Chapter 16

Singin’ in the Rain

It’s not COVID; my throat is sore from singing all day

By Yurina Yoshikawa | February 25, 2022

I come from the country that invented karaoke. I still remember going to my first karaoke when I was in first grade, with my two friends from school and all of our moms. We went to eat ramen afterwards. It was a perfect day.

Grasshopper

First-prize winner in the Tennessee True Stories Essay Contest

By Yurina Yoshikawa | January 17, 2020

James was the only person I’d talked to in the first week of moving to Nashville, outside of my husband and the local coffee shop guy. We would be spending many hours together, just the two of us in this little car. I wanted him to like me.

And We Rise

By Erica Martin
Viking Books for Young Readers
160 pages
$17.99

“In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin’s debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement—from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with the “Separate but Equal” ruling—and introduces lesser-known figures and moments that were just as crucial to the Movement and our nation’s centuries-long fight for justice and equality.”

~ from the publisher