Month: April 2025

We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
by Mia Wenjen (Author) and Victor Bizar Gómez (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Music is a way to transcend cultures and divides. Simon Tam used his band’s name, The Slants®, to make a powerful statement that racist insults could no longer be hurtful to Asian Americans. But then the U.S. Trade and Patent Office tries to stop him. In his eight-year battle to win trademark protection, Simon would go all the way to the Supreme Court in a landmark case to rout out structural racism in our government systems.

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Nature Spy Guide
by Shelley Rotner (Author / Photographer)
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Booktalk: Children safely explore the outdoors using their five senses to search for colors, shapes, and more in the world around them.

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Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably
by Cecile Biccari (Author) and Naïade Lacolomb (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Nora finds a treasure and wonders what she should do with it: spend, invest, donate or save? After she explores each option in a comic, the book for ages 7-11 explains each choice in more detail.

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It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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Earth: Our Home Planet
by Bruce Betts (Author)
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Booktalk: The third planet from the Sun, Earth is our home and the only planet we know of that holds life. Learn how Earth and the Moon orbit the Sun together, how continents form, and how the atmosphere protects. Then learn how satellites show us how Earth will change in the future.

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It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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