic novel from author/illustrator Misako Rocks! about finding your team and finding yourself. Friendship, a new school, and a bit of magic converge in this full-color…
