Frank X Walker’s A Is for Affrilachia, illustrated by upfromsumdirt, is a picture book for all ages.
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Affrilachia from A to Z
Frank X Walker’s new picture book pays tribute to Black life in Appalachia
Children & YA
A March to the Mountaintop
Alice Faye Duncan’s picture book tells the story of MLK’s last days in Memphis
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Alice Faye Duncan’s award-winning 2018 picture book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, offers children an account of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Poetry in Motion
A young girl connects with poetry during difficult times
Caroline Brooks DuBois’ second middle-grade novel tackles the healing power of poetry amid loss and destruction. DuBois will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 21.
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Everybody Has to Do Something
The effects of climate change endanger the lives of four teens
“Nature can take care of itself,” proclaims a climate change denier in Alan Gratz’s latest middle-grade thriller, Two Degrees. But by the end of the story, Gratz and his four teenage protagonists have made a strong case that the opposite is true. Alan Gratz will appear at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
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Sweet Dreams
In lyrical rhyme, Jessica Young’s I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams celebrates the parent-child bond
Jessica Young’s latest picture book, I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams, celebrates the parent-child bond, while simultaneously honoring children’s need to spread their wings. Young and illustrator Rafael López will celebrate the launch of I’ll Meet You in Your Dreams at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 9.
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Anything So Dangerous and Painful as Hope
Alan Gratz’s Ground Zero contrasts the terrors of 9/11 with a day in war-torn Afghanistan
In Ground Zero, possibly his most heart-wrenching middle-grade book yet, Knoxville native Alan Gratz weaves the terror of 9/11 and the pain of the ongoing war in Afghanistan into a story whose relentless pace and nonstop suspense ensure readers feel every bit of it. Gratz will discuss Ground Zero at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 12.
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