Category: middle grade

Troublemakers in Trousers: Women and What They Wore to Get Things Done
by Sarah Albee (Author) and Kaja Kajfez (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Meet twenty-one women throughout history who broke fashion and norms to do something groundbreaking in this middle-grade collection that celebrates trailblazers and troublemakers.

Snippet: In ancient and medieval times, men did not wear pants. They wore dress-like attire. Go ahead and call it a tunic, toga, loincloth, chiton, kilt, sarong, or robes. Whatever. Men did not wear pants. (In many countries today, men still don’t.)

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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Africa Is Not a Country, 2nd Edition
by Mark Melnicove (Author), Margy Burns Knight (Author), Anne Sibley O’Brien (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Enter into the daily lives of children in the many countries of modern Africa. This middle grade book counters stereotypes and celebrates the diversity of this continent. The second edition includes updates to the text, statistics, and illustrations to reflect Africa in the 2020s.

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